About Us

CTD Founder:

Edward Bullister, Ph.D.,

Tel: 781-790-1188

Edward T. Bullister, Ph.D., has significant expertise in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics and in medical devices. Dr. Bullister earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engieering in the fluids lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Bullister was previously Chief Scientist of Apex Medical, and Principal and Founder of Nektonics, Inc., an MIT spinoff company in Cambridge, MA., which developed and licensed out a unique CFD product to Fluent, Inc. He worked in the Propusion and Power Group of Rockwell Space Shuttle Division developing fluidic components. He has also been the Principal Investigator on several Phase I and Phase II SBIR contracts with NASA.

Bullister, Edward, et. al. "Physiologic Control Algorithms for Rotary Blood Pumps using Pressure Sensor Input", Presented at the 9th Congress International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps (ISRP); published in Artificial Organs 26(11):931-938, 2002.

Bullister, Edward, et. al. "A Blood Pressure Sensor for Long-Term Implantation", Presented at the 8th congress of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps; published in Artificial Organs, 25(5), 2001.

Bullister, Edward, "Thin-Film Fluid Bearings in Implantable Devices", Presented at the 2003 Annual meeting of The American Society of Artificial Organs (ASAIO), to be published in Artificial Organs.

Kamm, Bullister, and Keramidas, ``The Effect of a Turbulent Jet on Gas Transport During Oscillatory Flow'', ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 108, August 1986..

Bullister, E. and Orszag, S.A., ``Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Spots in Channel and Boundary Layer Flows'', Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, September, 1987.

Handler, Hansen, and Sakell (NRL); Orszag and Bullister (MIT), ``Calculation of the Wall-Pressure Field in a Turbulent Channel Flow'', Physics of Fluids, vol. 27, no. 3, March 1984.

Bullister, Edward T., Ho, Lee W., and Ronquist, Einar M., ``Accurate Calculation of Free Surface

Flows Using the Spectral Element Method'', Advances in Finite Element Analysis in Fluid Dynamics, FED-Vol. 137, ASME, 1992.

Bullister, E.T., Cartage, T., Deville, M., and Patera, A.T., 1986. ``Spectral Methods for the Solution of Natural Convection Flows'', in Proc. 10th Int. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, Peking.

Karniadakis, G.E., Bullister, E.T., and Patera, A.T., 1986. ``A Spectral Element Method for the Two- and Three-Dimensional Time-dependent Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations'', in Proc Europe-U.S. Symposium on Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Problems, Norway, Springer-Verlag pp. 801-817.

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Bullister, E.T., Karniadakis, G.E., Ronquist, E.M., and Patera, A.T., 1986. ``Solution of the Unsteady Navier-Stokes Equations by Spectral Element Methods'', in Proc. Sixth Int. Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, Antibes.

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Bullister, Edward T., Ho, Lee W., Ronquist, Einar M., ``Computational Environment for Microgravity Materials Processing Simulations'', Final Report for NASA contract NAS3-26725, 1994.

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Bullister, Edward T., Ho, Lee W., Ronquist, Einar M., ``A Computational Fluid Dynamics Package for Massively Parallel Supercomputing', Final Report for NASA contract NAS5-38075, 1996.

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Bullister, Edward T., Motakef, S., Patera, Anthony T., ``Chemical Vapor Deposition Fluid Flow Simulation Modeling Tool'', Final Report for NASA contract NAS1-19102, 1992.

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Bullister, Edward T., Orszag, S. Karniadakis, G, Ronquist, E. and Yakhot, V., ``Transition to Turbulence in Complex Aerodynamic Flows", Final Report for NASA contract NAS1-19017, 1990.

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Bullister, Edward T. "Development and Application of High-Order Numerical Methods for the Solution of the Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations", Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, 1987.

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Bullister, Edward T. "Mass Transport in Oscillatory Flow Under the Influence of a Turbulent Jet", M.S. Thesis, MIT, 1984.