Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1453 Office: OHE 400G Tel. (213) 740-0492 Fax. (213) 740-8071 email: sadhal@usc.edu

Academic rank: Professor, full-time

Education:

1978 PhD, Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology
1976 MASc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
1975 BASc, Nuclear/Thermal Engineering Science, University of Toronto

USC Academic Positions:

1997-98: Chairman
1992-97, 98-: Associate Chairman
1990-92, 1996: Acting Chairman
1993-: Professor
1984-93: Associate Professor
1982-84: Assistant Professor

Other Professional Positions:

1988-1989: Senior Visitor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
1978-1981: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests:

Drops and bubbles in acoustic fields, thermo-capillary flows with drops in low gravity, heat conduction in composite solids

Selected Publications:

K. Ohsaka, A. Rednikov, and S. S. Sadhal, ''Thermal diffusivity coefficient of glycerin determined on an acoustically levitated drop,'' Annals New York Acad. Sci. 974, pp. 124-131, 2002.
K. Ohsaka, A. Rednikov, S. S. Sadhal, and E. H. Trinh, ''Noncontact technique for determining viscosity from the shape relaxation of ultrasonically levitated and initially elongated drops,'' Rev. Sci. Inst. 73, pp. 2091-2096, 2002.
A. K. Das and S. S. Sadhal, ''Thermal constriction resistance between two solids for random distribution of contacts,'' Heat and Mass Transfer 35, pp. 101-111, 1999.
H. Zhao, S. S. Sadhal, and E. H. Trinh, ''Internal circulation in a drop in an acoustic field,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, pp. 3289-3295, 1999.
H. Zhao, S. S. Sadhal, and E. H. Trinh, ''Singular perturbation analysis of an acoustically levitated sphere: Flow about the velocity node,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, pp. 589-595, 1999.

Professional Societies:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
New York Academy of Sciences

Honors and Awards:

1989: Life Fellow, Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge
1990, 1991: NASA/ASEE Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1984: Presidential Young Investigator Award

Courses Taught:

AME 201, Statics
AME 331, Heat Transfer
AME 310, Engineering Thermodynamics I
AME 526, Advanced Analytical Methods
AME 515, Advanced Problems in Heat Conduction
AME 626, Singular Perturbation Methods

Recent Professional Development Activities:

2002: Editor, Proceedings, "Microgravity Transport Processes in Fluid, Thermal, Biological and Materials Sciences II," Conference, September 30 to October 5, 2001, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2002: Co-Editor, "Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Trends in Heat and Mass Transfer," January 7-9, 2002, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
2002: Co-Editor, "Heat and Mass Transfer 2002," Proceedings of the Fifth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, January 3-5, 2002, Kolkata, India, 1446 pages, Tata McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0-07-047443-5

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