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 Satish
Kandlikar
Professor
Phone: 585-475-6728
E-mail: sgkeme@rit.edu
Office: 2001 Gleason
URL: Thermal
Analysis Lab
Biography:
Satish Kandlikar has been a professor in the mechanical engineering
department at RIT for last twenty-one years. He received his Ph.D. degree
from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and has been a faculty
there before coming to RIT in 1980. His research is focused in the areas of
flow boiling, critical heat flux, contact line heat transfer, and advanced
cooling techniques. After investigating the flow boiling phenomena from an
empirical standpoint, which resulted in widely accepted correlations for
different geometries, he started to look at the problem from a fundamental
perspective. Using the high-speed photography techniques, he demonstrated
that small bubbles are released at a high frequency under flow conditions,
requiring high-speed photography and microscope to observe the two-phase flow
characteristics. He has also worked in the area of binary flow boiling,
bubble nucleation, contact angles, and interline
heat transfer phenomena. He has published about seventy conference and
journal (about 30) papers, He has presented a number of invited and keynote
lectures nationally and internationally.
Satish takes a keen interest in implementing new techniques in teaching
engineering courses. He has introduced the Total Quality concepts in teaching
with considerable success. He believes that students are partners in an
effective learning process, which is ultimately designed to produce
responsible citizens. He is the recipient of the 1996-97 Einsenhart Outstanding Teaching Award at RIT. He
was the head of the ME department at RIT for two years during 1999-2001.
Among other activities, Satish is:
- Fellow member of American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
- Member of the K-8 committee on Theory and
Fundamentals of the ASME Heat Transfer Division,
- Heat and History Editor of the internal journal of
Heat Transfer Engineering
- Past chairman of the Rochester Section of ASME,
- Founder and Chairman of the Rochester Heat Transfer
Chapter of ASME,
- Founder and active member of the E-cubed fair for
middle school students
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