Satish Kandlikar

Professor
Phone: 585-475-6728
E-mail: [email protected]
Office: 2001 Gleason
URL: Thermal Analysis Lab

Satish Kandlikar has been a professor in the mechanical engineering department at RIT for last twenty-one years. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and has been a faculty there before coming to RIT in 1980. His research is focused in the areas of flow boiling, critical heat flux, contact line heat transfer, and advanced cooling techniques. After investigating the flow boiling phenomena from an empirical standpoint, which resulted in widely accepted correlations for different geometries, he started to look at the problem from a fundamental perspective. Using the high-speed photography techniques, he demonstrated that small bubbles are released at a high frequency under flow conditions, requiring high-speed photography and microscope to observe the two-phase flow characteristics. He has also worked in the area of binary flow boiling, bubble nucleation, contact angles, and interline heat transfer phenomena. He has published about seventy conference and journal (about 30) papers, He has presented a number of invited and keynote lectures nationally and internationally.

Satish takes a keen interest in implementing new techniques in teaching engineering courses. He has introduced the Total Quality concepts in teaching with considerable success. He believes that students are partners in an effective learning process, which is ultimately designed to produce responsible citizens. He is the recipient of the 1996-97 Einsenhart Outstanding Teaching Award at RIT. He was the head of the ME department at RIT for two years during 1999-2001.

Among other activities, Satish is:

• Fellow member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers


• Member of the K-8 committee on Theory and Fundamentals of the ASME Heat Transfer Division,


• Heat and History Editor of the internal journal of Heat Transfer Engineering


• Past chairman of the Rochester Section of ASME,


• Founder and Chairman of the Rochester Heat Transfer Chapter of ASME,


• Founder and active member of the E-cubed fair for middle school students