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Michael K. Jensen

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — jensem

Name:	Michael K. Jensen
Title:	Professor
Department	Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC) Center for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research (CFCHR) Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Multiphase Research
Website:	http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty/154?soeid=jensem

Bio Michael Jensen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. He began his teaching and research career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and moved to Rensselaer in 1987. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and holds a Professional Engineers license. Among many other university activities, he has served as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department, been on the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, and served as the student-elected member on the Institute-wide Promotion and Tenure Committee.

As principal investigator on 41 sponsored programs, including 19 multi-year grants from NSF, DOE, NIST, NYSERDA, and industry, and consultant to 25 industry and government organizations, Michael’s research interests have been directed toward convective single- and two-phase heat transfer and the associated fluid flows with an emphasis on these processes in heat exchangers and using enhanced heat transfer techniques. Recent research has focused on microchannel flows and thermal management of electronic systems, solar energy, and fuel cells. With his graduate students (32 MS, 18 PhD), he has performed both fundamental and applied research and has conducted both experimentally and numerically based research on a wide range of topics. Dr. Jensen has published over 180 technical papers, edited 10 volumes, 30 other assorted reports, and has published an undergraduate textbook on thermal and fluids engineering. He has two patents.

Michael has been honored as a Fellow of ASME, twice received the student-chosen Lewis T. Assini Undergraduate Teaching and Counseling Award, received the Ralph R. Teetor Award of SAE, and was awarded the RPI School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. He is active in his profession, having served or is serving on editorial boards of four international journals (Journal of Heat Transfer, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science; Applied Thermal Engineering, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology), recently was named as Founding Editor-in-Chief of ASME’s newest journal, Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, led the ASME Heat Transfer Division, and appointed as Alternate Delegate to Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. He has been chair or co-chair of six international conferences (including the National Heat Transfer Conference) and has been invited to be on numerous scientific committees for other national and international conferences. He is an active reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences and NSF, DOE, NASA, and NYSERDA proposals.

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Education Ph.D. Iowa State University

Scholarly Works:

Christman, K. and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Effect of Cross Flow Roughness on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 8 / 024501-1.
Gathright, W., Jensen, M.K., and Lewis, D., 2011, “Phase-field model of chemical reactions with an example of a solid electrolyte gas sensor,” Electrochemistry Communications, 13 pp. 520–523.
Michna, G.J., Browne, E.A., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2011. The effect of area ratio on microjet array heat transfer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (9-10), pp.1782-1790, April.
Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part II: Study of critical heat flux condition,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051503.
Basu, S., Ndaos, S., Michna, G. J., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M. K., 2011, “Flow boiling of R134a in circular microtubes. Part I: Study of heat transfer characteristics,” ASME Journal of Heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051502.
Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Julius, A., Peles, Y., and Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Stability analysis and maldistribution control of two-phase flow in parallel evaporating channels,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, submitted, March.
Zhang, T.J., Wen, J.T., Peles, Y., Catano, J., Zhou, R.L., Jensen, M.K., 2011, “Two-phase refrigerant flow instability analysis and active control in transient electronics cooling systems,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 37, pp.84-97.
Zhou, R.L., Zhang, T.J., Catano, J., Wen, J.T., Michna, G.J., Peles, Y., Jensen, M.K., 2010, “The steady-state modeling and optimization of a two-loop refrigeration system for high heat flux electronics cooling,” Applied Thermal Engineering, 30, pp.2347-2356.
Phelan, P.E., Gupta, Y., Tyagi, H., Prasher, R., Cattano, J., Michna, G., Zhou, R., Wen, J.T., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., 2010, “Energy efficiency of refrigeration systems for high-heat-flux microelectronics,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 2, 031004, Sep.
“Browne, E.A., Michna, G.J., Jensen, M.K., and Peles, Y., “Microjet Array Single-Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer with R134a,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53 (2010) 5027–5034.

Deborah A. Kaminski

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — kamind

Name:	Deborah A. Kaminski
Title:	Professor
Department	Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty/154?soeid=kamind

Bio

After receiving her B.S. degree in Physics, Deborah Kaminski spent 5 years at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. Her work focused on heat transfer in electrical machinery, including motors, transformers, batteries, and generators. She then returned to Rensselaer for doctoral research on computational fluid dynamics in free convection. After receiving her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, she joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991.

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Education Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Scholarly Works:

Application of Inverse Method to Determine Heat Transfer Coefficient for Post-Extrusion Spray Quenching of Aluminum Alloys (2001)
Automatic Convergence in a Computational Fluid Dynamic Algorithm Using Neural Networks (2000)
Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Curriculum (2000)
A Residual-Based Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Control of Convergence in a Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation (1999)
Control of Convergence in Convective Flow Simulations Using a Fuzzy Rule Set that Stabilizes Iterative Oscillations (1999)
Cross-Flow Convective Cooling of an Optical Fiber Exiting a Draw Furnace (1999)
Towards an Integrated Thermal/Fluids Curriculum (1998)
Control of Convergence of a Computational Fluid Dynamic Algorithm Using Fuzzy Logic (1998)
Combined Convection and Non-Gray Radiation in Simultaneously Developing Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer (1998)

Pawel Keblinski

Tue, 2011-03-08 17:47 — willij

Name:	Pawel Keblinski
Title:	Professor
Department	Materials Science and Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)

Bio Professor Keblinski received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Before he joined Rensselaer in 1999 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and worked at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany as a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Professor Keblinski is an author or co-author of 129 papers on topics ranging from mesoscopic-level modeling of vapor deposition and phase separation to atomic-level structure and properties of interfaces in metals, covalent materials and ionic ceramics.

Professor Keblinski’s work is focused on the relationship between microstructure and various materials properties, such as mechanical response, diffusion, interfacial migration and phase diagram, in particular, of nano-structured materials. A major goal of Professor Keblinski’s work is to design and analyze computational models in order to gain insights into the nature of the material behavior and properties. These insights are than used to formulate theoretical concepts, to understand experimental results and to guide future experiments. Other interests include connecting atomic-level modeling with electronic-level studies as well as with the macroscopic description of the material based on constitutive models.

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Education Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Physics M.S., Warsaw University, Poland Physics

Scholarly Works:

"Bonding-induced thermal conductance enhancement at inorganic heterointerfaces using nanomolecular monolayers", P. J. O’Brien, S. Shenogin, J. Liu, M. Yamaguchi, P. Keblinski, and G. Ramanath, Nature Materials 3465 (2012)
"The viscosity calculation of nanoparticle suspension confined in nanochannels", Y. Wang and P. Keblinski and Z. Chen, Phys. Rev. E 86 article # 036313 (5pp) (2012)
"Heat Localization for Targeted Tumor Treatment with Nanoscale Near-Infrared Radiation Absorbers", B. Xie, R. Singh, F. M. Torti, P. Keblinski and S. Torti, Phys. Med. Biol. 57, 5765–5775 (2012)
"Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Determination of Thermal Conductivity for Multi-Component Systems", H. Babaei, P. Keblinski, and J. M. Khodadadi, J. Appl. Phys. 112, article # 054310 (4pp) (2012)
"Inter-tube Thermal Conductance in Carbon Nanotubes Arrays and Bundles: Effects of Contact Area and Pressure", W. J. Evans, M. Shen and P. Keblinski. App. Phys. Lett. 100, article # 261908 (4pp) (2012)
"Effect of interfacial interactions and nanoscale confinement on octane melting", Y. Wang and P. Keblinski, J. Appl. Phys. 111, article # 064321 (7pp) (2012)
"Modeling initial stage of phenolic pyrolysis: Graphitic precursor formation and interfacial effects" Tapan G. Desai, John W. Lawson, Pawel Keblinski, Polymer, Volume 52, Issue 2, 21 Pages 577-585, January 2011

Recognitions:

NSF Career Award 2002
School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Junior Faculty Category, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (2004)
School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Senior Faculty Category, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (2010)

Richard N. Smith

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — smithr

Name:	Richard N. Smith
Title:	Professor
Department	Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School	Engineering

Bio

Richard Smith received a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and the M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Smith has had a wide variety of experiences in many elements of engineering education, including research, teaching, curriculum development and academic administration during his 34 year professional career, most of which has been spent at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a faculty member in the (now named) Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering. His research and teaching expertise has been in heat transfer and thermal-fluid sciences, with research applications in manufacturing and materials processing, especially solidification processing, as well as energy utilization and conversion, and his activities have been centered in the Heat Transfer Division of ASME.

In 2004, he completed a 3-year appointment as Program Director for the Thermal Transport Program in the Chemical and Transport System

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Education Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Scholarly Works:

Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Engineering Curriculum (2000)
A Neural Network Model for Real-Time Estimation of Workpiece Thermal Expansion (1999)
Towards an Integrated Thermal/Fluids Engineering Curriculum (1998)
Tufts-Rensselaer Thermal Manufacturing Research-Curriculum Development Program (1998)
The Influence of Forced Convection During Solidification on Fragmentation of the Mushy Zone of a Model Alloy (1997)
An Experimental Study of Waste Heat Recovery from a Residential Refrigerator (1996)
Effects of Buoyancy on the Growth of Dendritic Crystals (1996)
Effects of Mixed Convection on Dendrite Fragmentation During Alloy Solidification (1994)
Experimental Study of Dendrite Growth in an Undercooled Melt Under Microgravity Conditions (1994)
Solidification of Undercooled Melts: Thermal Recalescence and Mushy Zone Coarsening Dynamics (1994)
Experimental Investigation of Freezing Within a Thick-Walled Cylinder (1993)
Mushy Zone Modeling with Microstructural Coarsening Kinetics (1992)