Comparison of Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques

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Dr. Phil Ligrani is currently of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Convective Heat Transfer Laboratory at the University of Utah and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has beenworking on convection heat transfer and fluid mechanics research problems since he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1980. From 1979 to 1982, he was an Assistant in the Turbomachinery Department of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium. From 1982 to 1984, he worked in the Department of Aeronautics of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. From 1984 to 1992, he was an Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. In his research, he has investigated the ultra-small-scale motions that exist near walls in turbulent boundary layers, the effects of surface roughness on turbulent boundary layers, transitional phenomena in curved channels including the development and structure of Dean vortex pairs, and innovative schemes for internal cooling and surface heat transfer augmentation, such as dimpled surfaces and swirl chambers, as well as a variety of gas turbine heat transfer and blade cooling problems. He served as Guest Editor for the journal Measurement Science and Technology from 1998 to 2000, and he will serve as Associate Technical Editor for the Journal of Heat Transfer from 2003 to 2006. He has published approximately 150 journal papers, conference papers, and book chapters. In 1995, he was presented with the Professor of the Year award at the University of Utah for outstanding classroom teaching. Some of his other activities and recognitions include a Guest Professorship in 2000 at the Institut fur Thermische Stroemungs-maschinen-Universitaet Karlsruhe, a Visiting Senior Research Fellowship from 1982 to 1983 at the Imperial College of Science and Technology-University of London, a NASA Space Act Tech Brief Award in 1991 for Development of Subminiature Multi-Sensor Hot-Wire Probes, and the Carl E. and Jessie W. Menneken Faculty Award in 1990 for Excellence in Scientific Research. E-mail: ligrani@mech.utah.edu.