Faculty Profile
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Jaikrishnan R. Kadambi
Professor and Associate Chair
Email: jrkadambi@case.edu
Phone: (216)-368-6456
Office Location: Glennan 415
Professor Kadambi joined the faculty of the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in 1985 where he is currently a Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He and his group have developed a refractive index flow loop to study slurry flow in pipes and slurry pumps using laser based instrumentation, particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser Doppler anemometry (LDA). He has developed a pulsatile heart flow loop which simulates the flow of blood through heart. PIV and LDA are used to study the flow of blood through prosthetic valves, stents and third ventricle. His group has studied flow field in various blood pumps and has been involved in the study of thermo-acoustic power and refrigeration systems.He has more than 100 refereed publications. Prior to joining Case, he was a Senior research Engineer at Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pa where he developed a unique steam cascade to obtain losses in turbine blade passages. Prof. Kadambi is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is also an Adjunct Staff of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Cleveland Clinic.
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering,University of Pittsburgh, 1970
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Jodhpur ,1965
Research Areas
- Multiphase Flows
- Turbomachinery and Energy Processes
- Bio-fluid Mechanics, Cardio-vascular flows
Teaching Interests
- EMAE 352 Thermodynamics in Energy Processes
- EMAE 355 Design of Fluid and Thermal elements
- EMAE 460 Turbomachinery
Books
- Dry Scrubbing Technologies for FGD ( Chapters1 and 5), Kluwer Academic Publishers,Boston,1998
Articles
- J.R. Kadambi, P.Charoenngam, A. Subramanian, M.P.Wernet, J. Sankovic and G. Addie, “Investigations of Particle Velocities in a Slurry Pump Using PIV: Part 1,The Tongue and Adjacent Channel Flow”, ASME’s Journal Energy Resources Technology, December,2004.
- Van de Wall, A. G., Kadambi, J. R., and Adamczyk, J. J. A Transport Model for the Deterministic Stresses Associated With Turbomachinery Blade Row Interactions. ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 122: 593–603, 2000.
- Chen RC, Kadambi JR. Discrimination between solid and liquid velocities in slurry flow using LDV. Powder Technology 1995; 85.
- Subramanian, A., Mu, H., Kadambi, J. R., Wernet, M. P., Brendzel, A.M., Harasaki, H., “PIV Investigation of Intra-Valvular Flow Fields of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve in a Pulsatile Flow”, Journal of Heart Valve Disease, v9, #5, September, 2000.
- B. Zerai , B.Z. Saylor , J.R. Kadambi , M. Oliver, A.R. Mazaheri, G. Ahmadi, G.S.Bromhal, and D.H. Smith: 2004, “Flow Characterization through a Network Cell using Particle Image Velocimetry”, Transport in Porous Media, v60, pp159-181, December, 2005.
Honors & Awards
- Fellow of American society of Mechanical Engineers