Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak
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Born	11 February 1945 Tanta, Egypt
🏳️ Nationality	American
🎓 Alma mater	Ain Shams University B.Sc.; Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.
💼 Occupation
🌐 Website	www.people.vcu.edu/~gadelhak/

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak (born 1945) is an engineering scientist, currently the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of biomedical engineering and professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Biography

Gad-el-Hak was born on 11 February 1945 in Tanta, Egypt. Gad-el-Hak is an engineering scientist, globally known in the field of classical physics and the subfields of mechanics, biomechanics, fluid mechanics, turbulence, flow control, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfluidics, and nanotechnology. He is a writer of technical as well as non-technical books, articles, and essays.

Gad-el-Hak was senior research scientist and program manager at Flow Research Company in Seattle, Washington, and then professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, finally coming to Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002 as chair of mechanical engineering, subsequently expanded to mechanical and nuclear engineering.

Scientific work

Gad-el-Hak is known for developing novel diagnostic tools for turbulent flows, including the laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique for flow visualization; and for discovering the efficient mechanism via which a turbulent region rapidly grows by destabilizing a surrounding laminar flow. He has conducted the seminal experiments that detailed the fluid–compliant surface interactions in turbulent boundary layers; introduced the concept of targeted control to achieve drag reduction, lift enhancement, and mixing augmentation in wall-bounded flows; and developed a novel viscous pump suited for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) applications. His work on Reynolds number effects in turbulent boundary layers, published in 1994, marked a paradigm shift in the subject. His 1999 paper on the fluid mechanics of microdevices established the fledgling field on firm physical grounds and is one of the most cited articles of the 1990s.

Gad-el-Hak is the author of the book Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management, and editor of the books Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Advances in Fluid Mechanics Measurements, Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices, The MEMS Handbook (three volumes), and Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and Mitigation.

Gad-el-Hak authored 140 journal papers and 52 essays in magazines and newspapers. He has been featured in NPR, PBS, Nature, and The New York Times. Additional to working in the broad field of mechanics, he penned essays and op-eds on global warming, energy crisis, proliferation of scholarly publications, massive open online courses (MOOC), university governance, STEM and the humanities, engineering education, and societal values of basic research.

Honors

Gad-el-Hak has been a member of several advisory panels for DOD, DOE, NASA, and NSF. During the 1991/1992 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Institut de Mécanique de Grenoble, France. During the summers of 1993, 1994, and 1997, he was, respectively, a distinguished faculty fellow at Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island, a visiting exceptional professor at Université de Poitiers, France, and a Gastwissenschaftler (guest scientist) at Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.

Gad-el-Hak is a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, a fellow and life member of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Institute of Physics, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the European Mechanics Society. Gad-el-Hak served as editor of eight international journals, including AIAA Journal, Applied Mechanics Reviews, and Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is additionally a contributing editor for Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Engineering and Lecture Notes in Physics, for McGraw-Hill’s Year Book of Science and Technology, and for CRC Press’s Mechanical Engineering Series.

To honor Professor Gad-el-Hak, six academicians from three countries penned the editorial “Homage to a Legendary Dynamicist on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday”. The article appeared in the July 2020 issue of the Journal of Fluids Engineering.

Awards

In 1998, Gad-el-Hak was named the 14th American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Freeman Scholar. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize as well as the Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Scholars. In 2002, he was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer. Gad-el-Hak has also been awarded the ASME Medal for seminal contributions to the discipline of fluids engineering, as well as a Certificate of Appreciation in testimony of the high regard of his associates and the deep appreciation of the society for his valued services in advancing the engineering profession.

Selected publications

• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2019) “Coherent Structures and Flow Control: Genesis and Prospect,” Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, vol. 67, pp. 411–444.
• Zhu, Y., Lee, C., Chen, X., Wu, J., Chen, S., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2018) “Newly Identified Principle for Aerodynamic Heating in Hypersonic Flows,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 855, pp. 152–180.
• Ullah, R., Khraisheh, M., Esteves, R.J., McLeskey, J.T., AlGhouti, M., Gad-el-Hak, M., and Vahedi, Tafreshi, H. (2018) “Energy Efficiency of Direct Contact Membrane Distillation,” Desalination, vol. 433, pp. 56–67.
• Hemeda, A.A., Esteves, R.J.A., McLeskey, J.T., Gad-el-Hak, M., Khraisheh, M., and Vahedi Tafreshi, H. (2018) “Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Fibrous Distillation Membranes,” International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 98, pp. 304–309.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (1999) “The Fluid Mechanics of Microdevices—The Freeman Scholar Lecture,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 121, pp. 5–33.
• Sen, M., Wajerski, D., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (1996) “A Novel Pump for MEMS Applications,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 118, pp. 624–627.
• Gad-el-Hak, M., and Bandyopadhyay, P.R. (1994) “Reynolds Number Effects in Wall-Bounded Flows,” Applied Mechanics Reviews, vol. 47, pp. 307–365.

External links

• Mohamed Gad-el-Hak publications indexed by Google Scholar

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