Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor

3024 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2656
e-mail: pletcheriastate.edu

Education
Cornell University, Ph.D., 1966
Cornell University, M.S., 1962
Purdue University, B.S., 1957

Areas of Interest
Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer
Modeling of turbulent transport mechanisms
Environmental applications of fluid mechanics

Recent Publications
Dailey, L. D., N. Meng, and R.H. Pletcher, "Large Eddy Simulation of Constant Heat Flux Turbulent Channel Flow with Property Variations: Quasi-Developed Model and Mean Flow Results," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 125, 2003

Avancha, R. V. R. and R. H. Pletcher, " Large Eddy Simulation of the Turbulent Flow Pasta Backward-Facing Step with Heat Transfer and Property Variations," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 23, pp. 601-614, 2002.

Lee, J.S., Y. Liu, and R.H. Pletcher, "Large Eddy Simulation of the Effects of Rotation of Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Channel," Heat Transfer 2002, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Heat Transfer Conference, Elsevier, 2002.

Tannehill, J. C., R.H. Pletcher, and R.G. Hindeman, "CFD Education at Iowa State University," Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp 208-213. 2000.

Chidambaram, N. and R. H. Pletcher, "A Colocated-Grid Fully Coupled Algorithm for Large Eddy simulation of Incompressible and Compressible Flows," Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, Vol. 37, pp 1-23, 2000.