Arturo J. Pacheco-Vega, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
California State University-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90032

Tel. (323) 343-4492
E-mail: apacheco@calstatela.edu

The following information has been posted for informational purposes only.

Journal Publications (Refereed) from 1998 to 2013.

Vilchiz-Bravo, L.E., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Handy, B.E., 2013, Sensor Placement in Temperature-Based Control Strategies to Improve Base-Line Stability in Tian-Calvet Microcalorimeters, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vol. 111, No. 1, pp. 857-867.

Pacheco J.R., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Chen, K.P., 2011, Mixing-Dynamics of a Passive Scalar in a Three-Dimensional Microchannel, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 959-966.

Vilchiz-Bravo, L.E., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Handy, B.E., 2010, Heat-Flow and Temperature Control in Tian-Calvet Microcalorimeters: Towards Higher Detection Limits, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 21, 115103, 8pp.

Avila, G., and Pacheco-Vega, A., 2009, Fuzzy-C-Means-Based Classification of Thremodynamic-Property Data: A Critical Assessment, Numerical Heat Transfer A, Vol. 56, No. 11, pp. 880-896.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Ruiz-Mercado, C., Peters, K., and Vilchiz, L.E., 2009, On-Line Fuzzy-Logic-Based Temperature Control of a Concentric-Tube Heat Exchanger Facility, Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 14, pp. 1208-1215.

Ruiz-Mercado, C., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Torres-Chavez G., 2009, A Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Dynamic Model of a Concentric-Tubes Heat Exchanger, Chemical Product and Process Modeling, Vol. 4, No. 2, Article 10, 22pp.

Pacheco J.R., Chen, K.P., Pacheco-Vega, A., Chen, B., and Hayes, M.A., 2008, Chaotic Mixing Enhancement in Electro-Osmotic Flows by Random Period Modulation, Physics Letters A, Vol. 372, No. 7, pp. 1001-1008.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Pacheco J.R., and Rodic, T., 2007, A General Scheme for the Boundary Conditions in Convective and Diffusive Heat Transfer with Immersed Boundary Methods, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, No. 11, pp. 1506-1516.

Cai, W., Pacheco-Vega, A., Sen, M., and Yang, K.T., 2006, Heat Transfer Correlations by Symbolic Regression, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 49, No. 23-24, pp. 4352-4359.

Vilchiz, L.E., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Handy, B.E., 2005, Heat-Flow Patterns in Tian-Calvet Microcalorimeters: Conductive, Convective, and Radiative Transport in Gas Dosing Experiments, Thermochimica Acta, Vol. 439, No. 1-2, pp. 110-118.

Pacheco, J.R., Pacheco-Vega, A., Rodic, T., and Peck, R.E., 2005, Numerical Simulations of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Problems Using an Immersed-Boundary Finite-Volume Method on Non-Staggered Grids, Numerical Heat Transfer B, Vol. 125, No. 2, pp. 365-374.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Sen, M., and Yang, K.T., 2003, Simultaneous Determination of In- and Over-Tube Heat Transfer Correlations in Heat Exchangers by Global Regression,, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 1029-1040.

Pacheco J.R. and Pacheco-Vega, A., 2003, Analysis of Thin Film Flows Using a Flux Vector Splitting, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 2, pp. 365-374.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Franco, W., Chang, H.-C., and Sen, M., 2002, Nonlinear Analysis of Tilted Toroidal Thermosyphon Models,, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 45, No. 7 pp. 1379-1391.

Pacheco J.R., Pacheco-Vega, A., and Pacheco-Vega, H.R., 2001, A Numerical Comparison between Spatial and Temporal Disturbances in a Pipe, Revista Mexicana de Física, , Vol. 47, No. 4 pp. 339-346.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Díaz, G., Sen, M., Yang, K.T., and McClain, R.L., 2001, Heat Rate Predictions in Humid Air-Water Heat Exchangers using Correlations and Artificial Neural Networks, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 348-354.

Pacheco-Vega, A., Sen, M., Yang, K.T., and McClain, R.L., 2001, Neural Network Analysis of Fin-Tube Refrigerating Heat Exchanger with Limited Experimental Data, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 763-770.

Other Refereed (Journal-Equivalent) Publications:

T. Hummel and A. Pacheco-Vega, 2012, Application of Karhunen-Loeve Expansions for the Dynamic Analysis of a Natural Convection Loop for Known Heat Flux,Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 395, No. 012121, 9pp.

A. Motamedi, A. Pacheco-Vega and J.R. Pacheco, 2012, Numerical Analysis of a Multi-Row Multi-Column Compact Heat Exchanger,Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 395, No. 012047, 10pp.

A. Pacheco-Vega, M. Sen, K.T. Yang, and R.L. McClain, 1998, Genetic-Algorithm-Based Predicitions of Fin-Tube Heat Exchanger Performance,Proceedings of the Eleventh International Heat Transfer Conference, Vol. 6, pp. 137-142.

Chapters in Books

A. Pacheco-Vega, 2011, Soft Computing Applications in Thermal Energy Systems, Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing), Vol. 269, Edited by: K. Gopalakrishnan, S.K. Khaitan, and S. Kalogirou, 1st. Ed, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1-35.

Conference and Symposium Papers in Proceedings (Refereed), currently updated from 1998 to 2001, and from 2010 to 2012.

U. Tohid, A. Pacheco-Vega, R. Tikhoplav and M. Ruelas, 2012, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Simulations of the Cooling-Water Channel in a Tera-hertz Radiation Detector, 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Paper No. ICNMM 2012-73272.

R. Medina, A. Motamedi, M. Okcay, U. Oztekin, G. Menezes and A. Pacheco-Vega, 2012, On the Implementation of Open Source CFD System to Flow Visualization in Fluid Mechanics, 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, San Antonio, TX, Paper No. AC 2012-5482.

R. Tikhoplav, G. Andonian, A. Pacheco-Vega, M. Ruelas, T. Shaftan and A. Sharif, 2011, Status of the Development of a Terahertz Camera, 36th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Houston, TX, USA, 2p.

R. Medina, M. Okcay, G. Menezes and A. Pacheco-Vega, 2011, Implementation of Particle Image Velocimetry in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Fresno, CA, USA, pp. 42-50.

A. Pacheco-Vega, L.E. Vilchiz-Bravo and B.E. Handy, 2010, PID-Based Thermal Control in Tian-Calvet Microcalorimeters: Toward Higher Sensitivities, 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Paper No. IMECE 2010-37093.

A. Pacheco-Vega, M. Sen, K.T. Yang and R.L. McClain, 2001, Correlations of Fin-Tube Heat Exchanger Performance Data Using Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing and Interval Methods, 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2001/HTD-24296.

A. Pacheco-Vega, M. Sen, K.T. Yang and R.L. McClain, 2000, Analysis of Fin-Tube Evaporator Performance with Limited Experimental Data using Artificial Neural Networks, 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, HTD Vol. 366-3, 2000, pp. 95-101.

J.R. Pacheco and A. Pacheco-Vega, 2000, The Solution of Viscous Incompressible Film Flows, 3rd. European Thermal Sciences Conference, Eds. E.W.P. Hahne, W. Heidemann, and K. Spindler, Vol. 1, pp. 269-274, Edizioni ETS.

K.T. Yang, M. Sen, G. Díaz, A. Pacheco-Vega and R.L. McClain, 2000, Coefficient of Heat Transfer in Fin-Tube Heat Exchanger Analysis and the Artificial Neural Networks, Symposium on Energy Engineering in the 21th Century, Ed. Ping Cheng, Vol. 3, pp. 940-948, Begell House Publishers, NY, USA.

J.R. Pacheco-Vega and A. Pacheco-Vega, 1999, The Solution of the 'Shallow-Water' Equations via Flux Vector Splitting Methods and 'Lambda' Schemes, Fifth Congress of the SOMIM, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, pp. 78-87 (in Spanish).

A. Pacheco-Vega, M. Sen, K.T. Yang and R.L. McClain, 1999, Prediction of Humid Air Heat Exchanger Performance using Artificial Neural Networks, 1999 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, HTD Vol. 364-3, pp. 307-314.

J.R. Pacheco-Vega, A. Pacheco-Vega and H.R. Pacheco-Vega, 1999, A Numerical Comparison between the Spatially-Growing and Temporally-Growing Disturbances in a Pipe, Fifth International Meeting of Mechanical Engineering, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., México, pp. 1-9.

A.J. Pacheco-Vega, J.R. Pacheco-Vega and A. Hernandez-Guerrero, 1998, Spectral Methods for the Solution of Differential Equations, Fourth International Meeting of Mechanical Engineering, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., México, pp. 204-216. (in Spanish).

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