Dr. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

Caudill Eminent Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail:gadelhak@vcu.edu
Phone: (804) 828-3576
Fax: (804) 827-7030
Web site

Address

401 West Main Street; Suite E3221
P.O. Box 843015
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3015

Education

Ph.D. Fluid Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1973
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1966

Honors

Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar, 1998
Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 1999
Inducted into The Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, 2002
Designated ASME Distinguished Lecturer, 2002-2005

Research topics

Fluids in motion
Flow control
Viscous pumps and microturbines
Microtechnology

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Current projects

Flow physics in microdevices
Taming of turbulence
Viscous pumps and microturbines
Microtechnology

Classes taught

Thermodynamics
Fluid Mechanics
Space Systems and Analysis
Heat Transfer
Building Systems
Viscous Flow Theory
Turbulence
Flow Control

Sample publications

Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2008) "Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation," Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2008) "Engineering vs. Disasters: Can Catastrophic Events be Tamed?," Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 130, August, pp. 39-41.
Oualli, H., Hanchi, S., Bouabdallah, A., Askovic, R., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2008) "Interaction Between the Near Wake and the Cross-Section Variation of a Circular Cylinder in Uniform Flow," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 44, pp. 807-818.
Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2007) "Turbulent Boundary Layers: Reality and Myth," International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics, Vol. 1, pp. 159-176.
Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2007) "Scaling of the Mean-Velocity Profiles of the Canonical Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flow," Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 42, pp. 419-467.
Xi, J., Si, X., Longest, P.W., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2007) "Curvature Law of the Wall for Swirling Axial Flows in Rotating Machinery," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 129, pp. 169-178.
Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2006) "Structure of the Canonical Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flow," AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 2500-2503.
Indinger, T., Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2006) "Mean-Velocity Profile of Turbulent Boundary Layers Approaching Separation," AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 2465-2474.
Gad-el-Hak, M., and Tsai, H.M. (editors) (2006) "Transition and Turbulence Control," 444 pages, World Scientific, Singapore.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Applications," 568 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Design and Fabrication," 664 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Introduction and Fundamentals," 448 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "Differences Between Liquid and Gas Transport at the Microscale," Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vol. 53, pp. 301-316.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "Liquids: The Holy Grail of Microfluidic Modeling," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, pp. 100612.1-100612.13.
Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "New Mixing-Length Approach for the Mean Velocity Profile of Turbulent Boundary Layers," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 393-396.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2004) "Publish or Perish—An Ailing Enterprise?" Physics Today, Vol. 57, March, pp. 61-62. Translated into Japanese as well as Czech.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2002) "The MEMS Handbook", 1368 pages, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Hamadiche, M., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2002) "Temporal Stability of Flow through Viscoelastic Tubes," Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 331-359.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2002) "Compliant Coatings for Drag Reduction," Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 38, pp. 77-99.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (2000) "Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management," 448 pages, Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (1999) "The Fluid Mechanics of Microdevices – The Freeman Scholar Lecture," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 121, pp. 5-33.
Gad-el-Hak, M., Pollard, A., and Bonnet, J.-P. (editors) (1998) "Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices", Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. m53, 540 pages, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Gad-el-Hak, M. (1996) "Compliant Coatings: A Decade of Progress," Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 49, no. 10, part 2, pp. S147-S157.

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