Industrial Interactions

Tata Consulting Engineers, Bombay, India. Research on the problem of power plant heat rejection to water bodies, 1976-1978.

Steel Authority of India. Research on heat transfer modeling of batch annealing furnaces, 1978-1980

Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colorado. Research on energy extraction from solar ponds and on heat rejection to the surface layer of ponds, May - September, 1981.

Center for Fire Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Research on wall flows induced by enclosure fires, May - September, 1982.

Project from David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton on furnace design for thermal processing of glass, 1989-1990.

Consultant for several companies such as SRI international, A. T. Kearney, Bell Telephone System, Hoechst-Celanese, and manufacturing industry.

Provided computer software and interacted with several companies, such as Air Liquide, Corning, and National Starch, on numerical modeling of processes.

Consultant in several litigation cases, particularly in the area of fire safety, building air flows, manufacturing and security.

Thesis Guided

Advisor for 34 Ph.D. and 40 M.S. theses, with others in progress. Guided the work of 19 Post-Doctoral and visiting scholars, including some on Fulbright, Korean government and European fellowships.Guided the project work of about 15 M.Eng. students.