Mahadevan Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Higgins Laboratories
508-831-5236 (Voice)
508-831-5680 (Fax)
padu@wpi.edu
Related Information
Education
Research & Teaching Interests
IQP Advising Interests
Water pollution; hydra energy; other renewable energy
Research
Selected projects conducted at Alden Research Laboratory, Inc., include:
Physical Modeling of Pump Sumps – Cooling Tower Pump Intake for J.S. Rainey Generating Station, S C; Union Park Pumping Station for Boston Water & Sewer Commission; Mamaroneck Wastewater Pumping Station, NY; Salem Nuclear Power Station Cooling Water Pump Intake
Physical Modeling of Hydraulic Structures - Velocity distribution in the tailrace structure, Summersville Hydropower Project, West Virginia; evaluation of side channel spillway for Englewood Dram, Ohio; flow patterns in a chute spillway, Lake Fort Smith Project, Arkansas
Analytical Modeling of Closed Conduit Flow Transients - Seabrook, cooling water system transient flow study; Town of South Windsor, pipeline failure analysis; Manchester Station Repowering Project, underground waterline transients; V.C. Summer Power Station, cooling water system transients
Analytical Modeling of Thermal Discharges - Analyses of thermal discharge for Taiwan Power Company and Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
Reactor Sump Hydraulics - Containment Sump Reliability studies for Sandia National Laboratory and the NRC; BWR Strainer Head Loss studies for SEA, Inc. and the NRC; Containment Sump Model studies for McGuire, North Anna, D.C. Cook, and Seabrook Nuclear Power Stations
Publications
- "Air Entrainment in a partially Filled Horizontal Pump Suction Line", International Joint Power Generation Conference, ASME, New Orleans, June 4-6, 2001 (with R.C.Sanders, L.A.Smith, A.Johansson and D.R.Hafer)
- "Numerical Simulation of Flow Distribution and Swirl due to Combined Pipe Bend", ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., July 18-21, 1999 (with Stuart Cain)
- "Numerical Simulation of Airflow through the Inlet Duct of a Gas to Air Heat Exchanger" 1998 International Joint Power Generation Conference, August 23-26, Baltimore, Maryland, (with Stuart Cain)
- "Hydraulic Model Evaluation of Tailrace Flow Patterns at the Proposed Summersville Hydroelectric Project ", 1998 ASDSO Conference, October 11-15, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada (with Paul Cyr and Andrew Johansson)
- "Effect of Dual Flow Screens on the Hydraulic Performance of Pump Intakes", 27 th Congress of IAHR, San Francisco, CA, August 10-15, 1997. (with D.K.White and J.Larsen)