Vice President | Faculty Affairs
Regents Professor
James J. Cain ’51 Professor III
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University 1983
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Kansas State University 1979
- B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Bangalore University, India 1978
Research Interests
- Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
- Numerical techniques
- Aerosols and condensation heat transfer
Awards & Honors
- 2020 ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal
- The Association of Former Students Texas A&M University, University Level Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Administration, 2018
- Regents Professor, Texas A&M University System, November 2014
- Inducted to Kansas State University Engineering Hall of Fame, Manhattan, Kansas, March 2011
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, March 2009, The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
- Distinguished Alumni, B. M. S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, December 2008
- James and Ada Forsyth Professorship, 2007
- Charles W. Crawford Service Award, 2006
- The Association of Former Students Texas A&M University Faculty Distinguished Achievement in Teaching Award, 2001
- TEES Fellow, 99-00, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
- TEES Fellow, 98-99, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
Selected Publications
- A. Alwafi, D.T. Nguyen, Y. Hassan, N.K. Anand, Investigation of the flow near the wall of a single impinging jet at the scaled upper plenum of HTGR using TR-PIV, The Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE), Tsukuba, Japan, May 2019.
- B.H. Choi, D. Orea, D.T. Nguyen, N.K. Anand, Y. Hassan, P. Sabharwall, Numerical Study of Particle Transport and Deposition in a Horizontal Channel Using a Lagrangian-based Modelling Approach, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2019), November 8th-14th, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019.
- D. Orea, B.H. Choi, D.T. Nguyen, R. Vaghetto, N.K. Anand, Y.A. Hassan, P. Sabharwall, Experimental Study of Surrogate Particle Transport and Deposition In a Square Channel Using Particle Tracking Technique, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2019), November 8th-14th, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019.
- D. Orea, B.H. Choi, D.T. Nguyen, R. Vaghetto, N.K. Anand, Y.A. Hassan, P. Sabharwall, An Investigation to Develop Measurement Techniques for Quantifying Fission Product Transport in a Gas-cooled Fast Reactor-Versatile Test Reactor Program, Transactions of American Nuclear Society 120 (1), pp. 1015-1018.
- B.H. Choi, D. Orea, D.T. Nguyen, N.K. Anand, Y. Hassan, P. Sabharwall, Numerical Investigation of Fluid Flow in a Square Channel-Versatile Test Reactor Program, Transactions of American Nuclear Society 121 (1), pp. 1149-1152.
Yassin Hassan
Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Chair in Engineering
Professor of Department of Nuclear Engineering
Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois, 1980
- M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois, 1975
- B.S., Engineering, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1968
Research Interests
- Computational & Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
- Reactor Safety
- Fluid Mechanics
- Two-Phase Flow
- Turbulence & Laser Velocimetry
- Imaging Techniques
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
- Fellow of the the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Awards & Honors
- Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design
- Associate editor of the Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
- TEES Research Impact Award 2018 – 2019
- Association of Former Students Distinguished Research Award 2018 – 2019
- American Nuclear Society Seaborg Medal (2008)
- James N. Landis Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017
- Fluid Engineering Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Inaugural Flow Visualization Competition and Prize at FEDSM 2017
- Akiyama Medal for the best paper at the International Nuclear Engineering Conference (ICONE 24), 2016
- George Westinghouse Gold Medal Award (2003)
- Arthur Holly Compton Award of the American Nuclear Society, 2003
- Thermal Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award (2004)
- Glenn Murphy Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2001)
- Honorary professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangor University in the United Kingdom
Rodolfo Vaghetto
Research Assistant Professor – Nuclear Engineering Department
Educational Background
- PhD in Nuclear Engineering – Texas A&M University (2013)
- M.S in Nuclear Engineering – Texas A&M University (2011)
- University of Palermo, Italy (2000)
Research Interests
- Experimental and computational aspects involving High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors.
- Computational thermal-hydraulics applied to existing Light Water Reactors (LWR) and Generation IV reactors
Selected Publications
- S. Lee, S. S. Abdulsattar, R. Vaghetto, Y. A. Hassan, “Permeability and compression of fibrous porous media generated from dilute suspensions of fiberglass debris during a loss of coolant accident,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 291, pp. 244-260, 2015.
- B. Beeny, R. Vaghetto, K. Vierow, Y. A. Hassan, “A Sensitivity Study Supporting Comparative Analysis of MELCOR and GOTHIC Large Dry Pressurized Water Reactor Containment Models,” Proceedings of the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) NURETH15-13356.
- R. Vaghetto, S. Lee, E. Kee, Y. A. Hassan, “Experimental Observations of Boric Acid Precipitation Scenarios,” Proceedings of the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) NURETH15-13055.
- B. Beeny, R. Vaghetto, K. Vierow, Y. A. Hassan, “MELCOR and GOTHIC Analyses of a Large Dry Pressurized Water Reactor Containment to Support Resolution of GSI-191,” Proceedings of the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) NURETH15-13354.
- S. Lee, R. Vaghetto, J. Lim, M. Kappes, Y. A. Hassan, “The Effect of Electric Potential on Fibrous Debris Bypass through a Containment Sump Strainer,” Proceedings of the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) NURETH15-13760
Current Student
Khoi M. Ngo
Master Student – Mechanical Engineering Department
Byung-Hee Choi
PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering Department
Daniel Orea
PhD Student – Nuclear Engineering Department
Nirmala Phillip
PhD Candidate – Mechanical Engineering Department
Reynaldo Chavez
Mechanical Engineering Department
Former Student - Doctorate
Robert Muyshondt
Graduated: December 2021
Marilyn Delgado
Graduating Thesis: An Experimental Study on Flow-Induced Vibration of a Single and Adjacent Tubes Within a Model Helical Coil Heat Exchanger
Graduated: May 2021
Anas Alwafi
Graduating Thesis: Experimental Measurement of Fluid Mixing at The Scaled Upper Plenum in the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors
Graduated: May 2021
Han Li
Graduating Thesis: “Computational Study on the Interaction between Twin Rectangular Jets”
Graduated: December 2018
Jae Hyung Park
Graduating Thesis: “Natural Convection Circulation in the Upper Plenum of a Scaled Model of Very High Temperature Reactor in the Event of Loss-of-Coolant Accident”
Graduated: August 2016
Robert Park
Graduated: August 2015
Pratanu Roy
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Micro-Channels”
Graduated: December 2014
Tracy Fullerton
Graduating Thesis: ““Numerical study of Convective Heat Transfer in Flat Tube Heat Exchangers Operating in Self-Sustained Oscillatory Flow Regimes”
Graduated: December 2011
Min Seok Ko
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Combined Convective Radiative Heat Transfer in Rectangular Channels”
Graduated: December 2007
Muhammad Ijaz
Graduating Thesis: “Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods to Simulate Unsteady Incompressible Flows”
Graduated: December 2007
Juan Gabriel Barbosa Saldana
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Simulation of Mixed Convection over a Three-Dimensional Horizontal Backward- Facing Step”
Graduated: May 2005
Kang-Hoon Ko
Graduating Thesis: “Heat Transfer in Rectangular Channels with Porous Baffles”
Graduated: December 2004
R. Gupta
Graduating Thesis: “Mixing Studies for Single Point Sampling”
Graduated: May 1999
Haitham M. S Bahaidarah
Graduating Thesis: “A Numerical Study of Heat and Momentum Transfer Over a Bank of Flat Tubes”
Graduated: August 2004
Z. Gou
Graduating Thesis: “Condensation of R410A in a Horizontal Rectangular Channel”
Graduated: August 1998
Hongrui Gong
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Prediction of Shrouded Probe Sampling Performance and a Study of Subgrid Scale Models in Large Eddy Simulation”
Graduated: May 1996
Arnoldo Muyshondt
Graduating Thesis: “Aerosol Deposition in Transport Lines”
Graduated: December 1995
Bijian Fan
Graduating Thesis: “Particle Lift Force and Particle Behavior in Suspension Flows”
Graduated: 1994
J. M. Choi
Graduating Thesis: “Heat Transfer in Serpentine Channels with a Series of Right Angle Turns”
Graduated: December 1993
S.H. Kim
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer in Channels Simulating Electronic Components”
Graduated: May 1993.
Former Student - Master
Justin Dale Mlcak
Graduating Thesis: “Simulation of Three –Dimensional Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in an Array of Parallel Micro-channels”
Graduated: May 2007
Bruno Monte Da Silva Miranda
Graduating Thesis: “A Numerical Study of Convection in a Channel with Porous Baffles”
Graduated: December 2003
Sailesh Raju Chintada
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in 3-D Serpentine Channels Using Collocated Grids”
Graduated: December 1998
V.R. Dileep
Graduating Thesis: “Aerosol Penetration through Transport Lines”
Graduated: December 1996
Jorge Lopez
Graduating Thesis: “A Numerical Analysis of Laminar Convective Heat Transfer in a Three- Dimensional Channel with Baffles”
Graduated: December 1995
J. C. Watson
Graduating Thesis: “A Numerical Analysis of Mixed Convection Between a Series of Parallel Plates”
Graduated: May 1995
Fermin Wong
Graduated Thesis: “Optimization of Aerosol Penetration through Aerosol Transport Lines”
Graduated: May 1992
Asis Nandi
Graduating Thesis: “Design and Development of a Cooling Device for Solid Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”
Graduated: December 1991
John McMath
Graduating Thesis: “Numerical Analysis of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in a Parallel Plate Channel with Normally In-Line Positioned Plates”
Graduated: December 1991
J. P. Lovelady
Graduating Thesis: “The Design, Construction and Calibration of a Heat Exchanger Calorimeter”
Graduated: December 1988
John Steven Schliesing
Graduating Thesis: “The Effect of Alternate Defrost Strategies on the Reverse-Cycle Defrost of an Air-Source Heat Pump”
Graduated: June 1988
R.M Fithen
Graduating Thesis: “Finite Element Analysis of Conjugate Heat Transfer in Axisymmetric Pipe Flows”
Graduated: August 1987