Konstantine Lambrakis

Education:

Ph.D. Aeronautical Engineering
Doctorate from the Division of Fluid, Chemical and Thermal Processes,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971
M.S.  Mechanical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 1965
B.S.   Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 1961

Professional Development Activities in recent years:

Co-Director, Center for Thermofluid and Multiphase Phenomena, 1997 – 2006, a research unit at the university dedicated to modeling, simulations, and analysis of multiphase flows, transient thermal phenomena and casting and solidification processes.  The center was funded by Connecticut Innovations Inc., Hershey Metal Products, Inc., and Opticon, Inc.

Research Director, SLS Applied Research, LLC., New Haven, CT until 2003.  Industrial consulting involving mathematical modeling and numerical simulations of multiphase flow and heat transfer phenomena.

Several projects are currently in progress, including work on fast moving interfaces in solidification, filtering of x-ray image artifacts due to scattering, compressible fluid flow discontinuities, microscale energy interaction phenomena.  

Grants: 

1969 – NSF Faculty Research Grant
1999 – Connecticut Innovations Grant (with Professor J. Sarris as co-investigator and in cooperation with Professor A. Sommers who was at that time on an external industrial assignment, i.e. President of Newton-New Haven Die Casting)

Recent Courses Developed & Taught:

ME 422             Compressible Fluid Flow  (undergraduate/graduate)
ME 443             Introduction to Flight Propulsion  (undergraduate/graduate)
ME 620             Advanced Thermodynamics  (graduate)
ME 632             Advanced Heat Transfer  (graduate)
ME 645             Computational Fluid Dynamics  (graduate)
ME 642             Combustion  (graduate)
ME 633             Convection Heat Transfer  (graduate)
ME 647             Two-Phase Flow  (graduate)
ME 651             Microscale Energy Transfer  (graduate)

Consulting & Publications:

Professor Lambrakis started his career in industry in 1961 as a design and development electrical engineer, then senior mechanical development engineer until 1968 at which time he joined the faculty of the engineering school at UNH.  He has served as chair of the ME Department and as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1976 to 1988.  While serving in the faculty he continued his involvement with industry as a consultant in the thermal/fluid science area.

Among his clients/employers have been the following local companies,Skinner Precision Industries - a division of Honeywell, MB Electronics - a division of Textron Electronics, AVCO-Lycoming, Spyral Tubing, Entoleter Corp., United Nuclear Corp., Times Fiber Communications, Newton-New Haven Die Casting, Blue Ridge Die Casting, Co., Pratt & Whitney, Opticon Inc., et al.  He also has served as advisor to two consecutive senior V.P. of General Dynamics – Marine Division, in technical, scientific and educational matters. 

Some of this consulting was done with the cooperation of Professor J. Sarris that resulted in a number of technical reports to the clients which were of proprietary nature and therefore non-publishable.

He has been involved in several litigation cases as an expert witness in some of which he was assisted by Professors J. Sarris and S. Ross.

He has continued his early interest in compressible fluid non-linearities and his published work on the subject is internationally recognized as "pioneering" and is frequently cited in scientific publications.

An array of references to this work, cited in texts of advanced thermodynamics and in first rate domestic and international journals, maybe viewed in Google Scholar under "Lambrakis and Thompson".

Some references to his work on the microscale level may be found under "Lambrakis and Schnitzer" in Google Scholar.