Mechanical Engineering

 

Willard C. Schreiber, Jr.
Associate Professor

Teaching

Research

Service


Education:

Degree Major Institution Date
Ph.D. Mechanical  Engineering University of Kentucky 1985
M.S.E. Civil Engineering Purdue University 1981
M.S.E. Environmental/Water Resources Vanderbilt University 1977
B.A. Physics/Math Vanderbilt University 1970

Industrial and Research Laboratory Experience:

  • Instructor in Civil Engineering, West Virginia Institute of Technology, 1978 - 1979
  • Consulting Engineer at Associated Water and Air Resources Engineering, Nashville, TN, 1977 - 1978.
  • Naval Officer, Main Propulsion Assistant,  1970 -1974

Instructional Activities:

  • Undergraduate Courses- Engineering Analysis, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics I, Thermodynamics II
  • Graduate Courses- Intermediate Heat Transfer, Analytical Methods in Heat Transfer, Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer.

Research Activities: Numerical heat transfer; nuclear waste remediation.


Principal Publications for Last Five Years:

  • The Numerical simulation of heat conduction in irregularly-shaped materials of thermally-dependent properties," W. C. Schreiber; Invited Paper in The International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering; vol. 30, pp. 679-696, (1990).
  • "The Development of a Vectorized Computer Code for Solving Three-Dimensional, Transient Heat Convection Problems," C. H. Chuan and W. C. Schreiber, Advanced Computational Methods in Heat Transfer, vol. 2, pp. 147-158, 1990.
  • "Vectorization of the PISO Method for Solving Three-Dimensional, Transient Heat Convection Problems on Machines with Pipelined Architectures," C. H. Chuan and W. C. Schreiber, Supercomputer; vol. 5, pp. 45-51, 1990.
  • "A numerical study of interfacial pattern formation in the presence of solidification and thermal convection," Kuo, C. H., Schreiber, W. C., and Chuan, Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems, ed. Lewis, R. W., Chin, J. H., and Homsy, G. M, vol.7, pp.112-121, 1991.
  • "The effect of convection on the interface location between solid and liquid aluminum," Chuan, C, H., Schreiber, W. C., Kuo, C. H., and Ganesh, S., Mixed Convection Heat Transfer, ed. Pepper, D. W., Armaly, B. F., Ebadian, M. A., and Oosthuizen, P. H.; HTD-Vol. 163, pp. 79-84, 1991.
  • "A comparison of two algorithms vectorized to solve transient, convective heat transfer on supercomputers," Ganesh, S, Schreiber, W. C., Chuan, C. H., and Sharif, M. A. R., Applications of Supercomputers in Engineering, ed. Brebbia, C. A., Howard, D., and Peters, A., 1991.
  • "Lanczos-ORTHOMIN Method applied to control volume for solving transient, incompressible fluid flow on supercomputers," Nieplocha, J. and Schreiber, W., Modern Developments in Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer, ASME HTC proc. 1992.
  • "Numerical experiments on the simulation of Benard convection using marker and cell method", Kuo, C. H., Sharif, M. A. R., and Schreiber, W. C., Chemical Engineering Communications, (August, 1993).
  • "On solidification in the presence of thermo-solutal convection with Soret effect," Hadji, L., Jin, X., and Schreiber, W., accepted by SECTAM 94, 17th Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, April 1994, Hot Springs Arkansas.

Honors and Awards:

  • Outstanding Research Paper in the College of Engineering for 1989-1990 Academic Year
  • ASEE (southeastern section) Outstanding Contribution in Research Runner-Up, April 1991.
  • Graduate Advisee won Best Ph. D. Dissertation in College of Engineering for 1989-1990 Academic Year

Professional Service:

  • ME Department Graduate Director
  • Member ASME Heat Transfer Division Committee K-19, Environmental Division