M. Erol Ulucakli
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
258 Alumni Hall of Engineering
Easton, Pennsylvania 18042
Phone: 610-330-5444 E-Mail: ulucakli@lafayette.edu
Home: 629 Monroe Street, Easton, PA 18042
Citizenship: United States
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mechanical
Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1987
M.S., Mechanical
Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 1961
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
"Nucleate Pool
Boiling with Gravity and Subcooling," with H. Merte, Jr., Proceedings
of the 1988 National Heat Transfer Conference, ed. H.R. Jacobs,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers HTD‑Vol. 96, pp. 415‑422
(1988).
"Natural
Convection on a Horizontal Plate with High Gravity," with H. Merte, Jr., Heat
Transfer in Convective Flows, ed. R.K.Shah, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers HTD‑Vol. 107, pp. 281‑287 (1989).
"Nucleate Pool
Boiling with High Gravity and Large Subcooling," Journal of Heat
Transfer, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Vol. 112, No. 2, pp. 451‑457 (1990).
"Variation of
Superheat in Nucleate Pool Boiling at Constant Heat Flux," Journal
of Heat Transfer, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Vol. 113, No. 1, pp. 201‑208 (1991).
"Heat Transfer
in a Subcooled Falling Liquid Film," Convective Flow Boiling,
ed. Chen, J.C., pp. 329‑334, Taylor and Francis (1996).
"Thermal
Entrance Effects in Falling Liquid Films," Proceedings of the
ASME/JSME 4th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering‑1996,
ed. Rao, A.S., Vol. 1, Part A, pp. 385‑391 (1996).
"Turbulent
Natural Convection in an Enclosure," ASME Proceedings of the 31st
National Heat Transfer Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 37‑43 (1996).
"Turbulent
Natural Convection in an Enclosure with Localized Heating from Below," Experimental
Heat Transfer‑An International Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 325‑321
(1996).
"A Theoretical
and Experimental Study of Hyperbolic and Degenerate Mixing Regions in a Chaotic
Stokes Flow," with Hackborn, W.W. and Yuster, T., Journal of Fluid
Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (August 1997).
"Recent
Developments in Heat Transfer," Invited Paper, MAMKON‑97 1st
Mechanical Engineering Congress (with International Participation), pp.
8‑16, 4‑6 June 1997, Technical University of Istanbul, Istanbul,
Turkey (1997).
EDITED VOLUMES:
Phase Change
and Two-Phase Flow, Editors: M. E. Ulucakli and J. O’Brien, ASME
Proceedings of the 32nd National Heat Transfer Conference, Vol.4,
pp. 111-194 (1997).
Turbulent Heat
Transfer, Editors: M. E.
Ulucakli and M. R. Amin, Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, Vo. 3,
pp. 1-69, 1997 ASME International Congress and Exhibition.
Phase Change
Heat Transfer, Editor:
E. Ulucakli, 7th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 1-52 (1998).
Environmental
Control of Aerospace Vehicles, Editors: M. Erol Ulucakli and F. J. Asfia, Proceedings of the ASME
Heat Transfer Division-1988, Vol. 3, pp. 129-154 (1998).
Turbulent Heat
Transfer, Editors: M. E.
Ulucakli and F. J. Asfia, Proceedings of the 1999 National Heat Transfer
Conference, Aug. 15-17, 1999, Albuquerque, NM. (CD-ROM) (1999).
ABTRACTS AND
STUDENT PAPER:
"A Study of
Chaotic Advection in a Peculiar Stokes Stokes Flow," with Hackborn, W.W.
and Yuster, T., Proceedings of the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society,
Annual Meeting, May 29‑June 2, 1993, Toronto, Ontario (1993).
"A Theoretical
and Experimental Study of Hyperbolic and Degenerate Mixing Regions in a Chaotic
Stokes Flow," with Hackborn, W.W. and Yuster, T., Proceedings of the
Canadian Applied Mathematics Society, 16th Annual Meeting,
May 31‑June 2, 1995, St. John's, Newfoundland (1995).
"Heat Transfer
in a Subcooled Falling Liquid Film," Anand Gupta [ME '96], Rasika
Abeysinghe [ME '93], and M. E. Ulucakli, 9th National Conference on
Undergraduate Research, New York, April 20‑22, 1995.
CURRENT RESEARCH
PROJECTS
1. Natural
Convection Heat Transfer in Enclosures
2. Heat Transfer and
Fluid Mechanics in Falling Liquid Films
3. Chaotic Mixing in
Highly Viscous Liquids
ARC SUPPORT:
FACULTY SUPPORT:
Summer Research Fellowship, Faculty Research Grant, Publication Grant
EXCEL SCHOLARS: Steve Ryder, John Reap, Rachel Pilling,
Patrick O’Meara, Xavier Ribadeneira, Anand Gupta, Lakshman Benedict, Rasika Abeysinghe, Kyriacos Spentzos
COURSES TAUGHT
ME 497
Senior Design Project ME 495, 496 Honors
Thesis
ME 487 Principles
of Thermal Design ME 477
Internal Combustion Engines
ME 476
Environmental Engineering ME 470 Heat Transfer
ME 395
Fluid Mechanics Design ME 390 Independent Study
ME 365
Junior Laboratory II ME 362 Fluid
Mechanics
ME 360
Thermodynamics II ME 350
Thermodynamics I
ME 352
Introduction to
Thermodynamics
and
Heat Transfer
VaST 236
Energy, Environment, and
Society
FYS
093 Engineers of Dreams
ES
225 Engineering Professionalism and Ethics
MATH 264 Differential
Equations
PROFESSIONAL:
Lafayette College,
Easton, PA, 1988-Present
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor
Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA
Institute of
Thermo-Fluids Engineering and Science
Visiting Research
Scientist
University of
Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Lecturer
University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Lecturer
Technical University
of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
School of Mechanical
Engineering
Instructor
COLLEGE
COMMITTEES:
Committee on
Advanced Study and Research (CASR)
International
Affairs Program Advisory Committee
Special
Instructional Programs Committee
Women’s Studies
Program Advisory Committee
Library Committee
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETIES:
American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, Member
K-12 Committee on Aerospace Heat Transfer, Member
Anthracite-Lehigh Valley Section of ASME Region III, Past Chairman