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:

S.S. Sadhal, P.S. Ayyaswamy and J.N. Chung, Transport Phenomena with Drops and Bubbles, Springer-Verlag, 520 pages, 1997, ISBN 0-387-94678-0.

Channarong Asavatesanupap and S.S. Sadhal, "Fluid dynamics of a particle with large vapor transport in Poiseuille flow," in press, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 1161, 2009.

Channarong Asavatesanupap and S.S. Sadhal, "Transient dynamics of a rotating spherical liquid drop," in press, J. Engineering Mathematics, 2009.

S.S. Sadhal, A.Y. Rednikov, and K. Ohsaka, "Non-intrusive theromphysical property measurement by acoustic and electrostatic levitation of liquids," J. Optoelectronics and Adv. Materials 10(11), pp. 28402853, 2008.

S.H. Lee, S.S. Sadhal and A.Y. Rednikov, "An analytical model for external streaming and heat transfer for a levitated flattened liquid drop," J. Heat Transfer 130: 091602-1-8, 2008.

S.H. Lee, K. Ohsaka, A.Y. Rednikov and S.S. Sadhal, "Noncontact Thermophysical Property Measurement by Levitation of a Thin Liquid Disk," Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 1077, pp. 75-95, 2006.

A.Y. Rednikov, H. Zhao, S.S. Sadhal and E.H. Trinh, "Steady Streaming Around a Spherical Drop Displaced from the Velocity Antinode in an Acoustic Levitation Field," Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 59, pp. 377-397, 2006.

S.S. Sadhal, A.Y. Rednikov and K. Ohsaka, "Shape Relaxation of a Liquid Drop in a Microgravity Environment," Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1027, pp. 447-463, 2004.

A. Rednikov and S.S. Sadhal, "Steady Streaming from an Oblate Spheroid due to Vibrations along its Axis," J. Fluid Mech. 499, pp. 345-380, 2004.

K. Ohsaka, A. Rednikov and S.S. Sadhal, "Noncontact technique for determining the thermal diffusivity coefficient on acoustically levitated liquid drops," Rev. Sci. Instrum 74 pp. 1107-1112, 2003.

Professional Societies:

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

Honors and Awards:

2007: James Harry Potter Gold Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
1990, 1991: NASA/ASEE Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1989: Life Fellow, Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge
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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