Seminar: Sandip Mazumder, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Presenter: Sandip Mazumder, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Topic: The Science behind Global Warming: Separating Fact from Fiction

"This seminar aims to answer the following questions: (1) why is CO2 considered so hazardous for global warming? (2) Why is H2O, which is also termed a greenhouse gas by environmental scientists, considered benign by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? (3) Why is the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere such a concern from a global warming perspective?"

About the speaker
Professor Mazumder graduated with a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1997. After graduation he joined CFD Research Corporation, where he was one of the architects and early developers of the commercial computational fluid dynamics code CFD-ACE+. In 2004 he joined The Ohio State University, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, numerical methods and computational fluid dynamics. He is the author of a graduate-level textbook on numerical solution of partial dierential equations and over fifty journal papers, which have been cited more than two thousand times. Mazumder is the recipient of several research and teaching awards, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

*This seminar may substitute for the ME 8888 mechanical engineering graduate student requirement. Students need to seek the approval of their advisor.

Join faculty, staff, visiting scholars and graduate students to learn about this topic. Held in the classroom/room 198 at the Center for Automotive Research. Follow the conversation online: #CARSeminarSeries.