BRIEF BIODATA OF

Mihir Sen
Professor Emeritus
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

E-mail: Mihir.Sen.1[at]nd.edu
Webpage: www.nd.edu/~msen

Mihir Sen completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India in 1968. He studied in the Department of Mechanics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA, USA from where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1975. He worked for the next ten years in the Faculty of Engineering (Facultad de Ingeniería) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He was one year as Visiting Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA before joining the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, USA, from which he retired in 2017.

His graduate research was first in experiments relating to the measurement of turbulence (under the supervision of Professor L.S.G. Kovasznay) and then in the generation of surface waves by wind (supervised by Professor E. Mollo-Christensen). His research as professor was in fluid mechanics, heat transfer and mathematical modeling. He has worked and published in several areas including reacting flows, falling films, natural and forced convection, chaos and mixing, boiling, MEMS applications, heat exchangers, flow in porous media, thermal control, intelligent systems and soft computing, flow in thermal-hydraulic networks, hydrodynamics of electron flow, fractional-order derivatives, and complex systems. He is a Fellow of the ASME.