Northern Arizona University

Email:

Peter.Vadasz@nau.edu

Educational Background:

• B.Sc. - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,            Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
• M.Sc. - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,  Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
• D.Sc. - Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

• Northern Arizona University - Department of Mechanical Engineering,  July 2002 - present.
• University of Durban Westville, South Africa,      1991-2002
  • 1992-1998; Professor and Head- Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • 1998-2002; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics
• Engineering Economics
• Heat Transfer
• Modeling of Bioengineering Processes
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

• Vadasz Number (  ) – proposed by B. Straughan in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A (457, No. 2005, 87-93, 2001) and subsequently adopted by S. Lombardo & G. Mulone in Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. (14, 527-540, 2002), S. Govender in Transport in Porous Media (51, 315-326, 2003), B. Straughan in Proc. Royal Society of London A (480, 2913-2927, 2004), Mulone and Straughan in ZAMM (86, 507-520, 2006), S. Govender in Transport in Porous Media (63, 489-502, 2006).
• NRF “A” rating awarded to South African scientists who are identified as “World Leaders, for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs”, 2000.
• Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation – 2004 - present.
• Fellow of ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998 - present .
• Award of Fellow of the University of Durban-Westville “for distinguished academic work of such quality as to recommend special recognition locally and internationally”, 1997.
• ASME Board of Governors Award “for valued services in advancing the engineering profession as ASME South Africa Correspondent September 1994 - September 1995”, 1996.

• PrEng - Professional Registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) (1992-2006).
• PR - Professional Registration with the Israeli Registrar of Engineers and Architects.
• FASME - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
• FSAIMechE - Fellow of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE) (1992-2002).
• MNYAcadSci - Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1995-1996).
• MIsrBEA - Member of the Israeli Board of Engineers and Architects (1980-1990).

• Heat and Mass Transfer and Fluid Dynamics
• Nanotechnology - Nano-Heat Transfer
• Bioengineering
• Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
• Nonlinear Dynamics - Stability, Bifurcations and Routes to Chaos

(1) BEJAN, A., VADASZ, P. and KRÖGER, D.G. (ed.): Energy and the Environment, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-7923-5596-2, 1999.

(2) VADASZ, P. (ed.): Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media, Springer, May 2008.

(3) VADASZ, P.,: Non Linear Convection and Stability in Porous Media , in preparation for publication. 

      Recent Chapters in Books

VADASZ, P.: "Free Convection in Rotating Porous Media", Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, I. Pop and D.B. Ingham (ed), Elsevier Science, pp.285-312, 1998 ( invited chapter ).

VADASZ, P.: "The Impact of Energy Storage Technologies on the Environment", Energy and the Environment, Bejan, A., Vadasz, P., and Kröger, D. G., (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp.135-147, 1999 ( invited chapter ).

VADASZ, P.: “Fluid Flow and Thermal Convection in Rotating Porous Media” & “Weak Turbulence and Transitions to Chaos in Porous Media”, , Handbook of Porous Media, Marcel Dekker, New York, pp.395-439 & pp.699-754, 2000 (invited chapters).

VADASZ, P.: "Compressed Air Energy Storage" in Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) - Energy Storage Systems, ed. Yalsin Gogus, UNESCO Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2002, (invited chapter).

VADASZ, P.: “Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Rotating Porous Media”, in Computational Methods in Water Resources (Vol. 1), S.M. Hassanizadeh, R.J. Schotting, W.G. Gray & G.F. Pinder (eds.), Development in Water Science, Vol. 47, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 469-476, 2002 (ISBN: 0-444-50975, ISSN: 0167-5648).

VADASZ, P., VADASZ, A.S.: “Ecological Models: Microbial Models”, in Encyclopaedia of Ecology, Sven Erik Jorgensen (ed.), Elsevier, accepted for publication, in press (invited chapter), 2008.

VADASZ, P.: “Analytical transition to weak turbulence and chaotic natural convection in porous media“, in Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media, P. Vadasz (ed.) Springer Science, 2008 .

VADASZ, P.: “Nanofluid suspensions and bi-composite media as derivatives of interface heat transfer modeling in porous media “, in Emerging Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media, P. Vadasz (ed.) Springer Science, 2008.