Alparslan Oztekin
Phone: (610) 758-4343
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1994

Education:
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul 1982
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona 1987
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1992

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT, 1992-1994
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1994-2000
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 2000-present

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research on the fundamental steady/unsteady flow and heat transfer in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, linear and nonlinear stability, flow transitions, nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flows, unsteady swirling and shearing flows, flows in a porous medium.

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
Society of Rheology
ASME
American Physical Society
Pi Tau Sigma

Honors and awards:
Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998
Pi Tau Sigma Teacher of Year Award, 1997

Recent Ph.D. and M.S. Theses and/or Project Supervised:
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2007 - Christopher Shages, MS Thesis, Interface Characterization of Plana Multi-Liquid Flows"
2007 - Ananchai U-kaew, PhD Thesis, "Turbulence Manipulation in Pipe Flow by Means of Swirl, Polymer Additives and Suspensions of Nano-particles in Water"
2006 - Yijun Yang, MS Thesis, "Fluid Dynamics and Volume Fraction Analysis of Liquid-Liquid Flows"
2005 - Chad D. 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 - Sevan Kocabay, MS Thesis, "Surface Distortions of Linear Low Density Polyethylene Extrudates"
2003 - Ananchai U-Kaew, MS Thesis, "Investigation of Viscoelastic Flow in a Horizontal Circular Pipe and Viscoelastic Flow Passing on Elbow Geometry"
2002 - Robert A. Upton, MS Thesis, "Stability of Viscoelastic Flow Between Parallel Plates with Viscous Heating"
2001 - Xiaolong Yin, MS Thesis, "Poiseuille and Hele-Shaw Cell Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids"