Andrey Kuznetsov
Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-5292
- Email: avkuznet@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3258
Dr. Kuznetsov is interested in developing models of electrically charged monolith filters capable of capturing viruses.
At the graduate level, Dr. Kuznetsov teaches Heat Transfer Theory and Applications (MAE 505) and Advanced Convective heat Transfer (MAE 708). In both of these courses, he presents real-life problems that have unexpected solutions. For example, he once told his students the true story of a problem that several Cosmonauts faced when first arriving at an uninhabited space station. The station was without power and its interior was very cold. They needed to know precisely the temperature in the station but did not have any devices to measure temperature. So, one of the Cosmonaut’s spit on a wall and measured with a watch the time it took for it to freeze. Stories like this demonstrate how physical principles solve problems in unexpected ways and bring the material to life.
At the undergraduate level, Dr. Kuznetsov teaches Fluid Mechanics I (MAE 308) and Heat Transfer (MAE 310). He complements the fundamental treatment with videos showing different effects and a lot of modern topics, like a discussion on why biological cells dehydrate when they freeze and the wonderful properties of superfluid liquid helium.
Dr. Kuznetsov’s students, like himself, are more than anything else obsessed with modeling fluid-thermal systems, which fosters a stimulating research environment. In fact, Dr. Kuznetsov’s graduate students, after first working with him, are often surprised and pleased to discover that he treats them as colleagues. They enjoy an atmosphere of stimulating discussions on competing ideas. The biotechnology focus of the research also makes the subject particularly interesting.
Outside of work, Dr. Kuznetsov spends time with his family.
Publications
- Lewy body radius growth: The hypothesis of the cube root of time dependency
- Kuznetsov, A. V. (2024), JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111734
- Numerical and Analytical Simulation of the Growth of Amyloid-β Plaques
- Kuznetsov, A. V. (2024), JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 146(6). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064969
- Numerical modeling of senile plaque development under conditions of limited diffusivity of amyloid-β monomers
- Kuznetsov, A. V. (2024), JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111823
- The growth rate of senile plaques is determined by the competition between the rate of deposition of free Aβ aggregates into plaques and the autocatalytic production of free Aβ aggregates
- V. Kuznetsov, A. (2024), JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, 593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111900
- ATP diffusional gradients are sufficient to maintain bioenergetic homeostasis in synaptic boutons lacking mitochondria
- Kuznetsov, I. A., & Kuznetsov, A. V. (2023, March 5), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3696
- Absorption rate governs cell transduction in dry macroporous scaffolds
- VanBlunk, M., Srikanth, V., Pandit, S. S., Kuznetsov, A. V., & Brudno, Y. (2023, January 26), BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2bm01753a
- Dynein Dysfunction Prevents Maintenance of High Concentrations of Slow Axonal Transport Cargos at the Axon Terminal: A Computational Study
- Kuznetsov, I. A., & Kuznetsov, A. V. (2023), JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 145(7). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056915
- Effect of mitochondrial circulation on mitochondrial age density distribution
- Kuznetsov, I. A., & Kuznetsov, A. V. (2023, September 9), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3770
- Flow Regimes and Types of Solid Obstacle Surface Roughness in Turbulent Heat Transfer Inside Periodic Porous Media
- Srikanth, V., Peverall, D., & Kuznetsov, A. V. (2023, July 1), TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-023-01978-6
- Mitochondrial transport in symmetric and asymmetric axons with multiple branching junctions: a computational study
- Kuznetsov, I. A., & Kuznetsov, A. V. (2023, June 22), COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2023.2226787
Grants
- A Microscale Study of Turbulent Flow in the Porous Medium and at the Porous/Fluid Interface: Combining LES, DNS, and Neural Network Approaches
- Porous Materials to Transform Cellular Genetic Reprogramming
- EAGER: Exploratory Research on DNS Modeling of Turbulent Heat Transfer in Porous Media
- Computational Investigation And Optimization Of Monolith Filters For Air Filtration And Purification To Counteract A Potential Bacteriological Terrorist Attack
- Modeling of Flow Containing Nanoparticles Through Electrostatically Charged Monolith Filters
- Simulation of Unsteady Reacting Flows in Pulsejets with Ejectors
- Enhancing Mixing in Micro Volumes of Fluid by Utilizing Bioconvection