Curriculum Vitae

Amitabh Narain

 

 

Personal Data

 

Address

      Office:                           Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

                                                Michigan Technological University

                                                1400 Townsend Drive

                                                Houghton, MI 49931-1295

                                                Phone: (906) 487-2555      Fax: (906) 487-2822

                                                e-mail: narain@mtu.edu

                                                http://www.me.mtu.edu/~narain

 

        Home:                           1520 Brookside Drive

                                                 Houghton, MI 49931-2713

                                                 Phone: (906) 482-2441

 

        Citizenship:                   U.S. Citizen

 

Education

1983                               Ph.D. (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics) University of Minnesota

1980                               M.S. (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics) University of Minnesota

1978                               B.Tech. (Aero. Eng.) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (India), 1978.

 

Experience

2006-Present                Professor

1990-2006                    Associate Professor with tenure at Michigan Technological University

1988                               Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota

1983                               Assistant Professor at Michigan Technological University

1978 - 1983                  Research/Teaching Associate, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

 

Research Interests

·         Investigation of flow condensation and flow boiling issues that facilitate design and development of modern and efficient pumped two-phase systems - particularly micro-scale, space-based, and aircraft-based systems (such as vapor-compression cycles, electronic cooling systems, Rankine cycle power systems, etc.). Ongoing research involves an integrated computational and experimental approach for investigation of internal condensing flows, boiling flows, and the entire system. Phase-change flow research emphasizes prediction of quasi-steady flows and characterization of their unique transient sensitivities.

·         Investigation of melting and solidification of special phase-change materials for energy storage applications (such as solar power plants).

·         Use of commercial CFD/CHT codes, in conjunction with experiments, to model and improve industrial equipments or processes (such as natural and forced convection turbulent flows through heat exchangers, design/development or optimization of a displacement pump, etc.).

·         Study of cavitation signatures in an automobile’s torque-converter using micro-wave telemetry.

·         Shock propagation in viscoelastic fluids and solids (past interest).

·         Constitutive modeling of polymer melts (past interest).

 

 

Honors 

·         B. Tech., 1978, First Rank award in Aero. Eng. for each of the five years during 1973-1978. At graduation, awarded the IIT-Kharagpur's Silver Medal.

·         Fellow of ASME, 2006

·         Invited/nominated listing in Who's Who in Thermal-Fluids (www.thermalfluidscentral.org/who/), 2011-present.

·         Invited/nominated listing in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis 7th Edition), 2000 - present.

·         Listed in Who’s Who in America (Marquis 2008 Edition).

·         Life Member (1981), Sigma Gamma Tau, Aerospace Honor Society

 

Memberships (current and past) in Professional Societies

·         American Society of Mechanical Engineers

·         American Academy of Mechanics

·         Society of Engineering Science

·         American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics

·         American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

Grants, Contracts, and Gifts (Role: Investigator)

·         National Science Foundation Grant CBET-1033591, “Flow Prediction and Fluctuation-Sensitivity Investigations for Quasi-steady Shear Driven Condensing Flows in Millimeter to Micrometer Two-Phase Systems,” July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2013, Total NSF Funding: $297,288, A. Narain (PI) – Current

Ø  NSF REU supplement to NSF Grant No. CBET-1033591, 1 stu­dent for YEAR-1, Feb. 1, 2011 – Feb. 1, 2012, $6,000 (Current), PI: A. Narain.

·         NASA Grant NNX10AJ59G, “Ground-based Experimental and Computational Investigations of Shear Driven Internal Condensing/Boiling Flows for Flight Experiments and Space-Based Two-Phase Systems,” May 1, 2010 – April 30, 2012, $100,000, A. Narain (PI) - Current

·         NASA Grant NNC04GB52G, “Direct Computational Simulations and Experiments for Internal Condensing Flows’ Sys­tem-Instabilities/Dynamics in Micro-gravity and Terrestrial Environments,” 2004-2009, $686,963 (total with cost-share: $712,163). A. Narain (PI) with (over ’04-’06) H.A. Evenson (Co-I) and C. Van Karsen (Co-I). (Completed).

·         Engineered Machine Products (EMP) Inc., Escanaba, MI “Flow Simulations for Optimized Performance of Displacement Pumps,” Jan. 1, 2005 - Aug. 31, 2006, $67,748, A. Narain (PI). (Completed)

·         National Science Foundation Grant CTS-0086988,Prediction and Attainment Capability for Steady Internal Condensing Flows — An Inte­grated Experimental/Computational Approach,” June 1, 2001 – May 31, 2005, Total Amount (including mandatory equipment cost-share and GACS), $323,399, NSF Funding: $213,189, A. Narain (PI) with Nam Kim (Chem E), H. A. Evensen (ME-EM), and P. O. Sweger (ME-EM). (Completed)

Ø  NSF CTS-0217636, REU supplement to NSF Grant No. CTS-0086988, 2 stu­dents for YEAR-1, $12,000 (completed), PI: A. Narain.

Ø  NSF CTS-0331878, REU supplement to NSF Grant No. CTS-0086988, 2 stu­dents for YEAR-2, $10,000 (completed), PI: A. Narain.

·         R. W. Fernstrum & Co., Menominee, MI “Investigation of flow and heat exchange capabilities for Ferncool Box-Cooler Heat Exchangers,” April 16, 2003 - Oct. 14, 2005, A. Narain (PI) with O. Arici, $80,982. (Completed)

·         Gen­eral Motors , Powertrain Group, Ypsilanti, MI, “Cavitation Signatures in Torque Converters,”  1997-2000, C. L. Anderson (PI) and  A. Narain (Co-PI), $277,135 (Completed)

·         Gen­eral Motors, Powertrain Group, Ypsilanti, MI, “Static Pressure Measurements on the Suction Side of the Stator Blade in an Automotive Torque Converters,”  1999-2003, C. L. Anderson (PI) and  A. Narain (Co-PI), $285,651 (Completed)

·         Gen­eral Motors, Powertrain Group, Ypsilanti, MI, “Noise measurements in an Automotive Torque Converter,”  May 1, 2000 –April 30, 2001, C. L. Anderson (PI) , A. Narain, P. Sweger, H. A. Evensen, and Jason Blough, $98,700 (Completed)

·         Gen­eral Motors, Powertrain Group, Ypsilanti, MI, “Turbine Blade Measurement,”  May 1, 2000 –April 30, 2001, C. L. Anderson (PI) , A. Narain, P. Sweger, and Jason Blough, $78,000 (Completed)

·         NASA- Lewis grant NAG 3-711, “Film Condensation under Microgravity Conditions,” March 1986 - March 1989, N.V. Surya­narayana (PI) and A. Narain (Co-PI), $209,273 (Completed)

·         Donnelly Corporation, Holland, MI, Gift to A. Narain towards MSME student Amit Barve, “Exploratory Research in the Development of Automotive Mirror and Window Products,” Oct. 2003 (Tech Fund), $3,000.

·         Visiting Research Grant NSF/ DMS - 8504323 from the Institute for Math­ematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota for A. Narain, 1988- 1989, $10,000

·         National Science Foundation Grant NSF-9800672, “Conference on Integral Method in Science and Engineering 98,” Oct 1998 – Oct 1999, B. Bertram (PI, Math), Co-PIs: A. Narain, D. Sikarskie, A. Struthers, and M. Vable, Total: $45,926 (with cost share), NSF: $28,177.

·         National Science Foundation Instituitional Grant,  “High Performance Connections to the Internet,” by Eric Aupperle (PI) and Jeffrey Ogden (Co-PI), of Merit Network, Inc. in cooperation with Central Michigan University, Michi­gan Technological University, and Northern Michigan University.  MTU research faculty and staff contributing to the proposal included: Theodore Born­horst, Richard Brown, James Cross, Brenda Helminen, Xiaoqiu Huang, Michael Hyslop, Dennis Johnson, Shawn Laemmrich, Ann Maclean, Terance McNinch, Pushpalatha Mur­thy, Amitabh Narain, J. Bruce Rafert, James Riehl, William Rose. NSF approved the MTU portion of this proposal December 1998. Grant period: 1/1/1999 - 12/31/2000. Total project cost: $814,600. NSF portion: $350,000.

 

 

Consultancy

 

·         Procter and Gamble, Westchester, Ohio. “Development of a thermal design code for a chemical on a conveyor belt that moves through a chamber and is exposed to condensation,” Feb 2006 – May 2006.

·         Consultant (Viscoelasticity) at the Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. - Dec. 1984.

 

Publications

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

Refereed Journal Articles  

  1. J. H. Kurita, M. Kivisalu, S. Mitra, R. Naik, A. Narain: “Experimental Results on Gravity Driven Condensing Flows in Vertical Tubes, their Agreement with Theory, and their Differences with Shear Driven Flows’ Boundary Condition Sensitivities,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 2932-2951, 2011. Gravity Driven (Vertical Tube) Flows are Mostly Annular – Experimental Video
  2. S. D. Kulkarni, A. Narain, M. Kivisalu, S. Mitra, and M. M. Hasan: “Condenser performance, Control, and Heat Transfer Enhancement Issues Resulting from Elliptic-Sensitivity of Shear Internal Condensing Flows,” accepted and in-press for publication in the International Journal of Transport Phenomena, 2011.
  3. S. Mitra, A. Narain, R. Naik, and S. D. Kulkarni: “A Quasi One-Dimensional Simulation Method and its Results for Steady Annular/Stratified Shear and Gravity Driven Condensing Flows,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 3761-3776, 2011.
  4. Ng, T. W., A. Narain, M. Kivisalu: “Fluorescence and Fiber-Optics Based Real-Time Thickness Sensor for Dynamic Liquid Films,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 132, 031603-1 to 12, 2010.
  5. S. D. Kulkarni, A. Narain, and S. Mitra:“Forced Flow of Vapor Condensing over a Horizontal Plate (Problem of Cess and Koh*) - Steady and Unsteady Solutions of the Full 2D Governing Equations,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 132 (10), 101502, 2010.
  6. M. Kivisalu, N. Gorgitrattanagul, S. Mitra, R. Naik, and A. Narain: “Prediction and Control of Internal Condensing Flows in the Experimental Context of their Inlet Sensitivities,” accepted and in-press for publication in Microgravity Science and Technology,  Paper number: MGST318R1, 2011. Experimental Videos: Natural (No-Fluctuation) Flow at Normal Speed, Imposed Fluctuation at Normal Speed, and Imposed Fluctuation at 1/8th Speed.
  7. X. Geng, P. Patel, A. Narain, and D. D. Meng: “A Self-Adaptive Thermal Switch Array for Rapid Temperature Stabilization under Various Thermal Power Inputs,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 21 (2011) 085018.
  8. Narain, A., S. D. Kulkarni, S. Mitra, J. H. Kurita, and M. Kivisalu: “Internal Condensing Flows in Terrestrial and Micro-gravity Environments – Computational and Ground-based Experimental Investigations of the Effects of Specified and Unspecified (Free) Conditions at Exit,” Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena in Space Sciences, Vol. 1161, pp. 321-360, 2009.
  9. Phan, L., X. Wang, and A. Narain: “Exit Condition, Gravity, and Surface-Tension Effects on Stability and Noise-sensitivity Issues for Steady Condensing Flows inside Tubes and Channels,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 49, Issues 13-14, pp. 2058-2076, 2006.
  10. Narain, A., J. H. Kurita, M. Kivisalu, S. D. Kulkarni, A. Siemionko, T. W. Ng, N. Kim, and L. Phan: “Internal Condensing Flows Inside a Vertical Pipe – Experimental/Computational Investigations of the Effects of Specified and Unspecified (Free) Conditions at Exit,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, pp. 1352-1372, 2007.
  11. Phan, L. and A. Narain: “Non-linear Stability of the Classical Nusselt Problem of Film Condensation and Wave-Effects,” ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 74, No.2, pp. 279-290, 2007.
  12. Narain, A., Q. Liang, G. Yu, and X. Wang: “Direct computational simulations for internal condensing flows and results on attainability/stability of steady solutions, their intrinsic waviness, and their noise-sensitivity,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 71, pp. 69-88, 2004.
  13. Liang, Q., X. Wang, and A. Narain:  “Effect of Gravity, Shear and Surface Tension in Internal Condensing Flows - Results from Direct Computational Simulations,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 126 (5), pp. 676-686, 2004.

14.    Narain, A., L. Phan, X. Wang, J. H. Kurita, A. Siemionko, T. W. Ng, and S. D. Kulkarni: “Direct Computational Simulations and Experiments for Film Condensation inside Tubes and Channels,” Annals of New York Academy of Sciences , Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena in Space Sciences, Vol. 1077, pp. 471-507, 2006.

15.    Narain, A., S. D. Kulkarni, S. Mitra, J. H. Kurita, and M. Kivisalu: “Internal Condensing Flows in Terrestrial and Micro-gravity Environments – Computational and Ground-based Experimental Investigations of the Effects of Specified and Unspecified (Free) Conditions at Exit,” Accepted for publication in the Annals of New York Academy of Sciences , Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena in Space Sciences, 2008.

16.    Anderson, C. L., L. Zeng, P. Sweger, A. Narain, and J. R. Blough: “Experimental Investigation of Cavitation Signatures in an Automotive Torque Converter Using a Microwave Telemetry Technique,”  International Journal of Rotating Machinery, Vol. 9, pp. 403-410, 2003.

17.    Narain, A., G. Yu, and Q. Liu: “Interfacial Shear Models and Their Required Asymptotic Form for Annular Film Condensation Flows in Inclined Channels and Vertical Pipes,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 40, N0. 15, pp. 3559 - 3575, 1997.

18.    Narain, A.: “Modeling of Interfacial Shear for Gas Liquid Flows in Annular Film Conden­sation,” Journal of Applied Mechanics (Trans. of Amer. Soc. of Mech. Eng.), Vol. 63, pp. 529-538, 1996.

19.    Narain, A. and Y. Kizilyalli: “Pressure driven flow of pure vapor undergoing laminar film condensation between parallel plates,” International Journal of Non-Linear Mechan­ics, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 501-520, 1991.

20.    Gu, X. M., P. R. Sethna., and A. Narain: “On Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Subharmonic Resonant Surface Waves in a Fluid. Part I. Theory,” Journal of Applied Mechanics (Trans. of Amer. Soc. of Mech. Eng.), Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 213-239, 1988.

21.    Narain, A.: “On K-BKZ and other visco-elastic models as continuum generalizations of the classical spring-dashpot models,” Rheologica Acta, 25, pp. 1-14, 1986.

22.    Joseph, D.D., A. Narain, and Riccius, O.: “Shear Wave Speeds and Elastic Modulii for Different Liquids. I. Theory,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 171, pp.289-308, 1986.

23.    Narain, A. and D. D. Joseph:   “Classification of Linear Viscoelastic Solids based on a Failure Criterion,” Journal of Elasticity, 14, pp.19-26, 1984.

24.    Narain, A. and D.D. Joseph: “Linearized Dynamics for Step Jumps of Velocity and Dis­placement of Shearing Flows of a Simple   Fluid,” Rheologica Acta, 21, pp. 228-250, 1983.

25.    Narain, A. and D.D. Joseph: “Corrigendum to Linearized Dynamics for Step Jumps of Velocity and Dis­placement of Shearing Flows of a Simple   Fluid,” Rheologica Acta, 22, p. 519, 1983.

26.    Narain, A. and D.D. Joseph: “Remarks about the Interpretation of Impulse Experiments in Shear Flows of Viscoelastic Liquids,” Rheologica Acta, 22, pp. 528-538, 1983.

27.    Narain, A. and D. D. Joseph:   “Linearized   Dynamics   of   Shearing Deformation Per­turbing Rest in Viscoelastic Materials.” In: H. Knobloch and K. Schmitt (Editors). Equadiff 82, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer Verlag, Vol. 1017, pp. 476-507, 1983. Also in:Trans. 28th Conference of Army Mathematicians, ARO Report 83-1.

28.    Dixit, P.M., A. Narain and D.D. Joseph: “Free Surface Problems Induced by Motions Perturbing the Natural State of Simple Solids,”   Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 199-261, 1981.

Refereed Articles or Extended Abstracts in Conference Proceedings/Symposia

 

  1. M. Kivisalu, N. Gorgitrattanagul, S. Mitra, R. Naik, and A. Narain, “Shear/Pressure Driven Internal Condensing Flows and their Sensitivity to Inlet Pressure Fluctuations,” accepted for publication in Proceedings of IMECE 2011, 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA. Experimental Videos: Natural (No-Fluctuation) Flow at Normal Speed, Imposed Fluctuation at Normal Speed, and Imposed Fluctuation at 1/8th Speed.

30.    M. Kivisalu, N. Gorgitrattanagul, S. Mitra, R. Naik, and A. Narain, “Prediction and Control of Internal Condensing Flows in the Experimental Context of their Sensitivities,” Gravitational Effects on Liquid-Vapour Phase Change, Presqu'île de Giens (France), April 17-21, 2011.

31.    Mitra, S., R. R. Naik, and A. Narain, “Numerical Simulation of Exact Two-Dimensional Governing Equations for Internal Condensing Flows,” COMSOL conference 2010, October 7 – 9, Boston, 2010. URL: http://www.comsol.com/papers/8861/

32.    Mitra, S., A. Narain, S. D. Kulkarni, J. Kurita, M. Kivisalu, and M. M. Hasan, “Shear Driven and Gravity Driven Annular/Stratified Internal Condensing Flows,” Keynote Lecture, Paper Number ITP-09-75, Proceedings of International Transport Phenomena VI: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, October 4-9, Volterra, Italy, 2009.

33.    Mitra, S., A. Narain, S. D. Kulkarni, R. Naik, and J. H. Kurita, 2009, "Annular /Stratified Internal Condensing Flows in Millimeter to Micrometer Scale Ducts," Invited Lecture, MNHMT 2009-18507, Proceedings of ASME 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, December 18-22, 2009, Shanghai, China.

34.    Narain. A, S. Kulkarni, M. Kivisalu, J. H. Kurita, S. Mitra: “New Experimental and Computational Results for Macro- and Micro-scale Internal Condensing Flows,” Published in ECI International Conference Proceedings CD on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Micro-scale III, Whistler, Sep. 21-26, 2008.

35.    Narain, A., S. D. Kulkarni, S. Mitra, J. H. Kurita, and M. Kivisalu: “Internal Condensing Flows in Terrestrial and Micro-gravity Environments – Computational and Ground-based Experimental Investigations of the Effects of Specified and Unspecified (Free) Conditions at Exit.” Submitted for publication in the Proceedings of Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, Bansko, Bulgaria, October 14 - 19, 2007.

36.    A. Narain, M. T. Kivisalu, A. Siemionko, and S. D. Kulkarni: “Internal Condensing Flows inside a Vertical Pipe – Experimental/Computational Investigations of the Effects of Specified and Unspecified (Free) Conditions at Exit,” Paper IMECE2007-41306, published in IMECE07 Proceedings (CD) for Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

37.    Ng, T. W., and A. Narain: “Fluorescence and Fiber-Optics Based Real-Time Thickness Sensor for Dynamic Liquid Films.” Paper IMECE2007-41304, published in IMECE07 Proceedings (CD) for Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

38.    S. D. Kulkarni, A. Narain, and S. Mitra: “Steady Attractors for Forced Flow of Vapor Condensing over a Horizontal Plate (Problem of Cess and Koh)* and their Unsteady Responses to Initial Disturbances and Noise,” Paper IMECE2007-41311, published in IMECE07 Proceedings (CD) for Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

  1. Phan, L., X. Wang, S. Kulkarni, and A. Narain: “Direct computational simulations for film condensation inside tubes and channels,” IMECE2005-80445, FED-4A, accepted for publication in  IMECE05 Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, (2005). Also see: Proceedings of 18th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Guwahati, India, January 4 - 6, 2006.

40.    Phan, L. and A. Narain: “Direct Computational Simulations that Yield Stability and Wave-Effects for the Classical Nusselt Problem of Film Condensation,” submitted for journal publication. Paper IMECE2005-80221, published in IMECE05 Proceedings (CD) for Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

41.    Narain, A., A. Siemionko, T. W. Ng, J. H. Kurita, N. Kim, K. Opella, and P. O. Sweger: “Internal Condensing Flows Inside a Vertica Pipe – Experimental/Computational Investigations of Effects of Constrained and Natural Exit Conditions,” ASME IMECE05 proceedings paper IMECE2005-80441, HTD-1A, Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

  1. Narain, A., X. Wang, L. Phan, A. Siemionko, T. Ng, and J. H. Kurita: Film Condensation inside Tubes and Channels-Direct Computational Simulations and Experiments,” Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Chennai/Jaipur, India, December 8 - 10, 2005.

43.    Mekkes, J., C. L. Anderson, and A. Narain: “Static Pressure Measurements and Cavitation Signatures on the Nose of a Torque Converter’s Stator Blades,” Paper number: ISROMAC10-2004-035, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 07-11, 2004.

44.    Narain, A., Q. Liang, G. Yu, and X. Wang: “Direct computational simulations for internal condensing flows” (published as paper number HT2003-40472 in the ASME Proceedings (CD-ROM) for Summer Heat Transfer 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 21 - 23, 2003.

45.    Anderson, C. L., L. Zeng, P. Sweger, A. Narain, and J. R. Blough: “Experimental Investiga­tion of Cavitation Signatures in an Automotive Torque Converter Using a Microwave Telemetry Technique,” Proceedings of The 9th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 10-14, 2002.

46.    Narain, A., Q. Liang and A. S. Barve: “Free Surface Tracking and Steady/Unsteady Com­putational Simulations for Internal Condensing Flows,” in Fluid-Physics and Heat Trans­fer for Macro- and Micro-Scale Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows, ASME Proceedings for IMECE01; Book Number I00526, Vol. 3, (2001).ASME. Also orally pre­sented at Microgravity Transport Processes in Fluid, Thermal, Biological and Materials Sciences II, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 30 - October 5, 2001.

47.    Narain, A, G. Yu, and Q. Liu.: “Computational Simulation and Flow Physics for Stratified/ Annular Condensing Flows,” pp. 46 - 54, Proceedings of Engineering Foundation Confer­ence on Microgravity Fluid Physics and Heat Transfer, September 19 - 23, Oahu, Hawaii, Publisher: Begell House, Inc., ISBN 1-56700-146-5, 2000.

48.    Yu, G. and A. Narain: “Computational simulations and flow domain classification for lam­inar/laminar annular/stratified condensing flows,” Proceedings of Integral Methods in Sci­ence and Engineering, August 10 - 13, 1998, Houghton, Michigan, CRC Press, 1999.

49.    Liu, Q., and A. Narain: “Computational simulation and interfacial shear models for down­ward annular wavy-interface condensing flow in a vertical pipe,” Proceedings of Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, August 10 - 13, 1998, Houghton, Michigan, CRC Press, 1999.

50.    Yu, G., and A. Narain: “Computational Flow Simulation and Interfacial Shear for Annular/Stratified Condensing flows,” Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers-Fluids Engineering Division, FED-Vol. 244, pp. 53-61, symposium on Gas-Liquid Flows in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Dallas, 1997.

51.    Narain, A., G. Yu, and Q. Liu: “On Integrability, Interfacial Shear, and Flow Predictions for a Class of Internal Gas Liq­uid Flows in Annular Film Condensation,” Proceedings of the Society of Engineering Science 32nd Annual Technical Meeting, D. Hui and S. Michaelidis, Eds., October 29-November 2, 1995, New Orleans, LA, Published by Col­lege of Engineering-University of New Orleans and School of Engineering-Tulane Uni­versity, pp. 393-394, 1996.

52.    Narain, A.: “Modeling of Interfacial shear for Gas Liquid Flows in Annular Film Conden­sation,” in Two Fluid Flows-With or Without Phase Change, AMD-Vol. 184, pp. 41-54, 1994.

53.    Narain, A.: “Modeling of Interfacial shear and Heat Transfer Predictions for Internal Flows With Film Condensation,” in Fundamentals of Phase Change-Boiling and Conden­sation, HTD-Vol. 273, pp. 29-40, 1994.

54.    Narain, A.: “Interfacial Shear Modeling and Heat Transfer Predictions for Internal Flows with Film Condensation,” Proceedings of Engineering Foundation Conference on Condensation and Condenser Design, March 7- 12, St. Augustine, Florida, Publisher: United Engineering Trustees, ISBN No. 0-7918-0693-6, pp. 105 - 121, 1993.

55.    Narain, A.: “Interfacial Shear Modeling and Flow Predictions for Internal Film Condensa­tion Flows,” in Fluid Mechanics Phenomena in Microgravity, AMD-Vol. 154 and FED- Vol. 142, pp. 23-39, 1992.

56.    Narain, A.: “Condensing vapor flows and the case of flow between parallel plates,” in Recent Advances in Mechanics of Structured Continua, ASME-AMD Vol. 117, pp. 47-53, 1991.

57.    Narain, A. and R. Kamath: “Internal flows of vapor undergoing film condensation,” Pro­ceedings of the Twenty-Second Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Developments in Mechanics, University of Missouri-Rolla, Vol.16, Edited by R.C. Batra and B.F. Armaly, pp. 411-412, 1991.

58.    Narain, A.: “Flow of vapor undergoing laminar film condensation between parallel plates,” in Proceedings of CSME Mechanical Engineering Forum 1990, Univ. of Toronto, Vol. 1, pp. 379-389, 1990.

59.    Narain, A.: “Impulse Dynamics of Viscoelastic Fluids and Some Solutions by Integral Transforms.” In: Payne FR, Corduneanu CC, Haji-Sheikh A, Tseng Huang (Editors) Inte­gral Methods in Science and Engineering, pp. 114-129, Hemisphere Publishers, 1986.

Archival Reports

1.       Narain, A.: “Interfacial Shear Modeling and Flow Predictions for Internal Flows of Pure Vapor Experiencing Film Condensation,” IMA Preprint Series # 1103, pp. 1-60, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, January, 1993.

2.       Narain, A.: “Interfacial Shear Modeling and Flow Predictions for Internal Flows of Pure Vapor Experiencing Film Condensation,” IMA Preprint Series # 1103, pp. 1-60, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, 1993.

3.       Narain, A.: “Pressure driven flow of pure vapor undergoing film condensation between parallel plates,” IMA Preprint #542, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Uni­versity of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1989.   Also sent as a technical report   to NASA- Lewis on the grant NAG 3-711, 1989.

4.       Narain, A. and Y. Kizilyalli: “The flow of pure vapor undergoing film condensation between parallel plates,” IMA Preprint #502, Institute for Mathematics and its Applica­tions, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1989.

5.       Narain, A. and D.D. Joseph: “Note on the Balance of Energy at a phase-change inter­face,” IMA Preprint #518, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1989.

6.       Narain, A.: “On K-BKZ and Other Viscoelastic Models as Continuum Generalizations of the Classical Spring-Dashpot Models.” MRC Report #2895, University of Wisconsin- Madison 1985.

7.       Narain, A.: Final and several annual reports submitted on NSF Fastlane’s report website for CTS-0086988,Prediction and Attainment Capability for Steady Internal Condensing Flows — An Inte­grated Experimental/Computational Approach,” June 1, 2001 – May 31, 2005.

8.       Narain, A.: Final and several annual reports submitted on NASA Taskbook website for NASA Grant NNC04GB52G, “Direct Computational Simulations and Experiments for Internal Condensing Flows’ Sys­tem-Instabilities/Dynamics in Micro-gravity and Terrestrial Environments,” 2004-2009.

9.       Narain, A.: Annual report submitted on NSF Fastlane’s report website for CBET-1033591, “Flow Prediction and Fluctuation-Sensitivity Investigations for Quasi-steady Shear Driven Condensing Flows in Millimeter to Micrometer Two-Phase Systems,” July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011.

Inventions

·         Ng, T. W., A. Narain, and M. Kivisalu: “Fluorescence and Fiber-Optics Based Real-Time Thickness Sensor for Dynamic Liquid Films,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 132, 031603-1 to 12, 2010 [Invention reported to NASA].

 

Volumes Edited

·         Fluid-Physics and Heat Transfer for Macro- and Micro-Scale Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows, ASME Bound Volume Proceedings for IMECE01; Book Number I00526, HTD-Vol 369-3, Vol. 3, 2001, Editors: A. Narain, et al.

·         Gas Liquid Flows in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer,  ASME Bound Volume Proceedings for Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division, ISBN No. 0-7918-1838-1, FED -Vol. 244, 1997, Editors: A. Narain, et al.

·         Two Fluid Flows With or Without Phase Change,  ASME Winter Annual Meeting (International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition) Bound Volume Proceedings, ISBN No. 0-7918-1405-X, ASME-AMD Vol. 184., 1994, Editors: A. Narain, D. A. Sigi­ner and K. M. Kelkar.

 

Oral Paper Presentations and Seminars (with published abstracts or papers)

1.       Presentation at 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA.

2.       Presentation at Gravitational Effects on Liquid-Vapour Phase Change (Eurotherm Seminar Number 92), Presqu'île de Giens (France), April 17-21, 2011.

3.       Presentation at COMSOL conference 2010, October 7 – 9, Boston, 2010.

4.       Keynote Lecture at the Conference: International Transport Phenomena VI: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, October 4-9, 2009, Volterra, Italy.

5.       Invited Lecture, IMECE 2009-13385, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase-Change Flows at Macro- and Micro Scales, November 13-19, 2009, Orlando, Florida.

6.       Invited Lecture, MNHMT 2009-18507, ASME 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, December 18-22, 2009, Shanghai, China

7.       Presentation at: Next Generation Sub-Orbital Researchers Conference, Feb 18-20, 2009, Boulder Colorado.

8.       Invited technical lecture at an NSF sponsored: “Symposium on Complex Fluid Flows,” Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 2-3, 2009.

9.       Presentation at 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,Volume 54, Number 19, November 22–24,  Minneapolis, MN,  http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.DFD.LL.5

10.    Presentation at 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics ,Volume 54, Number 19, November 22–24,  Minneapolis, MN,  http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.DFD.HK.3

11.    Presentation at 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics ,Volume 54, Number 19, November 22–24,  Minneapolis, MN, http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.DFD.HK.4

12.    Presentation at 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics ,Volume 54, Number 19, November 22–24,  Minneapolis, MN, http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.DFD.HK.5

13.    Presented a paper at ECI International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Micro-scale, Whistler, Sep. 21-26, 2008.Presented a paper at Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, Bansko, Bulgaria, October 14 - 19, 2007.

14.    Presented paper number IMECE2007-41306 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, IMECE2007, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

15.    Presented paper number IMECE2007-41304 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, IMECE2007, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

16.    Presented paper number IMECE2007-41311 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, IMECE2007, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

  1. Presented a paper at 8th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Guwahati, India, January 4 - 6, 2006.

18.    Presented a paper at Transport Phenomena in Microgravity and Space Sciences IV, Engineering Conferences International, Tomar, Portugal, August 7 - 12,  2005.

19.    Presented IMECE2005-80445 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

20.    Presented IMECE2005-80221 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

21.    Presented IMECE2005-80441 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

22.    Presented IMECE2005-83211 at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

  1. Presented a paper at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Jaipur, India, December 8 - 10, 2005.

24.    Presented a paper at Microgravity Transport Processes in Fluid, Thermal, Biological and Material Sciences III, Engineering Conferences International, Davos, Switzerland, Sep­tember 14 - 19, 2003.

25.    Presented a paper at ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 21 - 23, 2003.

26.    Presented a seminar, “Computational Simulations for Internal Condensing Flows” at the Heat Transfer Seminar Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Feb. 25, 2003.

27.  Presented a paper as an Invited participant at Symposium on Multi-Component and Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, June 23- 28, 2002.

28.    Presented a paper “Free Surface Tracking and Steady/Unsteady Computational Simula­tions for Internal Condensing Flows,” at Symposium on Fluid-Physics and Heat Transfer for Macro- and Micro-Scale Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows, 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New-York, NY, Nov. 11-16, 2001.

29.  Presented a paper as an Invited participant at Microgravity Transport Processes in Fluid, Thermal, Biological and Materials Sciences II, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 30 - October 5, 2001.

30.   Presented a paper as an Invited participant at the Engineering Foundation conference on “Microgravity Fluid Physics and Heat Transfer,” Oahu, Hawaii, Sept. 19 - 24, 1999.

31.   Presented a paper as an Invited participant at the NSF sponsored “Workshop on Multi-component Multi-phase Fluid Dynamics” held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 12 - 13, 1999.

32.   Presented a paper [“Computational Simulations and Classification of Flow Domains for Laminar/Laminar Annular/Stratified Condensing Flow” by G.Yu and A. Narain] at the 5th International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI, August 10 - 13, 1998.

33.   Presented a paper [“Computational Simulation and Interfacial Shear for Annular Con­densing Downward Flows in a Vertical Pipe for Turbulent Vapor and Laminar Conden­sate” by Q. Liu and A. Narain] at the 5th International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI,  August 10 - 13, 1998.

34.   Presented a paper at Symposium on Gas-Liquid Flows in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Editors: A. Narain, et al., Dallas, Nov. 16 - 21, 1997.

35.   Presented a paper at the session “Multiphase & Particle-Laden Flows” at 48th Annual Meet­ing of American Physical Society/ Division of Fluid Dynamics, Irvine, November 19- 21, 1995.

36.   Presented a paper as an Invited participant at “Heat Transfer I” session at the Society of Engineering Science 32nd Annual Technical Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 30, 1995.

37.   Presented a paper at “Two Fluid Flows-With or Without Phase Change,” Symposium at 1994 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 6 – 11, 1994.

38.   Presented a paper at “Fundamentals of Phase Change—Boiling and Condensation,” confer­ence sponsored by AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 20-23, 1994.

39.   Presented a paper as an Invited participant at “Innovations in Multiphase Flow,” An International Fluid Mechanics Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 25-27, 1994.

40.   Presented a paper as an Invited participant at Engineering Foundation’s International Conference on “Condensation and Condenser Design,” St. Augustine, Florida, March 7- 12, 1993.

41.    Presented a paper at a Symposium at Winter Annual Meeting of ASME at Anaheim, CA, Aug., 1992.

42.    Presented a paper as an Invited participant at Twenty-Second Midwestern Mechanics Conference at University of Mis­souri, Rolla, MO, October 6-9, 1991.

43.    Presented a paper at Summer Annual Meeting of ASME-AMD at Columbus, Ohio, June 16-19, 1991.

44.    Presented a paper at Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, Lincoln-Nebraska, April 6-8, 1990.

45.    Presented a paper at Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers Forum 1990, University of Toronto, June 3-8, 1990.

46.    Presented a paper at Eleventh U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Tucson, AZ, May 21-25, 1990.

47.    Presented a paper at IMA Workshop on two phase flows in Fluidized Beds, Sedimentation, and Granular Flows. University of Minnesota, Jan. 3-10, 1989.

48.    Presented a paper at 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology at Atlanta, Georgia, October 19, 1987.

49.    Presented a paper at Mini-Symposium on Hyperbolic Phenomena in flows of Viscoelastic Fluids, University of Minnesota, October 8-10, 1986.

50.    Presented a paper at Mini-Symposium on Hyperbolic Phenomena in flows of Viscoelastic Fluids, University of Minnesota, October 8-10, 1986.

51.    Presented a paper at Tenth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, June 16, 1986.

52.    Presented a paper at Twenty Second Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Pennsylvania State University, October 8, 1985.

53.    Presented a paper at Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, March 20, 1985.

54.    Presented a paper at Twenty Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 30, 1984.

 

Service

 

Michigan Technological University

·         Chair of the  ME-EM Department Computer Committee, work included oversight of an approximate annual budget of $740,000. 2007-2010

·         Mentor (chair-designated) for ME-EM Assistant Professor Dr. Jeffrey Allen, 2004 – 2008 and Dr. A. Mukherjee, 2006-2007.

·         Member of the ME-EM Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2000 – 2006

·         University Library Liaison Committee (Mechanical Engineering representative) for yearly acquisition of books by the University Library System, 1990-2010.

·         Member, ME-EM Graduate Seminar Committee, 2003.

·         Mechanical Engineering Computer Committee, 1997-2002.

·         Chair of the 1999 ME-EM Department Chair Evaluation Committee.

·         Member, ME-EM Faculty Development (Promotion and Tenure) Committee, 1990-1992, 1992-1994 & 1994-1996.

·         Chair/Member of several (up to 8) Mechanical Engineering Ph. D. Committees (Written and Oral) for Energy/Thermo-Fluids and Mathematics Exams.

·         Course coordinator for MEEM 3210, 5210, 5280. & 6240.

 

 

Professional Society Symposium/Conference Organization

·         Organized a session at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows for ASME’s 2009 Interna­tional Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 13-19, 2009.

·         Organized a session (13-16-1) at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows for ASME’s 2007 Interna­tional Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Boston, Massachusettes, Oct. 31-Nov.6, 2008.

·         Lead Organizer for an international symposium on Gas- Liquid and Phase-Change Flows At Macro- and Micro-Scales for ASME’s 2007 Interna­tional Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007. The symposium was sponsored by: Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, K-8 Committee (Theory and Fundamentals) of the Heat Transfer Division, and Multi-Phase Flow Committee of the Fluids Engineering Division.

·         Lead Organizer for a six session international symposium on Gas- Liquid and Phase-Change Flows At Macro- and Micro-Scales for ASME’s 2005 Interna­tional Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 13-18, 2005. The symposium was sponsored by: Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, K-8 Committee (Theory and Fundamentals) of the Heat Transfer Division, and Multi-Phase Flow Committee of the Fluids Engineering Division.

·         Lead Organizer for an eight-session international symposium on Fluid-Physics and Heat Transfer for Macro- and Micro-Scale Gas-Liquid and Phase-Change Flows for ASME’s 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New-York, NY, Nov. 11-16, 2001. The sponsors for the symposia are: Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, K-8 Committee (Theory and Fundamentals) of the Heat Transfer Division, and Multi-Phase Flow Committee of the Fluids Engineering Division.

·         Co-organizer (A. Narain with B. Bertram - Organizer, D. Sikarskie, A. Struthers, and M. Vable) for Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, August 10 - 13, 1998, Michigan Tech.

·         Lead Organizer for a four session international symposium on “Gas Liquid Flows in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer” for ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Con­gress and Exposition (Winter Annual Meeting), Nov. 16-21, 1997, Dallas, TX. The spon­sors for the symposia were: Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, K-8 Committee (Theory and Fundamentals) of the Heat Transfer Division, and Multi-Phase Flow Committee of the Fluids Engineering Division.

·         Organized a symposium    Heat Transfer I” for the Society of Engineering Science 32nd Annual Technical Meeting, October 29-November 2, 1995, New Orleans, LA.

·         Lead Organizer for a symposium on “Two Fluid Flows With or Without Phase Change” at the 1994 ASME Winter Annual Meeting (International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition), November 6 - 11, 1994, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Session-Chair/Co-chair at Professional Meetings

·         Chaired a session at Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena VI: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, Volterra, Italy, October 4-9, 2009.

·         Chaired a session at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 13-19, 2009.

·         Chaired a session (13-16-1) at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Boston, Massachusettes, Oct. 31-Nov.6, 2008.

·         Co-chair for two sessions at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-16, 2007.

·         Chaired a session at Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences, Bansko, Bulgaria, October 14 - 19, 2007.

·         Co-chaired/chaired four sessions at Symposium on Gas Liquid and Phase Change Flows, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-11, 2005.

·         Chaired a session at  Transport Phenomena in Microgravity and Space Sciences IV, Engineering Conferences International, Tomar, Portugal, August 7 - 12, 2005.

·         Co-chaired/chaired sessions at Symposium on Gas-Liquid Flows in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Dallas, Nov. 16 - 21, 1997.

·         Chaired a session at “Heat Transfer I” session at the Society of Engineering Science 32nd Annual Technical Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 30, 1995.

 

 

Journals, Proceedings, and Organizations Reviewed for

·         International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

·         Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

·         International Journal of Thermal Sciences

·         Journal of Rheology

·         International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics and Analysis

·         Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

·         Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics

·         Chemical Engineering Communications

·         Journal of Heat Transfer

·         Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer

·         Journal of Applied Mechanics

·         Journal of Fluids Engineering

·         Computational Mechanics

·         A number (> 40 papers) for ASME Conference Proceedings, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomens Conferences, etc.

 

 

Invited Participation on Review Panels and in Future Research Direction Workshops of Government Agencies

·         NSF-CBET Review Panel, 2010.

·         NSF-CBET Review Panel, 2011.

·         NSF Workshop for Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research and Education: Energy Systems, Biological Systems, Security, Information Technology and Nanotechnology, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, May 17-18, 2007.

·         NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Science sponsored workshop for identifying excit­ing unanswered questions regarding “Multiphase Flow” and “Fluid Stability and Dynamics” in reduced gravity, especially as it relates to the design and operation of power, propulsion and ther­mal management systems. Workshop attended on at Hilton Garden Inn, Cleveland, OH, May 15, 2003.

·         Army Research Office Workshop on “Constitutive Modeling” at Virginia Polytechnic, Blacks­burgh, 1985.

 

Service in Professional Societies

·         Chair, Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee, ASME - Applied Mechanics Division, 2000-2003.

·         Vice-Chair, Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee, ASME - Applied Mechanics Division, 1998-2000.

·         Active member of the Multi-Phase Flow Committee of the ASME’s Fluids Engineering Division, 2005-present.

·         Active member of the K-8 committee of the ASME’s Heat Transfer Division, 2007-present.

·         One of the Judges at Fluid Mechanics Gallery Competition at the American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Irvine, 1995.

 

Public Service

·         Arranged several visits and experiment demonstrations to my lab (e.g. a  2004 “fly-in” group of prospective college freshmen considering engineering, industry/university visitors to MEEM, etc.).

·         One of the judges for ice-sculptors during 2004 Winter Carnival (for Blue Key).

·         Faculty Advisor, India Students Association at MTU, 1999-2000.

·         One of the judges for MTU Graduate Students Council’s research poster competition 1996, 1997, & 1998.

·         United Way, ME-EM Representative, 1985.

·         ME-EM Michigan Tech Fund Representative, 1984.

 

Long term Professional Visits/Sabbaticals

·         Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis,  1988-1989.

·         Long Term Visitor at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1988-1989.

·         Visitor at the Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. - Dec. 1984.

 

 

Teaching

 

Courses Taught

Graduate (at Michigan Technological University, 1983 - present)

·   Advanced Fluid Mechanics (MEEM 5210/EM531)

·   Advanced Heat Transfer (MEEM 5230)

·   Two Phase Flow and Heat Transfer (MEEM 5280)

·   Advanced Fluid Mechanics II (EM632)

 

 

Undergraduate (at Michigan Technological University, 1983 - present)                                                                                                 

·   Heat Transfer (ME328/MEEM3230, ME327)

·   Fluid Mechanics (EM431, EM332/MEEM3210)

·   Thermodynamics (ME223, ME320)

·   Dynamics (EM212)                               

                                                                    

Undergraduate (at University of Minnesota, 1988 – 1989)

·         Incompressible Boundary Layer Theory (Senior Level, AEM 5202)

·         Honors Mechanics I (Statics & Strength of Materials, AEM 3816H)

·         Dynamics (Junior Level, AEM 3036)             

 

Graduate Student Advising

Graduated  M. S. Students (19 students: principal advisor for 14 students and co-principal advisor for 4)

 

·         Sushant More, MSME (Courses only degree with a “special topics” educational research) from MTU, graduated Summer 2011.

·         Ranjeeth Naik, MSME, (Courses only) Fall 2010.

·         Sunil Khilnani, MSME (Report) from MTU, “Differences in Behavior Between Metallic and Non-Metallic Vapors for Internal Condensing Flows,” graduated Fall 2010.

·         Akshay Tonape, MSME (report) from MTU, “A Simple 1-D Model for Gravity Dominated 1-D Flows,” graduated Fall 2010.

·         Zhipeng Qin, MSME (Report) from MTU, “A Three-dimensional Heat Conduction Simulation Model for Assistance in the Use of a Heat-Flux Meter,” graduated Summer 2010.

·         Sandeep S. Sikarwar, MSME from MTU, “Recalibration and Modification of a Real Time Optical Fiber and Fluorescence based Liquid Film Thickness Sensor,” Fall 2008.

·         Jorge H. Kurita, MSME from MTU, “Experimental Investigation of Fully Condensing Downward Vapor Flows in a Vertical Tube - Unspecified (Free) Exit Condition Cases,” March 2007.

·         Jordan Bilyeu, MSME from MTU, “Flow Simulations For Optimized Performance of Displacement Pumps Manufactured By Engineered Machined Products,” August 2006.

·         Hector O. Degadillo Rocha, MSME from MTU, “Measurement and Modeling of Film Thickness Variations For Annular In-Tube Flows Through Design and Development of a Flow-Loop Test Apparatus,” September 2006.

·         A. Chichester, MSME from MTU,  “Heat-Exchanger Performance and  External Water (Coolant) Flow for a Heat-Exchanger at the Hull of a Ship,” November 2005.

·         X. Wang, MSME from MTU, “Direct Computational Simulations of Internal Condensing Flows and Effects of Gravity, Shear, and Surface Tension on Interfacial Waves and Heat Transfer Rates,” April 2004.

·         J. T. Mekkes, MSME from MTU, 2003 (with C. L. Anderson), “Static Pressure Measurements on The Nose of a Torque Converter Stator During Cavitation,” 2003.

·         A. S. Barve, MSME from MTU, “A Comparative Study of Internal Condensing Flows in Converging and Parallel Channels,” 2002.

·         L. Zeng, MSME from MTU (with C. L. Anderson), “Experimental Investigation of Cavitation Signatures in an Automotive Transmission Torque Converter,” 2000.

·         T. A. Cross, MSME from MTU (with C. L. Anderson), “Cavitation Signatures in an Automotive Torque Converter,” 1998.

·         R. M. Kamath, MSME from MTU, “Internal Flows of Vapor Undergoing Film Condensation,” 1991.

·         Y. Kizilyalli, MSME from MTU, “Computations (Integral Formulation) for the Flow of Pure Vapor Undergoing Condensation Between Parallel Plates,” 1989.

·         K. Lee, MSME from MTU, “A Computational Study of Film Condensation over a Horizontal Plate,” 1988.

·         C. Christodoulou, MSME from MTU (with N. V. Suryanarayana) “Condensation in a Horizontal Rectangular Duct – An Experimental Study,” 1987.

 

Graduated  Ph.D. Students (9 students: principal advisor for 7 students and co-principal advisor for 2)

·         Jorge H. Kurita from MTU, Experimental results on gravity driven fully condensing flows in vertical tubes, their agreement with theory, and their differences with shear driven flows’ boundary-condition sensitivities,” June 2011.

·         Shantanu Kulkarni from MTU, “Computational Study of Internal and External Condensing Flows and Experimental Synthesis to Investigate their Attainability and Stability in Ground-Based and Space-Based Environments,” 2010.

·         Lucas Phan from MTU, “Flow Simulations, Code Developments and Comparisons with Experiments for Internal/External Condensing Flows,” 2007.

·         Tian W. Ng from MTU, “Development and Calibration of a Fluorescence and Fiber-Optics Based Real-Time Thickness Sensor for Dynamic Liquid Films,” 2006.

·         Anna Siemionko, Ph.D. from MTU, ChemE (with Nam Kim as Advisor), “Design, Fabrication, and Operation of a System to Control FC-72 Condensation Inside a Vertical Tube,” 2006.

·         Q. Liang, Ph. D. from MTU, “Unsteady Computational Simulations and Code Development for a Study of Internal Film Condensation Flows’ Stability, Noise-sensitivity, and Waviness,” 2003.

·         G. Yu, Ph. D. from MTU, “Development of a CFD Code for Computational Simulations and Flow Physics of Annular/Stratified Film Condensation Flows,” May 1999.

·         Q. Liu, Ph. D. from MTU, “Computational Simulation and Interfacial Shear Models for Wavy Interface Annular Downward Flows in Vertical Pipes: Turbulent Vapor/Laminar Condensate Situations,” 1999.

·         Q. Lu, Ph. D. from MTU (with N. V. Suryanarayana), “An Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer with  Condensation in a Horizontal Rectangular Duct,” 1992.

 

M.S. Graduate Students Currently Being Advised (7 students)

·         Patcharapol Gorgitrattanagul, MSME from MTU, expected Fall 2011

·         Nikhil Ajotikar, MSME from MTU, expected Fall 2011

·         Rohan Gumaste, MSME from MTU, expected Fall 2011

·         Anit Nayak, MSME from MTU, expected Fall 2012

·         Jun Zheng, MSME from MTU, expected Fall 2012

·         Andrew F. Rice, MSME from MTU, begins Fall 2011

Ph.D. Graduate Students Currently Being Advised (3 students)

·         Michael T. Kivisalu, Ph. D. in MEEM from MTU, expected Spring 2012.

·         Soumya Mitra, Ph. D. in MEEM from MTU, expected Spring 2012.

·         Ranjeeth R. Naik, Ph. D. in ME-EM from MTU, expected Spring 2013.

 

Undergraduate Student Advising

·         Currently (2010-2011) advising ME-EM senior Andrew F. Rice (GPA 3.7)

·         Advised ME-EM senior Michael Kivisalu (GPA 3.7) over Summer’06 and Fall’06 as an undergraduate researcher on NASA grant.

·         Took up special advising of three seniors: Alan Chichester (GPA  3.7) and Lucas Phan (GPA  3.85) over Spring’03 and Jordan Bilyeau over Fall’04. For Alan and Lucas, it consisted of one hour per week meeting with them towards academically preparing them for research. Later on, all three of them joined my research as graduate students (one for Ph.D. and two for M.S.).

·         Advised ME-EM seniors Justin Keske (GPA 3.8) and James Whitmarsh (GPA 3.6)  on experimental aspects of condensing flow research over the summer of 2003. I also supported them through NSF’s REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program.

·         Advised ME-EM seniors Ted Hanes (GPA 3.88) and Vince F. Jones (GPA 3.9) on experimental aspects of condensing flow research over the summer of 2002. I also supported them through NSF’s REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program.

·         Extensively advised Matthew Himes, Matt McQueen, Jason Skiera, Nick Verhagen, and Daiyouga over Spring 04 and Fall 04 on their senior design project that was sponsored by me.

·         Advised a number of undergraduate students ( > 10) on issues such as career decisions, graduate school selection, design projects, etc. I have also written a number of reference letters on their behalf.

·         Advised (Winter 1999) five undergraduate students on a Design Project (ME 447) which involved fabrication of a fluid-mechanics experiment for measuring frictional losses in pipe flows.

·         Advised several undergraduates (Rodney Worthing, Celeste Mazur, Brian Kleinfeld, etc.) on individualized undergraduate projects under one-on-one guidance. For example, over the academic year 1997-1998, I advised Brian Kleinfeld as he built a hardware demonstrating passive cooling techniques (heat sinks) for a Pentium micro-processor (mounted on a PC’s motherboard). This demonstration, along with a related open ended design problem that we developed, is sometimes used for the undergraduate heat transfer (MEEM 3230) course.

·         Informally advised many students (> 10), who were working with other ME-EM advisors, and sought my input/help on fluid-flow/heat-transfer aspects of their design projects.