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31
Citations
6082
World Ranking
3255
National Ranking
1097

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Max Jakob Memorial Award
  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1975 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1964 - Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Simon Ostrach was affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Over the course of their career, they contributed to the field of mechanical engineering, with a particular focus on heat transfer and related phenomena.

Throughout their professional life, Ostrach received several recognitions acknowledging their work. These included the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1964. Later, they were awarded the Heat Transfer Memorial Award by the same society in 1975. They also became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1977. In 1982, they were honored with the Max Jakob Memorial Award.

Their research interests and contributions were linked primarily to mechanical engineering areas focusing on heat transfer processes. Though specific papers, coauthors, and venues for their publications are not documented here, the awards indicate involvement in significant developments within these topics.

Best Publications

  • Natural convection in enclosures

    Simon Ostrach

  • Low-Gravity Fluid Flows

    S. Ostrach

  • Fluid Mechanics in Crystal Growth—The 1982 Freeman Scholar Lecture

    Simon Ostrach

  • Convective effects in crystals grown from melt

    Sudheer M. Pimputkar;Simon Ostrach

  • Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in a simulated floating-zone configuration

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;M. Vargas

  • Experimental study of natural convection in shallow enclosures with horizontal temperature and concentration gradients

    Y. Kamotani;L.W. Wang;S. Ostrach;H.D. Jiang

  • Thermal convection in an enclosure due to vibrations aboard spacecraft

    Y. Kamotani;A. Prasad;S. Ostrach

  • A long wave approximation to peristaltic motion

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  • Natural convection heat transfer in cavities and cells

    S. Ostrach

  • Heat Transfer Augmentation in Laminar Fully Developed Channel Flow by Means of Heating From Below

    S. Ostrach;Y. Kamotani

  • The solution of a two-dimensional freezing problem including convection effects in the liquid region

    P.G. Kroeger;S. Ostrach

  • An experimental study of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in cylindrical containers

    Y. Kamotani;J. H. Lee;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • Microgravity experiments and analysis of oscillatory thermocapillary flows in cylindrical containers

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;J. Masud

  • Effect of Thermal Instability on Thermally Developing Laminar Channel Flow

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach

  • Modeling bubble and drop formation in flowing liquids in microgravity

    Ieehwan Kim;Yasuhiro Kamotani;Simon Ostrach

  • Analysis of velocity data taken in Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment in microgravity

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • Transient thermocapillary flow in thin liquid layers

    Sudheer M. Pimputkar;Simon Ostrach

  • Convective Heat Transfer Augmentation in Thermal Entrance Regions by means of Thermal Instability

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;H. Miao

  • Theoretical analysis of thermocapillary flow in cylindrical columns of high prandtl number fluids

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach

  • A thermocapillary convection experiment in microgravity

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN MATERIALS PROCESSING

    Simon Ostrach

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Duncan Dowson University of Leeds

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