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 As
a heat transfer and fluid mechanics generalist, Dr. Gerard F.
Jones, has successfully worked on a broad range of problems,
a few of which are listed below. His background as a project
engineer at a major oil company, a technical staff member and
productive researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
and a vital faculty member at Villanova University, as well
as an adjunct member of the University of New Mexico while at
LANL, have provided him with a breadth and depth of experience
that is nearly unequaled by faculty in mechanical engineering
programs. Motivated by industrial applications, and consistently
focused on fundamentals and approximate analytical solutions
for insight, he and his students have solved problems on:
- Heat exchangers, including cryogenic and high-performance
composite-matrix types
- Laminar and turbulent natural convection in open and
partially divided enclosures
- Transient natural convection in large and small enclosures;
application to passive solar heating
- Heat transfer and fluid flow for cooling of electronic
components including optimization of composite heat spreaders
and coldplates
- Heat transfer in processing of advanced composite materials
- Transport and chemical reaction in liquid metal and
biological systems
- Flow and heat transfer in porous media including High-Gradient
Magnetic Separation filtration, and regenerative active
magnetic refrigeration
- Rapid transient conduction and interfacial thermal resistances
in melt-spinning and glass solidification
- High-speed liquid flow in paneled enclosures for personnel
protection
- Non-continuum heat conduction in a packed bed with volumetric
energy generation
- Anisotropic heat conduction in a reinforced-concrete
wall with a central insulation layer
- Flat plate solar collector system analysis and design
for residential and commercial buildings
- Double-diffusive convection in salt-gradient solar ponds
for thermal and electrical power production
- Analysis and modeling of thermal yields from hot dry
rock geothermal reservoirs
- Thermal management of TEM fuel cells using distributed
TE coolers
As an ensemble, these topics include domains that span from
the sub-micron (non-continuum heat conduction and thermal processing
of advanced composite materials) to large-scale (laminar and
turbulent natural convection in full-size buildings) through
the small-scale (double-diffusive convection in salt-gradient
solar ponds and interfacial thermal resistances in glass solidification).
Attention must always be paid to include the physics appropriate
to the scale of the problem at hand.
Dr. Jones currently teaches or has taught undergraduate and
graduate courses in thermodynamics, heat conduction, convection,
thermal radiation, fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics,
solar thermal analysis, fundamentals of analysis and design,
numerical methods, and numerous laboratory courses for more
than 30 years. His recent textbook, Gravity-Driven Water Flow
in Networks: Theory and Design, (John Wiley & Sons, 2010) is
an outgrowth of work with service-learning teams of students
over the past years in their efforts to design and build water
networks for people in need in Central America and elsewhere.
He and his students are capable with Fluent (CFD), ANSYS,
EES, Matlab, and Mathcad. Dr. Jones has used Fluent in his graduate
courses in CFD, convection, and fluid mechanics.
Dr. Jones and his students are eager to tackle a variety
of academic and industrial-based heat transfer and fluid-flow
problems.
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