Richard Sayles

Emeritus Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Principal Sponsors

M.P., G. S. Edwards, Haines, Lundberg, Waehler Assoc., Duratherm Window Co.

Professional Memberships

ASME

Collaboration Activities

  • Approximate solutions for viscous and thermal boundary layers on elongating surfaces.
  • Approximate Solution for the Viscous Boundary Layer Flow Longitudinal to a Cylinder.
  • Interaction Between Radiation and Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Horizontally Baffled Enclosure.
  • Calibration of Photovoltaic Cells for use as Pyranometers.

“Approximate Solution for the Viscous Boundary Layer Flow Longitudinal to a Cylinder,” AIChE J., 36, No. 12, pp.1917-1919, 1990.

“Calibration of Photovoltaic Cells for use as Pyranometers” , Report to Central Maine Power Co., June 1989.

“Interaction Between Radiation and Natural Convection Heat Transfer in a Horizontally Baffled Enclosure”, with J. H. Poland, G. L. Lucarelli, and T. Norton; presented by Poland at the International Congress on Renewable Resources, Madrid, Spain, 1986.

“A Local Similarity Solution for the Viscous Boundary Layer Flow Longitudinal to a Cylinder, AIAA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 5 1984.

“A Finite Element Analysis of the Upper Jet Region of a Glass Fiber Drawing Flow Field”, with B. Caswell; presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Finite Elements and Flow Problems, Austin, Texas, 1984.

Education

Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University, 1981
Portrait of Rick Sayles
Emeritus Associate Professor