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, biotransport phenomena and mathematical modeling of biological systems, fluid dynamics and solute transport in eyes, drug delivery flow modeling in the vitreous humor and retina, protein aggregation in the presence of fluid shear

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.

A.Y. Rednikov & S.S. Sadhal, "Acoustic/steady treaming from a motionless boundary and related phenomena: generalized treatment of inner streaming and examples," J. Fluid Mech. 667, 426-462, 2011.

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, pp. 251-268, 2009.

Channarong Asavatesanupap and S.S. Sadhal, "Transient dynamics of a rotating spherical liquid drop," J. Engineering Mathematics 64, 251-168, 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.

Professional Societies:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
New York Academy of Sciences
Association for Research on Vision and Opthamology (ARVO)

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 537, Microfluidics
AME 581, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
AME 626, Singular Perturbation Methods
Math 226, Calculus III
Math 126, Calculus II

Recent Professional Development Activities:

Conference Chair: Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena Conference Series, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011

Guest Editor, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena VI proceedings, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena VI conference, October 2-9, 2009, Volterra, Italy, to be published, International Journal of Transport Phenomena

Editor, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena, proceedings, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V, conference, October 12-19, 2007, Bansko, Bulgaria, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1161, ISBN: 978-1-57331-712-2, 2009

Editor, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena in the Space Sciences, proceedings of Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena in Microgravity and Space Sciences IV conference, August 7-12, 2005, Tomar, Portugal, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1077, ISBN:1-57331-615-6, 2006

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