P. S. Ayyaswamy

P.S. Ayyaswamy
BornMarch 21, 1942
Bangalore, India
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Mysore, India, Columbia University, NY, University of California, Los Angeles
Known forMultiphase flows and Transport, Bio Heat/Mass Transfer, Ionized Plasma Transport
Scientific career
FieldsHeat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania,
Notes
He holds the Asa Whitney Endowed chair at the University of Pennsylvania[1]

Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy (born March 21, 1942) is an Indian-born-American mechanical engineer,[2] the Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA,[1] and inventor.

He is known for his work on phase-change heat/mass transfer with droplets and bubbles, multi-phase flows, buoyancy-driven transport, and ionized arc-plasma transport with applications in condensation, combustion, microelectronic packaging, and micro-/macro-biological systems.[3] He is the recipient of the 2014 Max Jakob Memorial Award.

Biography

Youth, education and academic career

Ayyaswamy was born in Bangalore, India in 1942, and became a US citizen in 1975.[2] He earned his B.E. in 1962 from University of Mysore, India. Next he obtained his M.S. in 1965, and his M.E. in 1967, both from Columbia University. In 1971 he obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

From 1971 to 1973 he was a post-doctoral scholar at University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducted research on capillary flows in grooved surfaces, large scale safety of nuclear reactors and bounding theories in turbulence. He then joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania late 1974 as assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and rose through the ranks and now is the Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering.[4][5][6]

Awards honours and other activities

Ayyaswamy has won many awards for his research.[5] His national and international awards and honors include ASME 2007 Worcester Reed Warner Medal, ASME 2001 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Science Category,[7] Council of Indian Organizations Award,[8] ASME Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award,[4] Am. Inst. Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Professional of the Year (1997) award,[9]

He was also elected Panelist for Review of NASA Strategic Roadmaps: Space Station Panel (2005),[10] Elected Fellow of ASME (1990)[11] and visiting professor of Dept. of Mech. Eng., University of California, Berkeley, CA (2000).

Ayyaswamy has also won several teaching awards which include Lindback Award and Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching.[12][13][14]

Selected publications

  • Sadhal, Satwindar, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, and Jacob N. Chung. Transport phenomena with drops and bubbles. Springer Science & Business Media, 1997; 2012.
Articles, a selection
  • Ayyaswamy, P. S., I. Catton, and D. K. Edwards. "Capillary flow in triangular grooves." ASME J. Appl. Mech 41.2 (1974): 248–265.
  • Catton, Ivan, P. S. Ayyaswamy, and R. M. Clever. "Natural convection flow in a finite, rectangular slot arbitrarily oriented with respect to the gravity vector." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 17.2 (1974): 173–184.
  • Baish, J. W., P. S. Ayyaswamy, and K. R. Foster. "Heat transport mechanisms in vascular tissues: a model comparison." Journal of biomechanical engineering 108.4 (1986): 324–331.
  • Qiu, Qing-Qing, Paul Ducheyne, and Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy. "Fabrication, characterization and evaluation of bioceramic hollow microspheres used as microcarriers for 3-D bone tissue formation in rotating bioreactors." Biomaterials 20.11 (1999): 989–1001.
Patents

References

  1. ^ a b "P.S. Ayyaswamy". Seas.upenn.edu. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  2. ^ a b American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences. R.R. Bowker Company 1986. p. 220; 1992; 2008.
  3. ^ "University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 2007". Upenn.edu. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "front_cover.p65" (PDF). Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  5. ^ a b "CV of P.S. Ayyaswamy" (PDF). Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  6. ^ "University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 1974" (PDF). Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  7. ^ "University of Pennsylvania News, Penn Current". Upenn.edu. February 7, 2002. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  8. ^ "CIO (Council of Indian Organizations) Awards". Indiacouncil.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  9. ^ Satellite Tool Kit's In View Archived March 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ National Academic Press, Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station. Nap.edu. 2006. doi:10.17226/11512. ISBN 978-0-309-10085-4. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  11. ^ "Frontiers, Fundamentals, and Future Directions of Transport: From Theory to Applications - A Special Issue Honoring Dr. P. S. Ayyaswamy". ASME Digital Collection. March 27, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  12. ^ "Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  13. ^ "Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Awards at the University of Pennsylvania". Archives.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on March 24, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
  14. ^ "University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 2002". Upenn.edu. January 22, 2002. Retrieved January 16, 2012.