Sudhakar Neti
Phone: (610) 758-4117
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1978

Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1977
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1970
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Osmania University, India, 1968

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Director, Industrial Assessment Center (US DOE sponsored), 2000 - present
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1978-85
NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1978
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1985-92
Research Associate, Harwell Laboratory, Harwell, Oxfordshire, England, 1985-86
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, England, 1985-86

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research interests include laser velocimetry and laser diagnostic instrumentation, advances in computational methods for flow and heat transfer, two-phase flow and heat transfer, heat and mass transfer in desiccants, power plant performance measurement, transport processes in micro channels, non-Newtonian flow and heat transfer.

Engineering consultant to numerous companies.

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
Society of Rheology
Phi Beta Delta and Sigma Chi

Honors and awards:
NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 1978
Technical Program Co-Chair, International Conference entitled "Building for the 21st Century; Technology, Productivity, Livability, " December 2001, London.

Recent Ph.D. and M.S. Thesis and/or Project Reports Supervised:
(contact the department for a copy)
2007 - Adesoji O. Dairo, PhD Thesis, "Numerical simulation of Immiscible Liquid-Liquid Flows in Channels"
2007 - Christopher Shages, MS Thesis, "Interface Characterization of Planar Multi-Liquid Flows"
2007 - Bhadraiah Vempati, PhD Thesis, "Numerical Simulation of Immiscible Liquid-Liquid Flows in Pipe and Inclinded Channel"
2006 - Joshua H. Colistra, MS Thesis, "On the Interfacial Dynamics of Multi-liquid Channel Flow - Flow Regime Characterization and the Effct of Gravity"
2006 - Yijun Yang, MS Thesis, "Fluid Dynamics and Volume Fraction Analysis of Liquid-Liquid Flows"
2005 - Joel D. Krayer, MS Thesis, "The Micro-Arheometer: Bio MEMS Array for the Determination of the Viscoelastic Properties of Single Biological Cells"
2005 - Chad Kettering, MS Thesis, "Fluid Dynamics of Two Liquids in a Circular Geometry"
2005 - Te Neng Lin, MS Thesis, "Surface Defects of Linear Low Density Polyethylene Annular Extrusion"
2004 - Husyin Cagatay Yalcin, MS Thesis, "Characteristics of a Laser Driven Micropump"
2004 - Sevan Kocabay, MS Thesis, "Surface Distortions of Linear Low Density Polyethylene Extrudates"
2003 - Won Cheol Park, PhD Thesis, "Numerical Simulation of Sub-Cooled Flow Boiling"