Said I. Abdel-Khalik

Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor

Office:	Love, Room 324
Phone:	404.894.3719
Fax:	404.894.3733
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Education

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973
• M.Sc., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971
• B.Sc., Alexandria University, Egypt, 1967

Research Areas and Descriptors

• Fission and Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems; Reactor engineering and thermal-hydraulics; two-phase flow and heat transfer; and inertial fusion technology.

Background

Dr. Abdel-Khalik started at Georgia Tech in Fall 1987 as a Professor and Georgia Power Distinguished Professor. Previously was an Assistant, Associate, and Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research

Over the past twenty five years, Dr. Abdel-Khaliks research has covered a wide range of areas in both mechanical and nuclear engineering. Among those areas are reactor operations and safety, reactor engineering and thermal hydraulics, accident and transient analysis, transport phenomena, multiphase flow and heat transfer, microscale heat transfer, and vapor explosions. His current research deals with single and two-phase flow and heat transfer in high-power density systems. Applications of this work include compact fission reactor cores, accelerator targets, high power resistive magnets, and modular electronic components. The purpose of the research is to obtain the experimental database necessary for the thermal-hydraulic design of such systems under both normal and accident conditions.

Some of Dr. Abdel-Khaliks other research projects in progress include experimental and numerical investigation of nonequilibrium, two-phase mist flow in steam conditioning equipment; electrohydrodynamic enhancement of boiling heat transfer; experimental and theoretical study of high-temperature molten-carbonate fuel cells; and flow visualization within complex microbundle geometries.

The sponsors of his research are the Southern Nuclear Operating Company, General Atomics, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Los Alamos National Laboratory, APT Southeast Consortium, Con-Tek Valves, Fisher Controls International, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Distinctions

• American Nuclear Society
  • Outstanding Achievement Award (Fusion Energy Division), 2006
  • Fusion Energy Division Chair, 2005-2006
  • Fellow, 1995
• Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Outstanding Service Award, 2003
  • Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award Advisor, 1998
  • Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants Award, 1994
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
  • Vice-Chairman, 2009-
  • Committee Member, 2006-present
• Jack M. Zeigler (BME 1948) Woodruff School Outstanding Educator Award, 2000
• American Society for Engineering Education (Nuclear Engineering Division) Glenn Murphy Award, 1999
• National Heat Transfer Conference Best Paper Award, 1999
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow, 1999
• Sigma Xi (Georgia Tech Chapter) Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Co-Advisor Weiman Ren), 1995
• University of Wisconsin Outstanding Teacher Award in Nuclear Engineering, 1987 and 1982

Patents

• Electrode Arrangement for Electrohydrodynamic Enhancement of Heat and Mass Transfer, with S.M. Jeter, U.S. Patent No. 6,374,909, April 23, 2002
• A Film Pump for Applying a Monolayer Film Over Water Surfaces, with S. M. Jeter and M. T. Pauken, U.S. Patent No. 5,558,845, October 1996
• A Nuclear Reactor Control System, U.S. Patent No. 5,045,275, September 3, 1991

Representative Publications

• K. A. Triplett, S. M. Ghiaasiaan, S. I. Abdel-Khalik, and D. L. Sadowski. 1999. Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow in Microchannels, Parts I & II. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 25(3), 377-394 & 395-410.
• G. M. Roach, Jr., S. I. Abdel-Khalik, S. M. Ghiaasiaan, M. F. Dowling, and S. M. Jeter. 1999. Low Flow Onset of Flow Instability in Heated Microchannels. Nuclear Science and Engineering 133(1), 106-117.
• T. M. Adams, S. M. Ghiaasiaan, and S. I. Abdel-Khalik. 1999. Enhancement of Liquid Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Microchannels Due to the Release of Dissolved Non-Condensables. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 42, 3563-3573.
• T. M. Adams, S. I. Abdel-Khalik, S. M. Jeter, and Z. H. Qureshi. 1998. An Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase Forced Convection in Microchannels. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 41(6), 851-857.
• M. Healy, P. J. Halverson, J. G. Hartley, and S. I. Abdel-Khalik. 1998. A Critical Heat Flux Correlation for Droplet Impact Cooling at Low Weber Numbers and Various Ambient Pressures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 41(7), 975-978.