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James R. Welty

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Professor Emeritus

Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics

B.S. 1954, M.S. 1959 (Mechanical Engineering) Oregon State University; Ph.D. 1962, (Chemical Engineering) Oregon State University.

At OSU since 1958.
Office: Rogers 322
Telephone: 737-4902
weltyj@engr.orst.edu

Current Research Interests

Research areas of interest currently include fluidized bed heat transfer, radiation through arrays of discrete surfaces, microscale fluid mechanics and a variety of numerical heat transfer studies.

A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Dr. Welty's current research efforts are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and Tektronix, Incorporated. Previous support has included Batelle, EPA, DOA, AEC, and ERDA.