Dr. Elon Terrell
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests
Fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermodynamics, heat transfer, energy systems, and tribology (friction, lubrication, and wear between contacting/sliding surfaces).
Teaching
- EGR 1301: Introduction to Engineering
- ME 2320: Statics
- ME 2345: Thermodynamics
- ME 3145: Thermal-Fluids Laboratory
- ME 3345: Advanced Thermodynamics
- ME 4339: Tribology
- ME 4345: Heat Transfer
Publications
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Marko, M. D., Kyle, J. P., Wang, Y., and Terrell, E. J., 2017, “Tribological investigations of the load, temperature, and time dependence of wear in sliding contact,” PLOS One, 12(4), e0175198.
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Marko, M., Kyle, J., Wang, Y., Branson, B., and Terrell, E. J., 2016, “Numerical and experimental tribological investigations of diamond nanoparticles,” Journal of Tribology, 138(3), 032001-1– 8.
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Marko, M., Branson, B., Kyle, J. P., and Terrell, E. J., 2015, “Tribological improvements of dispersed nano-diamond additives in lubricating mineral oil,” Journal of Tribology, 137(1), 011802-1 – 7.
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He, X., Xiao, H., Kyle, J., Terrell, E. J., and Liang, H., 2014, “Two-dimensional nanostructured Y2O3 particles for fluid modification,” Applied Physics Letters, 104(16), 163107-1 – 4.
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Kyle, J. P., and Terrell, E. J., 2013, “Application of smoothed particle hydrodynamics to full-film lubrication,” Journal of Tribology, 135(4), 041705-1 - 9.
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Sandoz-Rosado, E. J and Terrell, E. J., 2013, “The role of contact adhesion in friction and wear of graphene under sliding conditions,” Proceedings of Materials Research Society, vol. 1505, mrsf12-1505-w22-02.
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Wang, Y., and Terrell, E. J., 2013, “Influence of coating thickness and substrate elasticity on the tribological performance of PEEK coatings,” Wear, 303(1-2), 255-261.
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Constantine, D. A., Wang, Y., and Terrell, E. J., 2013, “Effect of reciprocation frequency on friction and wear of vibrating contacts lubricated with soybean-based B100 biodiesel,” Tribology Letters, 50(2), 279-285.
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Sandoz-Rosado, E.J., Tertuliano, O. A., and Terrell, E. J., 2012, “An atomistic study of the abrasive wear and failure of graphene sheets when used as a solid lubricant and a comparison to diamond-like-carbon coatings,” Carbon, 50(11), pp. 4078-4084.
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Terrell, E. J., Needleman, W. M., and *Kyle, J. P., 2011, “Wind Turbine Tribology,” in M. Nosonovsky and B. Bhushan (eds.), Green Tribology – Biomimetics, Energy Conservation, and Sustainability, New York: Springer.
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Comes, R. C., Terrell, E. J., and Higgs, C. F., 2010, “Pad deflection-based model of chemical mechanical polishing for use in CAD IC layout,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 23(1), pp. 121 - 131.
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Terrell, E. J., Comes, R. B., and Higgs, C. F., 2010, “Analysis of feature-scale wear in chemical mechanical polishing: modeling and experiments,” Tribology Letters, 37(2), pp. 327 - 336.
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Terrell, E. J., Kabir, M. A., and Higgs, C. F., 2009, “Contact stress analysis of lightly compressed thin films: modeling and experimentation”, Journal of Applied Physics, 105(12), pp. 124907-1 – 124907-6.
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Terrell, E. J., and Higgs III, C. F., 2009, “A particle-augmented mixed lubrication approach to predicting chemical mechanical polishing”, Journal of Tribology, 131(1), pp. 012201 - 012210.
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Chaudhuri, S., Kumar, R., Joshi, M., Terrell, E., Higgs, F., Aleven, V., and Rose, C. P., 2008, “It’s not easy being green: Supporting collaborative ‘Green Design’ learning,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5091, pp. 807-809.
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Terrell, E. J., and Higgs III, C. F., 2007, “A modeling approach for predicting the abrasive particle motion during chemical mechanical polishing,” Journal of Tribology, 129 (4), pp. 933 - 941.
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Terrell, E. J., Kuo, M., and Higgs III, C. F., 2007, “An approach to modeling particle-based and contact-based wear in CMP,” Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium, 991.
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Higgs III, C. F., Terrell, E. J., Kuo, M., Bonivel, J., and Biltz, S., 2007, “On a particle-augmented mixed lubrication approach to predicting CMP,” Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium, 991.
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Terrell, E. J., and Higgs III, C. F., 2007, “A simulation of contaminates around the solid immersion lens in a near field optical recording system,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 43 (3), pp. 1086 - 1092.
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Terrell, E. J., and Higgs III, C. F., 2006, “Hydrodynamics of slurry flow in chemical mechanical polishing: a review,” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 153 (6), pp. K15 - K22.