Vijay Modi
220 S. W. Mudd, Mail Code: 4703
Phone: +1 212-854-2956
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Vijay Modi is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University. (Ph.D. Cornell 1984, postdoctoral work MIT 1984–1986). His expertise is in the field of: energy sources and conversion, heat/mass transfer, and fluid mechanics. His current areas of research interest are related to: energy infrastructure, CO2 sequestration (with Prof. Lackner in Earth and Environmental Engineering), fuel cells, distributed sensing/control of flow, and heat transfer.
Publications
Hong S., Tang., Djukic D., Tucay A., Bakhru S., Osgood R., Yardley J., West A., Modi V., Simulation and Experimental Validation of Electro-osmotic Flow in a Microfluidic Channel, to be presented at the MEMS Conference 2001, Berkeley, California, August 2001. PDFFile
Zhe, J., Farmer K. R. and Modi, V., A MEMS Device for Measurement of Skin Friction with Capacitative Sensing, to be presented at the MEMS Conference 2001, Berkeley, California, August 2001.
Karvountzi G., Themelis N. J. and Modi V., Maximum Distribution Distance of Cogenerated Heat Provided To An Urban Community, to be presented at the ASHRAE Winter Meeting, January 2002.
Chen, M., Chen Q., Zhe J. and Modi, V., High Schmidt Mass Transfer Using Chapman-Kuhn’s Near Wall Coherent Structure Model, International Journal Of Heat And Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, 3833-3842, 2001.
Chalupa R., Chen M., Modi V., and West A., High Schmidt Mass Transfer in a Turbulent Impinging Slot Jet Flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, 3775-3785, 2001.
Zhe, Jiang and Modi, V., Shear Measurements in Semi-confined Turbulent Impinging Slot Jet, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 123, pp. 112-120, March 2001.
Chalupa R., Chen M., Modi V., and West A., Limiting Current Density on a Line Electrode in Impinging Slot-Jet Flows, J. of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 148(2), pp.E92-E96, 2001.
Cholaseuk D., Srinivasan V. and Modi V., Robustness in Optimum Design of Freeform Mechanical Parts, presented at the 20th Annual ASME International Computers and Information Engineering Conference, October 2000.
Chen, M, Chalupa R., West A. and Modi, V. “High Schmidt Mass Transfer in a Laminar Impinging Slot Jet Flow", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 43, 3907-3915, 2001.
Chen, K., Yao, Y. L., and Modi, V., “Gas Jet - Workpiece Interactions in Laser Machining,” ASME Trans. J. of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 122, No. 3, 429-438, 2000.
Modi, V., and West A., Mass Transfer Problems in Electrochemical Systems, Proceedings of the Fourth ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, pp. 117-127, January 2000.
Nunes E. M., Modi V., Naraghi M. H. N., Analysis of Radiative Transfer in Arbitrarily-Shaped Axisymmetric Enclosures with Anisotropically Scattering Media, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 43, 3275-3285, 2000.
Yang, J. D., West A. and Modi V., Analysis of Mass Transfer and Fluid Flow for Electrochemical Processes, Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, Vol. 32, Ed. B.E. Conway, J. O’M. Bockris and Ralph E. White, Kluwer/Plenum, 1999.
Cholaseuk D., Srinivasan V. and Modi V., Shape Optimization For Fluid Flow Problems Using Bezier Curves And Designed Numerical Experiment, Proceedings of the 19th ASME International Computer and Information in Engineering Conference, 1999.
Chen, Q. and Modi, V., “Mass Transfer in Turbulent Impinging Slo
Vidal, R., West A., Modi V. and Fuller T., "Control Volume Techniques for Modelling of Fuel-Cell and Battery Systems", presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Chemical Engineers, San Francisco, 1994.
DeBecker, B., Duby P., Modi, V. and West, A., "Mass Transfer to a Line Electrode in Presence of a Periodic Fluid Flow", Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 142, pp. 3001-3007, 1995.
DeBecker, D. Yang, B., Duby P., Modi, V. and West, A., "Mass Transfer Limited Current Distributions on Electrode Arrays in Presence of a Periodic Fluid Flow", Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 142, pp 3413, 1995.
Huan, J.-C. and Modi, V., "Design of Drag Minimizing Bodies in Incompressible Laminar Flow", in CFD for Design and Optimization, ASME FED Vol. 232, pp. 37-44, 1995.
Cabuk, H. and Modi, V., "Adjoint Variable Formulations for Compressible Potential and Euler Flows", submitted to Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 1993.
Quadracci, H. R. and Modi, V., "Modeling Aeroelastic Interactions in Continuous Web Manufacturing", presented at the Symposium on Advances in Information Storage and Processing Systems, ASME, WAM 1993.
Huan, J.-C. and Modi, V., "Optimum Design of Drag Minimizing Bodies in Incompressible Flow", Inverse Problems in Engineering, Vol. 1, pp. 1-25, 1994.
Zhang, J, Chu C.K, and Modi, V., "Design of Plane Diffusers in Turbulent Flow", Vol. 2, pp. 85-102, Inverse Problems in Engineering, 1995.
Wang, X.-D., Modi, V. and West, A., "Limiting Current Density on Line Electrode in the Presence of a Tangential Oscillating Fluid Flow", Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 131, 2753, 1994.
Modi, V., "Modeling Bristle lift-off in Idealized Brush Seal Configurations", Seals Flow Code Development-92, NASA C.P. 10124, pp. 217-232, August 1992.
Modi, V., "Design of Ninety Degree Bends", Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop for Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Rocket Propulsion, NASA Publication 3163, part 2, 1992, pp. 1397-1426.
Cabuk, H. and Modi, V., "Optimum Plane Diffusers in Laminar Flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol 237, pp. 373-393, 1992.
Quadracci, H. R. and Modi, V., "Characterization of Process Parameters for High-Speed Heat-Set Web Offset Lithography", Proceedings of the 1992 Design Manufacturing Systems Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1992, pp. 177-181.
Quadracci, H. R. and Modi, V., "Cooling of Paper using Chill Rollers", Drying Technology, Vol. 10, no. 1, 1992, pp. 199-212.
Cabuk, H., Sung, C.-H. and Modi, V., "Explicit Runge-Kutta Method for Three-dimensional Internal Incompressible Flows", AIAA Journal, Vol. 30, no. 8, 1992, pp. 2024-2031.
Cabuk, H., Sung C.-H. and Modi, V., "Adjoint Operator Approach to Shape Design for Internal Incompressible Flows", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Inverse Design Concepts and Optimization, Washington D. C., October 1991, pp. 391-404.
Cabuk, H. and Modi, V., "Shape Optimization Analysis - First and Second Order Necessary Conditions," Vol. 11, pp. 17, Optimal Control Application and Methods, 1990.
Elpidorou, D., Prasad, V., and Modi, V., "Convection in a Vertical Channel with a Finite Wall Heat Source, "International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 34, pp. 573-578, 1991.
Cabuk, H. and Modi, V., "Optimum Design of Oblique Flow Headers", ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 97, Part I, pp. 803-813, 1991.
Araya, R. and Modi, V., "A New Algorithm for Inverse Design of Flow Headers," Advances in Design Automation, ed. S. S. Rao, ASME, Vol. DE-14, pp. 333, 1988.
Cabuk, H. and Modi, V., "On the Design of Optimum Flow Headers for Heat Exchangers," Heat Transfer Equipment Fundamentals, Ed. R. K. Shah, ASME, HTD-Vol. 108, 1989.
Modi, V., Gnafakis, C. and Gryte, C. C., "X-ray Computed Tomography of Horizontal Two-phase Pipe Flow," Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol. 116, 1992, pp. 117-125.
Modi, V., "Comment on Bubbles Rising in a Tube and Jets Falling from a Nozzle," The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 28, pp. 3432, 1985.
Modi, V. and Torrance, K. E., "An Experimental and Numerical Study of Cold Inflow at the Exit of Buoyant Channel Flows," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 109, pp. 392, 1987.
Modi, V. and Moore, F. K., "Laminar Separation in Buoyant Channel Flows," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 177, pp. 37, 1987.
Modi, V. and Sukhatme, S. P., "Estimation of Daily Total and Diffuse Insulation in India from Weather Data," Solar Energy, Vol. 22, pp. 407-411, 1979.
Internal Unpublished Reports (Available upon request)
Quadracci, H. R., Voss, K., and Modi, V., "Mechanics of Web Motion Over an Air-bar, Part I - Steady State Analysis," Internal Report, 1996.
Modi, V. and Quadracci, H. R., "Mechanics of Web Motion Over an Air-bar, Part II - Dynamic Analysis," Internal Report, 1996.