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Andrew Gerber 

Professor

BScE (UNB), PhD (UNB)

Office: E-45B
Tel: (506) 458-7194
Fax: (506) 453-5025
E-mail

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Mechanics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Multiphase Flows

Selected Publications

  • A.G. Gerber, “Inhomogeneous Multi-Fluid Model for Nonequilibrium Phase Transition and Droplet Dynamics”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, accepted for publication (May 2007).
  • A.G. Gerber, R. Sigg, L. Völker, M.V. Casey, N. Sürken, Predictions of nonequilibrium phase transition in a model low pressure steam turbine, Journal of Power and Energy, accepted for publication (April 2007).
  • A.G. Gerber and A. Mousavi, “Representing Polydispersed Droplet Behavior in Nucleating Steam Flow”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, accepted for publication (Jan. 2007).
  • A.G. Gerber, A.G.L. Holloway and C. Ng, “A CFD Model of the Unsteady Response of a Backward-Facing Compliant Step”, Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Fluids, in press (2007).
  • A.G. Gerber and A. Mousavi, “Application of the Quadrature-Method-of-Moments to the Polydispersed Droplet Spectrum in Transonic Steam Flows with Primary and Secondary Nucleation”, J. Appl. Math. Modelling, 2007, Vol. 31, pp. 1518-1533.
  • M.J. Kermani, A.G. Gerber and J.M. Stockie, “An Application of Roe’s High Resolution Scheme to Transonic Two-phase flow Through a Nozzle”, Iranian J. of Mechanical Eng.: Transactions of the ISME, vol. 7, No. 1, 2006.
  • A.G. Gerber, R. Dubay and A. Healy, “CFD Based Predictive Control of Melt Temperature in Plastic Injection Molding”, Applied Mathematical Modeling, accepted for publication in May 2005.
  • A.G. Gerber, “Heat and Mass Transfer Predictions of the Early Contact of a Liquid Metal on an Intensely Cooled Moving Substrate”, Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2005, Vol. 48, pp. 2722-2734.
  • S. Ji, A.G. Gerber and A.C.M. Sousa, “Sediment Transport Equation for Air Flow Over Loose Boundaries”, Int. Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2004, Vol. 45, pp. 797-817.
  • A.G. Gerber and M.J. Kermani, “A Pressure Based Eulerian-Eulerian Multiphase Model for Condensation in Transonic Steam Flows”, Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2004, Vol. 47, pp. 2217-2231.
  • Gerber, A.G., Ng, C. and Gallerneault, M., “Surface-Oriented Melt/Substrate Heat Transfer Model in Aluminum Strip Casting”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2004, Vol. 35B, pp. 351-361.
  • H. A. Kishawy, and A. G. Gerber, “Characteristics of Heat Transfer During Machining With Rotary Tools”, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 2004, Vol. 126, pp. 404-407.
  • Bakir, F., Gerber, A.G., Belamri, T. and Hutchinson, B. “Numerical and Experimental Investigations of the Cavitating Behavior of an Inducer”, International Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2004, Vol.10, No. 1, pp. 15-25.
  • Kermani, M. J., and Gerber, A. G., “A General Formula for the Evaluation of Thermodynamic and Aerodynamic Losses in Nucleating Steam Flow”, Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, No. 17, August 2003, pp. 3265-3278.
  • A.G. Gerber, "Two-Phase Lagrangian/Eulerian Model for Nucleating Steam Flow", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 465-475.
  • A.G. Gerber, “Nonequilibrium Droplet Interactions in Rapidly Expanding Steam Flow”, Turbomachinery (journal published by the Turbomachinery Society of Japan), 2000, No. 12, pp. 45 - 48.