Prof. Yogesh Jaluria
Award Year: 1994 | Degree Year: 1970
Prof. Yogesh Jaluria was born on September 8, 1949, at Nabha, Punjab. He received a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1970 standing first in the graduating class. He obtained M.S. and Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972 and 1974, respectively.
Prof. Jaluria currently occupies the position of Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, a rare distinction. Before joining Rutgers, he worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1976-80), and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Princeton (1974-76).
During the past two decades, Prof. Jaluria has extensively researched in several diverse areas, particularly natural and mixed convection heat transfer, enclosure fires, fire spread, thermal processing of materials, thermal plumes, design of thermal systems, computational heat transfer, energy systems, and food processing. His fundamental work on buoyancy flows is widely used and quoted. His work on discrete heat sources located on an otherwise insulated vertical plate is the very first study on simulating microelectronics cooling. Researchers in the development of zone models for fire research have benefited greatly by the incisive research. Prof. Jaluria was able to utilize his heat transfer studies in stratified media in conjunction with energy storage-tank and solar pond applications to apply directly to fire dynamics in rooms. His more recent interest has been heat transfer studies in material processing and simulation of food materials on the basis of non-Newtonian mechanics.
His work has been extensively supported by Federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, by the State of New Jersey and by industry. He has also interacted with several industries and research centers in these research areas.
Prof. Jaluria has written over 125 research papers including 84 in archival journals and 10 chapters in books. He has about 70 other publications, presentations, and technical reports. He has two patents in materials processing and is the author of three graduate-level books and an undergraduate textbook. All these books have received outstanding reviews. He is also co-editor of four conference proceedings.
Prof. Jaluria has received several honors and awards including a Young Scientist Medal from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and a certificate of recognition from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. He has been invited as a Distinguished Lecturer to NATO Advanced Study Institutes and as Research Leader to NSF Workshop. He was invited as a Keynote Speaker to international conferences and as a seminar speaker to many universities and research laboratories. He is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He is also a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board on a number of international journals such as Numerical Heat Transfer, Sadhana etc.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Member of the American Physical Society and of the Combustion Institute.
In honoring Prof. Yogesh Jaluria, we recognize his excellent research, scholarship, teaching, and professional leadership which has earned him recognition in the worldwide scientific community and through an exceptional record of achievements brought glory to the name of the Institute.
