Srinath V. Ekkad, associate professor of mechanical engineering (ME) at Virginia Tech, will deliver one of the keynote lectures at the International Workshop on Recent Trends in Flow Visualization, Dec. 29, Rourkee, India.
This workshop will provide the state-of-art knowledge of varieties of experimental as well as computational techniques pertinent in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
Ekkad joined the ME faculty in August 2007 after spending nine years as associate and assistant professor at Louisiana State University and two years as senior project engineer in the Turbines Department at Rolls-Royce Allison Engine Company in Indianapolis. He completed his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 1995 and his M.S. from Arizona State University in 1991, both degrees in the area of turbine cooling and heat transfer.
He has over 50 journal publications and 65 conference presentations. He has received over $5.0 million in funding from DARPA, NSF, NASA, Siemens, Pratt & Whitney, GE, Solar Turbines, Toyota, and DOE. He has over 20 years of experience in gas turbine related research working on a variety of problems such as turbine blade tip cooling, film cooling through compound angle holes, internal passages with rib turbulators and bleed holes, impingement cooling arrays, unsteady wake effects on turbine blade heat transfer.