题目：Some Topics on Radiative Heat Transfer in Combustion and Plasmas

主讲人：Prof. Michael F. Modest，University of California, Merced, USA

时间: 2012年6月18日(周一)上午9:30-11:30

地点: 热能工程系系馆报告厅

Abstract: 1. Turbulence-Radiation Interaction: nongray spectral modeling using k-distributions, as well as MCM modeling turbulence–radiation interactions in combustion applications and air plasmas formed during hypersonic atmospheric entry of space craft.

2. Radiation of Plasma: radiative properties of the plume/plasma above ceramics during laser materials processing.

3. Gas Radiation Property: the development of approximate MCM to deal with multi-dimensional, spectral, and scattering effects.

About Michael F. Modest

2009-Present, Keith and Elinor Shaffer and Betty Lou George Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced;

1987-2009, Professor and Distinguished Professor at Pennsylvania State University, University Park;

1980-1986, Associate Professor and Professor at University of Southern California, Los Angeles;

1975-1980, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

Prof Modest’s present research interests are concentrated in the area of Radiative Heat Transfer, Heat transfer in combustion, Heat transfer in hypersonic plasma.

His textbook “Radiative Heat Transfer” is widely used across the world (cited 2442 times). He is the author or coauthor of one book, 11 book chapters, numerous keynotes and invited papers, over 250 refereed journal and proceedings papers, resulted in 25 Master’s theses as well as 16 Ph.D. theses. Besides, he is senior associate editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, associate editor of JQSRT; editorial board of the LIA's Journal of Laser Applications.

Prof Modest is the Fellow of ASME (1988) and Associate Fellow of AIAA (2005). He won the PennState’s highest research awards, the PSES Outstanding Research Award (2000) as well as the PSES Premier Research Award (2003); the ASME’s highest award in the area of heat transfer (2005); the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2007); the AIAA’s highest heat transfer award, the Thermophysics Award (2008). Besides, a special symposium at the National Heat Transfer Conference was honored to his 65th birthday, as well as a special issue of the Journal of Heat Transfer dedicated to his career (2009).