Sumanta Acharya L. R. Daniel Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6413 Tel: (225) 578-5809 Fax: (225) 578-5924 Email: acharya@me.lsu.edu Personal web page Research Interests Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Combustion Education Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1982 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1980 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1978 Professional Experience L. R. Daniel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, December 1993-Present Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, August 1991 - December 1993 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, August 1987 - August 1991 Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, January - May 1988 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, June 1982 - August 1987 Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London, Jan - Sept, 1985 Faculty Research Participant, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 1984 Awards and Distinctions ASME Fellow LSU Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, 1997 DOW Outstanding Teacher Award, 1996 L. R. Daniel Endowed Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, 1993-Present ASME Excellence in Teaching Award, 1995 Certificate for Exemplary Service, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer,1994 Certificate and monetary award for NASA Inventions, ARC12479, ARC13073, ARC13182 Selected Publications P. Panigrahi., and S. Acharya., “Mechanisms of Turbulence Transport for Flow Past a Rib in the Internal Coolant Passage of a Gas Turbine Blade” ASME-J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 121, pp.152-160, 1999. R. Hibbs, S. Acharya, Y. Chen, and D.E. Nikitopoulos, “Mass/Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Coolant Passage with Cylindrical Vortex Generators: The Effect of Generator-Rib Spacing”, ASME-International Gas Turbine Conference, Orlando, FL, 1997. S. Acharya, T. Myrum, S. Sinha, and X. Qiu, "Developing and Periodically Developed Flow, Temperature and Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Duct", Intl. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 1997, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 461-480. T. Myrum, S. Acharya, S. Sinha, and X. Qiu, "Flow and Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Duct with Vortex Generators", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 118, No. 2, 1996, pp. 294-300. Acharya, S., Dutta, S., Myrum, T., and Baker, R. S., " Turbulent Flow Past A Surface-Mounted Two-Dimensional Rib", ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 116, 1994, pp. 238-246. Funded Research AFOSR, DARPA, DOE, DOW, GRI, LEQSF, NASA, NSF, ONR, SANDIA