Awards & Conference Papers

• 2017Technology Transfer  (Producing Energy by Nuclear Reaction)
• 2008 Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Professional
• 2008 NASA-LaRC Green Lecture Series
• 2007 SAE AeroTech 
• 2007 NASA 50-year Service Award
• 2006 Honorary Member of the Italian Society for the Progress of Science
• 2005 Cryogenic Engineering Recognition Award
• 2004 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Environmental Excellence in Transportation runner up
• 2003 International Symposium on Stability Control of Rotating Machinery Award
• 2003 Outstanding contributions to control and stability of rotating machinery
• 2001 International Symposium on Stability Control of Rotating Machinery award for work in Tribology
• 1994 Outstanding Research Contributions in the area of thermos-fluid dynamics of seals in rotating machinery
• 1991 Silver Snoopy: The astronaut's award for research contributions to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME)
• 1991 Appointment to the Senior Scientific and Professional Corps. NASA- Daniel Golden Administrator
• 1988 H.H. Jeffcott Award for Outstanding Work on Turbomachine Stability
• 1985 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for "Outstanding Research in Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermophysical Properties of Cryogenic Fluids, Which Contributed Immeasurably to NASA's Hydrogen-Oxygen Chemical Rocketry Technology",  Dr. Raymond R. Colloday 
• 1984 Bently Nevada Senior Mechanical Engineering Seminar Award
• 1973 Cryogenic Engineering Conference Russell B. Scott Memorial Award for Outstanding Cryogenic Research
• 1962 American Society of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Best Papers Award for Boiling Heat Transfer Studies (Los Angeles)
• 1961 NASA Superior Performance Award for Solving Complicated Experimental Problems and Important Contributions in Cryogenic Heat Transfer Research

Conference Papers:

• Computational Parametric Study of Fuel Distribution in an Experimental Trapped Vortex Combustor Sector Rig  - Jan 2004 
• Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of the Adaptive Finger Seal Assembly Using CFD-ACE+/FemStress  - Jan 2003 
• Gas turbine primary-secondary flowpath interaction - Transient, coupled simulations and comparison with experiments  - Jul 2001
• Supersonic flow measurement and computation of a lobed-mixer for trapped vortex combustors  - Sep 2001 
• Simulation of power-stream and turbine disc cavity flow interaction under transient conditions  - Jul 1996 
• Numerical Simulation of Secondary Flow in Gas Turbine Disc Cavities, Including Conjugate Heat Transfer  - Jun 1996
• Progress in advanced modeling of turbine engine seal flows - June 1994
• TWO-PHASE FLOWS AND HEAT TRANSFER WITHIN SYSTEMS WITH AMBIENT PRESSURE ABOVE THE THERMODYNAMIC CRITICAL PRESSURE -Jan 1986 
• THE DRYOUT REGION IN FRICTIONALLY HEATED SLIDING CONTACTS -Jan 1982