About Me

Kenneth Aycock, PhD

I perform experimental and computational mechanics research, primarily in the area of cardiovascular medical devices.

My Career

US Food and Drug Administration

Continuing VVUQ work and developing an end-to-end example following principles of ASME V&V10, V&V20, and V&V40 and FDA guidance documents

Feb. 2018—Present
Staff Fellow Mechanical Engineer

US Food and Drug Administration

Verification and validation of physics-based computational models drawing upon principles of ASME V&V10, V&V20, and V&V40

Oct. 2016—Feb. 2018
ORISE Fellow

Penn State Applied Research Lab
& Artificial Heart Lab

Solid and fluid mechanics research, including nonlinear materials (i.e., shear-thinning blood, hyperelastic blood vessel wall, and superelastic nitinol); Monte Carlo method for predicting medical device clot-trapping performance; Immersed boundary CFD/6-DoF

Aug. 2012—Sep. 2016
Graduate Research Assistant

Idaho National Laboratory

Bioenergy Research Program

May—Aug. 2011 & 2012
Summer Engineering Intern

My Publications

Method of manufactured solutions code verification of elastostatic solid mechanics problems in a commercial finite element solver
(2020)

Aycock, K. I., Rebelo, N., Craven, B. A.

Comput Struct. 229:106175.
Impact Factor: 3.35

A CFD-Based Kriging Surrogate Modeling Approach for Predicting Device-Specific Hemolysis Power Law Coefficients in Blood-Contacting Medical Devices
(2019)

Craven, B. A., Aycock, K. I., Herbertson, L. H., Malinauskas, R. A.

Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 18(4):1005-1030.
Impact Factor: 3.32

Steady Flow in a Patient-Averaged Inferior Vena Cava—Part II: Computational Fluid Dynamics Verification and Validation
(2018)

Craven, B. A., Aycock, K. I., Manning, K. B.

Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 9(4):654-653.
Impact Factor: 1.78

Steady Flow in a Patient-Averaged Inferior Vena Cava—Part I: Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements at Rest and Exercise Conditions.
(2018)

Gallagher, M. B.*, Aycock, K. I.*, Craven, B. A., Manning, K. B.
*M. B. Gallagher and K. I. Aycock contributed equally to this work.

Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 9(4):641-653.
Impact Factor: 1.78

Inter-laboratory Characterization of the Velocity Field in the FDA Blood Pump Model using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
(2018)

Hariharan, P., Aycock, K. I., Busen, M. R., Day, S.W., Good, B. C., Herbertson, L. H., Steinseifer, U., Manning, K. B., Craven, B. A., Malinauskas, R. A.

Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 9(4):623-640.
Impact Factor: 1.78

An Experimental and Computational Study of the Inferior Vena Cava Hemodynamics under Respiratory-Induced Collapse of the Infrarenal IVC
(2018)

Tedaldi, E., Montanari, C., Aycock, K. I., Sturla, F., Redaelli, A., and Manning, K. B.

Med Eng Phys. 54:44-55.
Impact Factor: 1.79

Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements in an Anatomical Vascular Model Fabricated using Inkjet 3D Printing
(2017)

Aycock, K. I., Hariharan, P., and Craven, B. A.

Exp Fluids. 58(154).
Impact Factor: 2.44

Computational predictions of the embolus-trapping performance of an IVC filter in patient-specific and idealized IVC geometries
(2017)

Aycock, K. I., Campbell, R. L., Lynch, F. C., Manning, K. B., and Craven, B. A.

Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 16(6):1957-1969.
Impact Factor: 3.32

A Resolved Two-Way Coupled CFD/6DOF Approach for Predicting Embolus Transport and the Embolus-Trapping Efficiency of IVC Filters
(2017)

Aycock, K. I., Campbell, R. L., Manning, K. B., and Craven, B. A.

Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 16(3):851-869
Impact Factor: 3.32

FDA Benchmark Medical Device Flow Models for CFD Validation
(2017)

Malinauskas, R. A., Hariharan, P., Day, S. M., Herbertson, L. H., Büsen, M. R., Steinseifer, U., Aycock, K. I., Good, B. C., Deutsch, S., Manning, K. B., and Craven, B. A.

ASAIO J. 63(2):150-160.
Impact Factor: 2.49

The Importance of Hemorheology and Patient Anatomy on the Hemodynamics in the Inferior Vena Cava
(2016)

Aycock, K. I., Campbell, R. L., Lynch, F. C., Manning, K. B., and Craven, B. A.

Annal Biomed Eng. 44(12):3568-4582
Impact Factor: 3.47

A Computational Method for Predicting Inferior Vena Cava Filter Performance on a Patient-Specific Basis
(2014)

Aycock, K. I., Sastry, S. P., Kim, J., Shontz, S. M., Campbell, R. L., Lynch, F. C., Manning, K. B., and Craven, B. A.

J Biomech Eng. 136(8). Erratum, October 2015;137(11)
Impact Factor: 2.03

My Projects

Generic IVC filter

Design of a generic IVC filter

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Two-way coupled fictitious domain solver (CFDEMcoupling)

Customized OpenFOAM/CFDEM solver with two-way rotation coupling

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Watt's six-bar walking mechanism

Optimized linkage lengths for six-bar walking mechanism

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