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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
40
Citations
6118
World Ranking
2030
National Ranking
755

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Vishwanath Prasad is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States and specializes in engineering research with a particular focus on computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including fluid flow and transfer processes, as well as sustainability and renewable energy.

The main research topics covered by Vishwanath Prasad include nanofluid flow and heat transfer, heat transfer mechanisms, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, heat transfer optimization, heat and mass transfer in porous media, fluid dynamics and thin films, and lattice Boltzmann simulation studies. This comprehensive range highlights a strong emphasis on thermal processes and fluid mechanics.

Recent scholarly contributions include:

  • Entropy generation of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid flow over a circular cylinder in the presence of nonlinear Boussinesq approximation: a non-similar solution (2020), published in Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
  • Numerical simulation of hydromagnetic Marangoni convection flow in a Darcian porous semiconductor melt enclosure with buoyancy and heat generation effects (2020), published in Materials Science and Engineering B
  • Comparative heat transfer analysis of electroconductive Fe3O4-MWCNT-water and Fe3O4-MWCNT-kerosene hybrid nanofluids in a square porous cavity using the non-Fourier heat flux model (2022), published in Physics of Fluids
  • Keller box simulation of magnetic pseudoplastic nano-polymer coating flow over a circular cylinder with entropy optimisation (2022), published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Finite difference computation of free magneto-convective Powell-Eyring nanofluid flow over a permeable cylinder with variable thermal conductivity (2020), published in Physica Scripta

Their frequent coauthors include K. Venkatadri, O. Anwar Bég, R. Sivaraj, and Ho-Hon Leung, indicating collaborative work within their specialized fields.

Publications by Vishwanath Prasad commonly appear in venues such as Heat Transfer, Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications, The European Physical Journal Plus, Journal of Porous Media, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These journals reflect their focus on thermal and fluid sciences.

In addition to research articles, Vishwanath Prasad has contributed to academic books, including a publication by IntechOpen titled Porous Fluids - Advances in Fluid Flow and Transport Phenomena in Porous Media (2021).

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through awards including the Heat Transfer Memorial Award from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020 and a Fellowship with the same society awarded in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Springer handbook of crystal growth

    Govindhan Dhanaraj;Kullaiah Byrappa;Vishwanath Prasad;Michael Dudley

  • Non-darcian effects on natural convection in a vertical porous enclosure

    G. Lauriat;V. Prasad

  • Natural Convection in a Vertical Porous Cavity: A Numerical Study for Brinkman-Extended Darcy Formulation

    G. Lauriat;V. Prasad

  • CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN A RECTANGULAR POROUS CAVITY - EFFECT OF ASPECT RATIO ON FLOW STRUCTURE AND HEAT TRANSFER.

    V. Prasad;Francis A Kulacki

  • Natural convection in porous media

    V. Prasad;F. A. Kulacki;M. Keyhani

  • Analysis of temperature and pressure changes in liquefied natural gas (LNG) cryogenic tanks

    Q.-S Chen;Q.-S Chen;J Wegrzyn;V Prasad

  • Natural convection in a vertical porous annulus

    V. Prasad;Francis A Kulacki

  • Model and powder particle heating, melting, resolidification, and evaporation in plasma spraying processes

    Y. P. Wan;V. Prasad;G.-X. Wang;S. Sampath

  • An experimental study of natural convection in a vertical cavity with discrete heat sources

    M. Keyhani;V. Prasad;R. Cox

  • Elasto-Hydrodynamic Interaction in the Free Abrasive Wafer Slicing Using a Wiresaw: Modeling and Finite Element Analysis

    M. Bhagavat;V. Prasad;I. Kao

  • Evaluation of correlations for stagnant thermal conductivity of liquid-saturated porous beds of spheres

    V. Prasad;N. Kladias;A. Bandyopadhaya;Q. Tian

  • Experimental verification of Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer flow model for natural convection in porous media

    N. Kladias;V. Prasad

  • Microscale heat and mass transfer and non-equilibrium phase change in rapid solidification

    G.-X. Wang;V. Prasad

  • Natural Convection in a Rectangular Porous Cavity With Constant Heat Flux on One Vertical Wall

    V. Prasad;V. Prasad;Francis A Kulacki

  • Modeling and experimental observation of evaporation from oxidizing molybdenum particles entrained in a thermal plasma jet

    Y.P Wan;J.R Fincke;S Sampath;V Prasad

  • Mixed convection in horizontal porous layers heated from below

    V. Prasad;F. C. Lai;Francis A Kulacki

  • Numerical algorithm using multizone adaptive grid generation for multiphase transport processes with moving and free boundaries

    H. Zhang;V. Prasad;M. K. Moallemi

  • Modeling Stresses of Contacts in Wire Saw Slicing of Polycrystalline and Crystalline Ingots: Application to Silicon Wafer Production

    J. Li;I. Kao;V. Prasad

  • Inertia effects on natural convection in a vertical porous cavity

    V. Prasad;A. Tuntomo

  • Method and apparatus for improved wire saw slurry

    Michael A. Costantini;Jonathan A. Talbott;Mohan Chandra;Vishwanath Prasad

  • Natural Convection in Porous Media Bounded by Short Concentric Vertical Cylinders

    V. Prasad;F. A. Kulacki

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis A Kulacki
Francis A Kulacki University of Minnesota
Michael Dudley
Michael Dudley Stony Brook University
Sanjay Sampath
Sanjay Sampath Stony Brook University
Herbert Herman
Herbert Herman Stony Brook University
James Glimm
James Glimm Stony Brook University
Yogesh Jaluria
Yogesh Jaluria Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kambiz Vafai
Kambiz Vafai University of California, Riverside
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Wonbong Choi
Wonbong Choi University of North Texas
Wilson K. S. Chiu
Wilson K. S. Chiu University of Connecticut

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