Gregory M. Shaver
Assistant Professor
Herrick Labs & Energy Center at Discovery Park
School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
gshaver@purdue.edu
Phone: 765-494-9342
Fax: 765-494-0787
Degrees:
BSME (Purdue '00)
MSME (Stanford '04)
PhD (Stanford '05)
Research Interests
- Modeling and control of advanced combustion processes and engine technologies
- Powertrain control strategies that enable the efficient and clean use of conventional fuels, coal-derived fuels, and biofuels.
Research Team
- Modeling and control of advanced combustion processes and engine technologies
- Powertrain control strategies that enable the efficient and clean use of conventional fuels, coal-derived fuels, and biofuels.
Research Team
Gayatri Adi - MSME, PhD
Carrie Hall - direct PhD
Chris Satkoski - MSME
David Snyder - direct PhD
Karla Stricker - MSME
Dan van Alstine - direct PhD
Lyle Kocher - direct PhD
Ed Koeberlein - MSME
Whitney Belt - MSME
Journal Publications & Book Chapters
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, Patrick A. Caton and Christopher F. Edwards, Dynamic Modeling of HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 374-381, 2005 (Selected as the best paper published in the J. of Dyn. Sys., Meas. and Control, 2005)
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, Modeling Cycle-to-Cycle Dynamics and Mode Transition in HCCI Engines with Variable Valve Actuation, IFAC Journal on Control Engineering Practice (CEP), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 213-222, 2006
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, Jean-Pierre Hathout, Jasim Ahmed, Aleksandar Kojic, Patrick A. Caton and Christopher F. Edwards, A Physics-Based Approach to Control of HCCI Engines with Variable Valve Actuation, International Journal of Engine Research, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 361-375(15), July 2005
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Physics-based Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Volume 131, Issue 2, 2009
Gregory M. Shaver, Enabling Simultaneous Reductions in Fuel Consumption, NOx, and CO2 via Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected Low Temperature Combustion, Chapter in: Emerging Environmental Technologies, Springer 2008
Gregory M. Shaver, Stability Analysis of Residual-Affected HCCI using Convex Optimization, IFAC Cntl. Engr. Practice Spec. Issue – Adv. in Auto. Control, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 1454-1460
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Steady-state Biodiesel Blend Estimation via a Wideband Oxygen Sensor, The ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 131, no. 4, July 2009
Anup Kuklarni, Sriram S. Popuri, Gregory M. Shaver, Tim R. Frazier, and Donald W. Stanton, Computationally Efficient Whole-Engine Model of a Cummins 2007 Turbocharged Diesel Engine, The ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, February 2010, Volume 132, Issue 2
Aman Yadav, Gregory M. Shaver, and Peter Meckl, Lessons learned: Implementing the case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course, Journal of Engineering Education, Jan. 2010, 99(1), 55-69.
Anup Kuklarni, Karla Stricker, Angieline Blum, and Gregory M. Shaver, PCCI Control Authority of a Modern Diesel Engine Outfitted with Flexible Intake Valve Actuation, To appear in: The ASME J. of Dyn. Systems, Measurement and Control
Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, David Snyder, Mike Bunce, Chris Satkoski, Shankar Kumar, Phanindra Garimella, Donald Stanton and Gregory M. Shaver, Soy-Biodiesel Impact on NOx Emissions and Fuel Economy for Diffusion Dominated Combustion in a Turbo-Diesel Engine Incorporating EGR and Common Rail Fuel Injection, Energy and Fuels, 23 (12), pp 5821–5829, 2009
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Mike Bunce, Chris Satkoski, and Gregory M. Shaver, Fuel Blend Fraction Estimation for Fuel-Flexible Combustion Control: Uncertainty Analysis, IFAC Control Engineering Practice, Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 418-432
Mike Bunce, David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Jereym Koehler, Bernie Davila, Shank Kumar, Phanindra Garimella, Don Stanton, and Greg Shaver, Stock and Optimized Performance and Emissions with 5 and 20% Soy-Biodiesel Blends in a Modern Common Rail Turbo-Diesel Engine, Energy & Fuels, Energy Fuels, 2010, 24 (2), pp 928–939
Chris Satkoski, Greg Shaver, Piezoelectric Fuel Injection - Pulse-to-Pulse Coupling and Flow Rate Estimation, to appear in: ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
Chris Satkoski, Greg Shaver, Ranjit More, Peter Meckl, Douglas Memering, Shankar Venkataraman, Jalal Syed, and Jesus Carmon-Valdes, Dynamic Modeling of a Piezoelectric Actuated Fuel Injector, to appear in: ASME J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control
Michael Bunce, David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Jeremy Koehler, Bernabe Davila, Phanindra Garimella, Shankar Kumar, Donald Stanton, and Gregory M. Shaver, Optimization of Soy-Biodiesel Combustion in a Modern Diesel Engine, Submitted to Fuel, 3-2009
Rajani Modiyani, Lyle Kocher, Dan Van Alstine, Ed Koeberlein, Karla Stricker, Paul Meckl, and Gregory M. Shaver, Effect of Intake Valve Closure Modulation on Effective Compression Ratio and Gas Exchange in Modern, Multi-Cylinder Diesel Engines. Submitted to the International Journal of Engine Research, 4-2010
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Michael Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Closed-loop Control Framework for Fuel-Flexible Combustion of Biodiesel Blends, submitted to the Energy and Fuels, 4-2010.
Conference Proceedings
Mike Bunce, David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Bernie Davila, and Gregory M. Shaver, Optimization of the performance and emissions of soy biodiesel blends in a modern diesel engine, To appear at the 2010 ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference, September 12-15, 2010, San Antonio, TX, USA
Christopher Satkoski and Gregory M. Shaver, Design of a Dynamic Fuel Flow Estimator For a Piezoelectric Fuel Injector, 6th IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control, Munich – Schwabing, Germany, July 12-14, 2010.
David Snyder, Gayatri Adi, Michael Bunce, Carrie Hall, and Gregory M. Shaver, Dynamic exhaust oxygen based biodiesel blend estimation with an extended Kalman filter, to appear at the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD on June 30-July 02, 2010
Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, David Snyder, Michael Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Clean and Efficient Fuel-Flexible Combustion of Alternative Diesel Fuels via Closed-Loop Control, 2nd Intl. Conf. and Exhibition on Advances in Energy Research, 12/2009, IIT Bombay
Chris Satkoski, Gregory M. Shaver, Ranjit More, Peter Meckl, and Douglas Memering, Dynamic Modeling of a Piezo-electric Actuated Fuel Injector, IFAC Workshop on Engine and Powertrain Control Simulation and Modeling, 11/30-12/2/2009, IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France
Anup Kulkarni, Gayatri Adi, Sriram S. Popuri, Gregory M. Shaver, Tim R. Frazier, and Donald W. Stanton, Development and validation of a flexible and computationally efficient whole engine model of a Cummins 2007 turbocharged diesel engine, 2009 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 2009
Anup Kulkarni, Karla Stricker, Angieline Blum, and Gregory M. Shaver, PCCI control authority of a modern diesel engine outfitted with flexible intake valve actuation, 2009 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, Florence, Italy, June 2009
Gayatri Adi, Carrie Hall, Mike Bunce, David Snyder, and Gregor M. Shaver, Capturing experimentally observed, biodiesel induced increases of fuel consumption and NOx with a physics-based whole engine model, To appear at the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division 2009 Spring Technical Conference, Milwaukee, Wisonsin, May 2009
Aman Yadav and Gregory M. Shaver, Comparing the lecture method with case teaching method in a mechanical engineering course, ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX June 2009
David B. Snyder, Gayatri H. Adi, Michael P. Bunce, and Gregory M. Shaver, Uncertainty Analysis of Wideband Oxygen Sensor Based Strategy for Steady-State Biodiesel Blend Estimation, To appear at the 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-22, 2008
David B. Snyder, Elena G. Washington, Armando P. Indrajuana, and Gregory M. Shaver, Biodiesel Blend Estimation via a Wideband Oxygen Sensor, To appear at the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008
Anup Kulkarni, Gayatri Adi, and Gregory M. Shaver, Modeling Cylinder-to-Cylinder Coupling in Multi-Cylinder HCCI Engines Incorporating Reinduction, 2007 ASME IMECE, IMECE2007-42487, November 2007, Seattle WA
Aman Yadav, Peter Meckl, and Gregory M. Shaver. Comparing the lecture method with case method in a mechanical engineering course. Annual meeting of American Society for Engineering Education, Pittsburg, PA.
Megan Arnold, Aman Yadav, Eric Nauman, and Gregory M Shaver, G. Measuring student perceptions of case-based instruction: Development of a Survey. Annual meeting of American Society for Engineering Education, Pittsburg, PA.
Gregory M. Shaver, Stability Analysis of Residual-Affected HCCI using Convex Optimization, In the Proceedings of the IFAC Advances in Automotive Control Symposium, Summer 2007, Aptos, CA
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, A 2-Input, 2-State Model of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines, 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew J. Roelle, J. Christian Gerdes, Decoupled Control of Combustion Timing and Peak Pressure on an HCCI Engine, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3871-3876 2005, Portland, Oregon
Matthew Roelle, Gregory M. Shaver, and J. Christian Gerdes, Tackling the Transition: A Multi-mode Combustion Model of SI and HCCI for Mode Transition Control, Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, California
Gregory M. Shaver, Aleksandar Kojic, J. Christian Gerdes, Jean-Pierre Hathout, and Jasim Ahmed, Contraction and Sum of Squares Analysis of HCCI Engines, In the Proceedings of the 2004 IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Gregory M. Shaver, J. Christian Gerdes and Matthew Roelle, Physics-Based Closed-Loop Control of Phasing, Peak Pressure and Work Output in HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, In the Proceeding of the American Control Conference, 2004, Pages 150-155, Denver, Co.
Gregory M. Shaver, Matthew Roelle and J. Christian Gerdes, Modeling Cycle-to-Cycle Coupling in HCCI Engines Utilizing Variable Valve Actuation, In the Proceedings of the 1st IFAC Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control, 2004, Pages 244-249, Salerno, Italy
Gregory M. Shaver and J. Christian Gerdes, Cycle-to-cycle control of HCCI Engines, In the Proceeding of the 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2003-41966, Washington D.C.
Gregory M. Shaver, J. Christian Gerdes, Parag Jain and P.A. Caton and C.F. Edwards, Modeling for Control of HCCI Engines. In the Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2003, Pages 749-754, Denver
Research Sponsors
Equipment and Fuel Donations from
Application: Apparatus and Method for Computer Modeling Chemical Sensitivity of Skin, Serial No. 11/854,421, filed on 9/12/2007, S. Bajaria, C. Friedrich, K. Kudrycki, C. MacKay, T. Paterson, D. Polidori, S. Ramanujan, and G. Shaver Application: Biofuel Blend Sensor, Application Number: 61/085,608, Provisional Filing date: 8/1/2008, Conversion deadline: 8/1/2009, G. Shaver and D. Snyder, Full application filed 9/1/2009 Provisional: Flow Rate Estimation for Piezo-Electric Fuel Injection, Application Number: 61/285,835, Provisional Filing date: 12/11/2000, G. Shaver and C. Satkoski Provisional: Methods for Controlling Combustion of Blended Biofuels, Application Number: 61/291,383, Provisional Filing date: 12/31/2009, G. Shaver, D. Snyder, C. Hall, G. Adi, and M. Bunce
Patents
ME 365 - Systems Measurement - Fall '06 Associate Editor for Control Engineering Practice (CEP), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) NSF Panel Reviewer, Summer 2008 ASME Fuels Program Peer Review Panel Member for U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Feb. 2009 Teaching
ME 375 - System Modeling and Analysis - Spring '10, Spring '08, Fall '07, Spring '07
ME 475 - Automotic Control Design - Spring '09, Fall '08
ME 575 - Theory and Design of Control Systems - Fall '10, Fall '09
Professional Service
Community/Campus Engagement
Member - Ground Vehicle Power Research Community, Energy Center
Marrow Donor (Video/Interview) - City of Hope, Spring 2007
Marrow Donor (Article) - City of Hope, Spring 2007
Faculty advisor, Phi Chapter of Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity - Organizer of Local and National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Competitions
News
Advanced engine-control system reduces biodiesel fuel consumption and emissions, 1/25/2010
Purdue report: Switching to biodiesel benefits Indianapolis buses, 8/21/2008
In Gas-Powered World, Ethanol Stirs Complaints (New York Times), 7/26/2008
Purdue's Herrick Labs turning 50, eyes future expansion, 7/2/2008
WSBT (South Bend, IN) Radio Interview, 6/1/2007
'Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption', Purdue Press, 5/8/2007
Herrick Labs Newletter, Spring 2007
Greater Lafayette Citybus Newsletter, Spring 2007
Purdue ME Impact, Winter 2006-07
2006 Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award (for best paper pulished in the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control)
Article: Gifts to Benefit Mechanical Engineering, Journal & Courier 9/16/2006
Purdue report: Switching to biodiesel benefits Indianapolis buses, 8/21/2008
Purdue's Herrick Labs turning 50, eyes future expansion, 7/2/2008
WSBT (South Bend, IN) Radio Interview, 6/1/2007
'Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption', Purdue Press, 5/8/2007
Herrick Labs Newletter, Spring 2007
Greater Lafayette Citybus Newsletter, Spring 2007
Purdue ME Impact, Winter 2006-07
2006 Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award (for best paper pulished in the Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control)
Article: Gifts to Benefit Mechanical Engineering, Journal & Courier 9/16/2006
Ph.D. Thesis
Physics-Based Modeling and Control of Residual-Affected HCCI Engines Using Variable Valve Actuation, September 16th 2005
Ph.D. Defense, May 6th 2005
