Email
vadim@wpi.edu
Office
Stratton Hall 104C
Phone
+1 (508) 8315000 x5495
Education
MS Saratov State University 1979
PhD Institute of Radio Engineering & Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1991
My professional interests include electromagnetic and multiphysics modeling, scientific computations, and optimization in various interdisciplinary areas involving high frequency electromagnetics. I am particularly interested in applications of microwave power engineering as well as microwave imaging (i.e., non-destructive evaluation and testing of materials from the characteristics of the electromagnetic field). I run the Industrial Microwave Modeling Group (IMMG), which I established in 1999 as a division of WPI’s Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics (CIMS). This structure allows me to enrich traditional research activities by direct interaction with the real world – with engineers, practitioners, and industrialists.
Oftentimes, people involved in development of related technologies do not have adequate support from mathematical and computer models and do not use modern resources for virtual prototyping. My group is focused on remedying this problem, cooperating with a wide range of institutions (from global corporations to small businesses) – especially, in recent years, the food industry and technologies related to materials science.
Students joining IMMG activities never do their projects just in order to stay busy and earn a grade; student work is designed as an integral (incremental or principal) part of our programs at-large. This approach opens the door for early interaction with industry, publications, and other outreach practice, allowing the students to gain important experience facilitating their upcoming postgraduate emergence into a complex world.
Research Interests
Computational electromagnetics
Multiphysics modeling
Numerical optimization
Microwave imaging
Microwave power engineering
Scholarly Work
E.K. Murphy and V.V. Yakovlev, Neural network optimization of complex microwave structures with a reduced number of full-wave analyses, Intern. J. of RF & Microwave Computer-Aided Engng, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 279-287, 2011.
M.T. Porter, J. Binner, M.K. Cinibulk, K.E. Stern, and V.V. Yakovlev, Computational characterization of microwave heating of fibre preforms for CVI of SiCf/SiC composites, J. of European Ceramic Society, 2023, doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.12.035.
C.M. Hogan, B.W. Hoff, I.M. Rittersdorf, and V.V. Yakovlev, Computational characterization of millimeter-wave heat exchangers with an AlN:Mo susceptor of multiple cylindrical elements, J. Microwave Power & Electromagnetic Energy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 18–36, 2022.
J.M. Gaone, B.S. Tilley, and V.V. Yakovlev, High-frequency homogenization for electromagnetic heating of periodic media, SIAM J. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1285-1309. 2021.
A.A. Mohekar, B.S. Tilley, and V.V. Yakovlev, A triple layer electromagnetic heat exchanger with plane Poiseuille flow: control and local onset of thermal runaway, IEEE J. on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, vol. 5, pp. 119-131. 2020.
S. Vaucher, V.V. Yakovlev, and H. Yeung, Materials with required dielectric properties: computational development and production of polymer-ceramic composites, Polymer Engineering and Science, vol. 58, pp. 319–326, 2018.
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