Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
| Phone: | 848-445-4391 |
| Email: | denda@rutgers.edu |
| Office: | ENG B-219 |
Office Hours: By appointment
Website: Mitsunori (Mitch) Denda
Education
- Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Harvard University, 1983
- M.S., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1978
- M.E., Architecture, Kyoto University, Japan, 1975
- B.E., Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 1973e
Research Interests
Aerial micro vehicles based on the flight study of flapping insects. We study the anatomy of insects and take high speed videos of flapping insects to produce 3D CAD models of insects and animations of their flight, which in tern are used as the input of fluid structure interaction analysis of insect flight. In addition, driving mechanism used by insects in flapping wings are studied. The outcome of these investigations is used in the bottom-up design of flapping aerial micro vehicles.
Selected Publications
- D. Ishihara, T. Horie and M. Denda (2009). A two-dimensional computational study on the fluid–structure interaction cause of wing pitch changes in dipteran flapping flight, Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 212(1), pp. 1-10.
- E. Pan, Y. Zhang, P.W. Chung and M. Denda (2008). Strain energy on the surface of an anisotropic half-space substrate: effect of quantum-dot shape and depth, CMES, Vol. 24(3), pp. 157-167.
- M. Denda (2008).BEM analysis of semipermeable piezoelectric cracks, Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 383, pp. 67-84.
- M. Denda (2008). The boundary element analysis of multiple piezoelectric cracks with impermeable, permeable and semi-permeable electric boundary conditions, Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Methods in Engineering (JASCOME) , Vol. 7(2), pp. 129-177.
- J.H. Hsieh, M. Denda, J. Redond, M.E. Marante and J. Florez-Lopez (2008). Electronic Handbook of Fracture: A Java-based boundary element program for fracture analysis of multiple curvilinear cracks in the general anisotropic solids, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 39(5), pp. 395-406.
- M. Denda (2007), Hybrid Green 's functions for multiple cracks: Numerical extension of single crack analytical Green's functions to multiple cracks,Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements , Vol. 5(2), pp. 41-68.
- C.-Y. Wang and M. Denda (2007), 3D-BEM for general anisotropic elasticity, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 44(22-23), pp. 7073-7091.
- Wang, C.-Y., Denda, M. and Pan, E. (2006). Analysis of quantum dots induced strain and electric-field in piezoelectric semiconductor substrate of general anisotropy. International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43(25-26), pp. 7593-7608.
- Denda, M. (2005). 2D Fundamental Solutions for the General Anisotropic Solids with Computer Codes. Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements, Vol. 3(1), pp. 14-24.
- Denda, M. and Mansukh, M. (2005). Upper and lower bounds analysis of electric induction intensity factors for multiple piezoelectric cracks by the BEM. International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Element, Vol. 29(6), pp. 533-550.