Department of Mechanical Engineering

Srinath Ekkad


Srinath Ekkad


Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
101 Randolph Hall
(540) 231-7192
(540) 231-9100 FAX

sekkad@vt.edu


Education Research
Teaching
Experience
Honors
Publications


Education

Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
1995
M.S. Mechanical Engineering Arizona State University 1991
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India 1989

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Research

  • Experimental heat transfer methods, enhanced heat transfer for turbine blade cooling, external surface heat transfer and film cooling for turbine blades, blade tip leakage flow and heat transfer, micro air vehicles, micro-channel heat exchangers, and fuel cell design and analysis.


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Teaching Activities

No Teaching Activities listed

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Experience

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA August 2007 - Present
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA August 2004 - August 2007
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Ausust 1998 - August 2004
Summer Faculty, Propulsion Directorate Air Force Research Labs, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio June 2003 - August 2003
Senior Project Engineer, Hot Gas Path Components, Turbine Engineering Division Rolls-Royce Allison Engine Company, Indianapolis, Indiana Dec. 1996 - August 2003
Research Associate Texas A&M Universtiy, College Station, TX Sept. 1995 - Nov. 1996

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Honors

  • 2006 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2004 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer (inaugural) - "for outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer, particularly your pioneering application of the transient liquid crystal technique for thermal measurements associated with airfoil film cooling; and for prolific and groundbreaking publication on this subject: awarded at the Heat Transfer Dinner during ASME IMECE Conference in Anaheim, California (November 2004).
  • National Merit Scholarship, India, 1983 - 1989.


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Publications

Book

  • Gas Turbine Heat Traansfer and Cooling Technology, J. C. Han, S. Dutta, and S. V. Ekkad, Publishers: Taylor & Francis, Inc., February 2001.

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  • Ekkad, S.V., Ou, S., and Rivir, R.B., A Transient Thermography Method for Simultanious Film Effectiveness and Heat Transfer Coefficient Measurements from a Single Test, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 2004, October, Vol. 126. pp. 597-603.
  • Gao, L., Ekkad, S.V., and Bunker, R.S., Impingement Heat Transfer Part I: Linearly Stretched Arrays of Holes, AiAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2005, January, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 57-65.
  • Herbert, R., Gao, L., Ekkad, S.V., and Bunker, R.S., Impingement Heat Transfer, Part II: Effect of Streamwise Pressure Gradient, AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2005, January, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 66-71.
  • Ekkad, S.V., Ou, S., and Rivir, R.B., Effect of Jet Pulsation and Duty Cycle on Film Cooling from a Single Jet on a Leading Edge Model, ASME Journal of Turbo Machinery, accepted.
  • Nasir, H., Ekkad, S.V., and Bunker, R.S., Effect of Tip and Pressure Side Cooland Injection on Heat Transfer Distributions for a Plane and Squealer Tip, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, accepted.
  • Esposito, E., and Ekkad, S.V., Jet Impingement Heat Transfer Visualization using a Steady State Liquid Crystal Method, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (Visualization of Heat Transfer Phenomena), July 2006.
  • Lu, Y., Nasir H., Faucheaux, D., and Ekkad, S.V., Film Cooling Measurements for Novel Hole Configurations, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (Visualization of Heat Transfer Phenomena), July 2006.

Articles Appearing In Books

  • Han, J.C., Ekkad, S.V., and Huang, Y., “Measurements on Augmented Heat Transfer Surfaces Using a Transient Liquid Crystal Technique,” Process, Enhanced, and Multiphase Heat Transfer, A Festschrift for AK Bergles, R.M. Manglik and AD. Kraus, Eds., Begell House, Inc., New
    York 1996, pp. 339-349.
  • Ekkad, S.V., “Calculation of Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient Using a Semi-infinite Solid
    Assumption,” Heat-Transfer Calculations, Myer Kutz, Editor, McGraw Hill, Section 21.3.

List of Peer Reviewed Symposium Volume or Conference Presenations

  • Lu, Y., and Ekkad, S,V., Film Cooling Predictions for Cratered Cylindrical Holes,” ASME IMECE 2006-14406, ASME IMECE Conference, November 2006.
  • Esposito, E., Ekkad, S.V., Kim, Y.W., and Dutta, P., Impingement Cooling with Extended Jet Ports, ASME IGTI Conference, May 2007.
  • Lu, Y., Dhungel, A., Ekkad, S.V., and Bunker, R.S., Heat Transfer Measurements for Trenched Holes, ASME IGTI Conference, May 2007.
  • Lu, Y., Dhungel, A., Ekkad, S.V., and Bunker, R.S., Heat Transfer Measurements for Cratered Holes, ASME IGTI Conference, May 2007.
  • Dhungel, A., Lu, Y., Phillips, WA., Ekkad, SN., Heidmann, J., Heat Transfer Measurements for Anti-vortex Film Hole Design. ASME IGTI Conference, May 2007.
  • Heidmann, 1., and Ekkad, S.V., A NorelAnti- Vortex Turbine Film Cooling Hole Concept, ASME IGTI Conference, May 2007.

 

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