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W.J. Minkowycz
James P. Hartnett Professor of Mechanical Engineering

B.S. Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota

M.S. Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota

• James P. Hartnett Professor of Mechanical Engineering (2006)
• ASME Classic Paper Award in Heat Transfer (2006)
• The Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994, 1990, 1987, 1981, 1976, 1975)
• ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1993)
• The University Distinguished Teacher Award (1989)
• ASEE Ralph Coats Roe National Award (1988)
• Fellow of the ASME (1986)
• The Harold A. Simon College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986)

Editorships

Laudatios

SELECTED RECENT AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"An Introiduction to the Lattice Grid," Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 0: 1-17 (2007).

“A Compact Fininte Difference Method on Staggered Grid for Navier-Stokes Flows,” Int. J. Numerical Methods in Fluids, 52:867-881 (2006).

“Heat Transfer in Parallel Plates and Circular Porous Passages with Axial Conduction,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 49, 1592-1602 (2006).

“Exact Factorization Technique for Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flows,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 49, 535-545 (2006).

“Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulations of Particle/Droplet-Laden Turbulent Flows,” in Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer, Second Edition, Chap. 22, 697-728, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2006.

“A Critical Synthesis of Pertinent Models for Turbulent Transport through Porous Media,” in Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer, Second Edition, Chap. 12, 389-416, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2006.

“Heat Transfer to Flow through Porous Passages Using Extended Weighted Residuals Method – A Green’s Function Solution,” Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 48, 1330-1349 (2005).

“A Numerical Study of the Heat Transfer to Fluid Flow through Circular Porous Passages,” Numerical Heat Transfer, 46, 929-955 (2004).

“Coalescence Collision of Liquid Drops,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 46, 77-89 (2003).

“Certain Anomalies in the Analysis of Hyperbolic Heat Conduction,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 124, 307-319 (April 2002).

"A Modified Form of the κ-ε Model for Turbulent Flows of an Incompressible Fluid in Porous Media," J. Porous Media, 43, 2909-2915 (2000).

“On Departure from Local Thermal Equilibrium in Porous Media Due to a Rapidly Changing Heat Source: The Sparrow Number,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 42, 3373-3385 (1999).

“Interacting-Sprays Injection: A New Concept for Nox and Smoke Reduction in Diesel Engines,” Atomization and Sprays, 8, 673-690 (1998).

“Double-Diffusion in a Porous Cavity Saturated with Non-Newtonian Fluid,” J. Thermophsyics Heat Transfer, 12, 437-446 (1998).

“Macroscopic Equations of Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Porous Matrix,” J. of Porous Media, 1, 273-283 (1998).

“A Numerical Method for the Computation of Flow in Irregular Domains that Exhibit Geometric Periodicity Using Nonstaggered Grids,” Numerical Heat Transfer: Part B, 31, 1-21 (1997).

“Thermal Analysis of Composite Superconductors Subjected to Disturbances,” Heat and Mass Transfer (formerly Wärme-und Stoffübertragung), 33, 177-184 (1997).

“Natural Convection in a Porous Cavity Saturated with Non-Newtonian Fluid,” J. Thermophysics Heat Transfer, 10, 640-651 (1996).

“Two-Phase Dispersed Flow Heat Transfer Augmented by Twisted Tapes,” J. Enhanced Heat Transfer, 1, 4, 305-314 (1994).

“Heat Transfer to Dispersed Swirl Flow of High Pressure Water with Low Wall-Superheat,” Experimental Heat Transfer, 4, 153-169 (1991).

“Adaptive Collocation Method for Simultaneous Heat and Mass Diffusion with Phase Change,” J. Heat Transfer, 106, 491-497 (1984).

“Collocation Method for Convection Dominated Flows,” Int. J. Num. Methods in Fluids, 4, 271-281(1984).

“KNOWTRAN: An Artificial Intelligence System for Solving Heat Transfer Problems,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 25,1279-1289 (1982).

Free Convection about a Vertical Flat Plate Embedded in a Saturated Porous Medium with Application to Heat Transfer about a Dike,” J. Geophysical Research, 82, 2040-2044 (1977).

Research Interests

Computational modeling in heat transfer,two-phase swirl flow with heat transfer,two-phase fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in porous media, non-Newtonian flow in porous media, turbulence modeling in porous media,and sparrow-Galerkin approach to radiation exchange.