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    İlker Tarı
    Asst. Prof. Dr.
    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Middle East Technical University
    06531 Ankara, Turkey

    Phone: +90 (312) 210 2551
    Fax: +90 (312) 210 2536
    itari@metu.edu.tr


    T E A C H I N G
    • ME 203 Thermodynamics I
    • ME 305 Fluid Mechanics I
    • ME 306 Fluid Mechanics II
    • ME 310 Numerical Methods
    • ME 311 Heat Transfer
    • ME 312 Thermal Engineering
    • ME 421 Steam Generator and Heat Exchanger Design
    • ME 508 Thermal Radiation

    R E S E A R C H
    • Radiative Transfer
    • Electronics Cooling
    • Computational Heat Transfer
    • Computational Incompressible Fluid Dynamics
    • Microchannel Flows
    • Heat Exchanger Design
    • Fuel Cells
    • Solar Energy

    L I N K S
    • Dr. Sibel Tari's Page
    • METU Library
    • Linux Users Group in Turkey


    EDUCATION

  • Hacettepe University, B.S. in Nuclear Energy Engineering.
  • University of Michigan, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Engineer Degree and S.M. in Engineering.
  • Northeastern University, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.

    THESES SUPERVISED

  • Emre Öztürk, M.S. Thesis, 2004, "CFD Analyses of Heat Sinks for CPU Cooling with Fluent".
  • Cenk Evren Kükrer, M.S. Thesis, 2005, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Liquid Flow in a Horizontal Microchannel".
  • Serkan Kasapoglu, M.S. Thesis, 2005, "A Pseudospectral Analysis of Laminar Natural Convection Flow and Heat Transfer between Two Inclined Parallel Plates".
  • Tugrul Maral, M.S. Thesis, 2006, "Spectral (h-p) Element Methods Approach to the Solution of Poisson and Helmholtz Equations using MATLAB", co-supervised by Dr. Sert.
  • Ethem Ersöz, M.S. Thesis, 2006, "Development of a Racing Strategy for a Solar Car".
  • Ömer Emre Orhan, M.S. Thesis, 2007, "Numerical Investigation on Cooling of Small Form Factor Computer Cases".
  • Bora Timurkutluk, M.S. Thesis, 2007, "Performance Analysis of an Intermediate Temperature SOFC", co-supervised by Dr. Mat.
  • Ender Özden, M.S. Thesis, 2007, "Detailed Design of Shell-and-tube Heat Exchangers Using CFD".
  • Sinan Küçük, M.S. Thesis, 2007, "A Comparative Investigation of Heat Transfer Capacity Limits of Heat Pipes".
  • Fidan Seza Yalçin, M.S. Thesis, 2008, "CFD Analysis of a Notebook Computer Thermal Management Solution", co-supervised by Dr. Sert.

    RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Fidan Seza Yalçin, Cüneyt Sert and Ilker Tari, "CFD Analysis of a Notebook Computer Thermal Management Solution", Proc. ASME Heat Transfer Conference, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Ender Özden and Ilker Tari, "CFD Modeling and Analysis of a Small Shell-and-tube Heat Exchanger", Proc. ASME Heat Transfer Conference, August 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville, FL.
  • Ilker Tari, "A Comparison of the Common Semi-Implicit Time Stepping Schemes in a Spectral Method Navier-Stokes Solver: ABCN, ABBDI2, MABCN and Leap Frog", SIAM Annual Meeting, July 7-11, 2008, San Diego, CA.
  • Emre Öztürk and Ilker Tari, "Forced Air Cooling of CPUs with Heat Sinks: a Numerical Study", IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, accepted for publication (2008).
  • Ömer Emre Orhan and Ilker Tari, "Numerical Investigation on Cooling of Small Form Factor Computer Cases", Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, accepted for publication (2008).
  • Emre Öztürk and Ilker Tari, "CFD Modelling of Forced Cooling of Computer Chassis", Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 304-313 (2007).
  • Ömer Emre Orhan and Ilker Tari, "Numerical Investigation on Cooling of Small Form Factor Computer Cases", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, November 11-15, 2007, Seattle, WA.
  • Ilker Tari, "A Comparison of Common Semi-Implicit Time Stepping Schemes in a Pseudo-spectral Navier-Stokes Solver: ABCN, ABBDI2 and MABCN", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, November 11-15, 2007, Seattle, WA.
  • Ilker Tari, "Numerical Determination of Critical Tilt Angle for a Parallel Plate Channel", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, November 11-15, 2007, Seattle, WA.
  • Ilker Tari, "Numerical Investigation of Laminar Microchannel Convective Liquid Flow as a Mixing Enhancer in Microfluidic Devices", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, November 11-15, 2007, Seattle, WA.


    Last updated: June 30, 2008