M. Ertan Taskin
Post Doctoral Research Fellow

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1991, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1993, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2007, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

After taking his B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Chemical Engineering program at the Middle East Technical University, Ertan practiced engineering in industry. He worked mostly in the Turkish defense industry as a Research Engineer, Process Engineer and finally as a Project Coordinator.

In August 2003, Ertan joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute to work towards a Ph.D. in the Heat and Mass Transfer group. He worked on fixed-bed reactor applications, including verification of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, heat transfer and coupling of CFD and reaction engineering methodologies.

In August 2007, after defending his Ph.D. dissertation, "CFD Simulation of Transport and Reaction in Cylindrical Catalyst Particles", he spent 2 more months as a postdoctoral fellow in the same group.

In November 2007, Ertan joined the Artificial Organ Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where he mainly focused on CFD based optimization of cardiovascular devices in terms of fluid dynamics, gas transfer and biocompatibility features, including developing mathematical/numerical modeling approaches on oxygen/carbon-dioxide transfer, and hemolysis, platelet activation and thrombosis formation.

He has many published and podium/poster presented work in his field. The following are  selected publications where he is a primary author;

• M. E. Taskin, A. G. Dixon, E. H. Stitt and M. Nijemeisland, “Influence of Low Effectiveness Catalyst particles in Narrow Packed Tubes for Steam Reforming Using CFD with Reaction Heat Effects”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. (2008).
• M. E. Taskin, A. G. Dixon and E. H. Stitt, “CFD Study of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Fixed Bed of Cylinders”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 52, 203-218 (2007).
• M. E. Taskin, A. G. Dixon, E. H. Stitt and M. Nijemeisland, “Approximation of Reaction Heat Effects in Cylindrical Catalyst Particles with Internal Voids Using CFD”, Int. J. Chem. Reactor Eng., Vol. 5, A41 (2007).

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