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Emmanuel Kobla Glakpe,
Ph.D, P.E. Professor

  1. Glakpe, E.K. and Smith, S.E., "Energy Alternatives in a Predominantly Rural Society - A West African Example," Proceedings of the Second International
    Conference on Energy Use Management
    , C.B. Smith and
    R.A. Fazzolare, Eds., Pergamon Press, 1979.
  2. Glakpe, E.K. and Fazzolare, R.A., "Energy Resources and Economic Development in West Africa," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Energy Use Management, R.A. Fazzolare and C.B. Smith, Eds., Pergamon Press, 1981.
  3. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Cannon, J.N., "Natural Convection Solutions Between Concentric and Eccentric Horizontal Cylinders with Specified
    Heat Flux Boundaries," Heat Transfer in Enclosures, R.W. Douglass and A.F. Emery, Eds., HTD-Vol. 39, pp. 79-86, ASME 1984.
  4. Glakpe, E.K. and Fazzolare, R.A., "Economic Demand
    Analysis for Electricity in West Africa," The Energy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 137-144, 1985.

  5. Collier, A.S., Watkins, C.B., Glakpe, E.K. and Cannon, J.N., "Natural Convection in a Horizontal Annular Enclosure Formed by Concentric Square Cylinders: An Experimental Study," Proceedings of NOBCCHE Twelve Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1985.

  6. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Kurien, B., "Numerical Computation of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Vertical Enclosure," Numerical
    Methods in Laminar and Turbulent Flow
    , C. Taylor, M.D. Olson, P.M. Gresho and W.G. Habashi, Eds., Pineridge Press, Swansea, U.K., 1985.

  7. Collier, A.S., Cannon, J.N., Glakpe, E.K. and Watkins, C.B., "Laser Anemometry Measurements of Natural Convection in an Annular Enclosure," presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the National Technical Association, Houston, Texas, July 1985.
  8. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Cannon, J.N.,"Constant Heat Flux Solutions for Natural Convection Between Concentric and Eccentric Horizontal
    Cylinders," Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 279-295, 1986.

  9. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Kurien, B., "Solution of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection About a Vertical Square Rod in a Cylindrical Enclosure," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 7, pp. 155-173, 1987.
  10. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Kurien, B., "Computation of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in an Irregular Enclosure with Mixed Boundary Conditions," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Mechanics
    (ICCM86), Vol.2, pp.VIII-196 to VIII-200, Tokyo, Japan, May 1986.

  11. Glakpe, E.K. and Watkins, C.B., "Effect of Radiation on Natural Convection in a Vertical Annular Region with a Rectangular Inner Boundary," AIAA Paper No. 86-1351, AIAA/ASME Heat Transfer and Thermophysics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 1986.

  12. Asfaw, A., and Glakpe, E.K., "A Finite-Difference Procedure for Convection-Diffusion Problems in Irregular Geometries," Transactions of the American
    Nuclear Society
    , Vol.53, p.257, 1986.

  13. Glakpe, E.K., Watkins, C.B. and Cannon, J.N., "Laminar Natural Convection Between Concentric and Eccentric Horizontal Cylinders with Mixed Boundary
    Conditions and Radiation," Proceedings of the 2nd ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Vol.2, pp.227-233, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 22-27, 1987.
  14. Glakpe, E.K. and Watkins, C.B., "Effect of Mixed Boundary Conditions on Natural Convection in Concentric and Eccentric Annular Enclosures," AIAA Paper No. 87-1591, 22nd Thermophysics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1987.
  15. Washington, E.E., Cannon, J.N., Glakpe, E.K. and Agonafer, D., "Numerical Study of Branch Flow Ratio, Branch Angle, and Reynolds Number Effects on the Flow Field in a Two-Dimensional Bifurcation," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of NOBCChE, 14, San Francisco, March 1988.
  16. Thornhill, A.M. and Glakpe, E.K., "Laminar and Turbulent Natural Convection in Boundary-Fitted Coordinates." Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems, R.W. Lewis and K. Morgan, Eds., Pineridge Press, Swansea U.K., May 1987.

  17. Collier, A.S., Watkins, C.B., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N. and Harris, V.G., "Laser Anemometry Measurements of Natural Convection in an Annular Enclosure," Journal of the NTA, Vol.61, No.1, pp.26-33, July 1987.
  18. Glakpe, E.K. and Asfaw, A., "Prediction of Natural Convection Around a Horizontal Hexagonal Rod in a Cylindrical Enclosure", Convective Transport, Y. Jaluria, R.S. Figliola and M. Kaviany, Eds., HTD-Vol.82, pp.101-109, ASME 1987.

  19. Thornhill, A.M., Glakpe, E.K., and Agonafer, D., "Prediction of Natural Convection in Horizontal Annular Enclosures at High Rayleigh Numbers", International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 15, No.6, pp.785-797, 1988.
  20. Glakpe, E.K., "A Solution Method for Natural Convection in Enclosures with Inner Bodies of Arbitrary Shapes", Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Mechanics '88, S. Sengupta, J. Hauser, P.R. Eiseman, and J.F. Thompson, Eds.,
    Pineridge Press, Swansea, U.K., 1988.

  21. Glakpe, E.K. and Berhanu, E., "A Numerical Study of Mixed Convection around a Cylinder in a Cylindrical Enclosure", Book of Abstracts, 7th International
    Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modeling
    , Chicago, U.S.A., August 1989.
  22. Glakpe, E.K., "BODYFIT-SFS: A Numerical Code for the Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Spent Fuel Configurations in Boundary-Fitted Coordinates", Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the INMM, Vol. XIX, pp. 480-486, July 1990.

  23. Reiss, R., Glakpe, E.K., and Qian, B., " A Model for Thermally Induced Interlaminar Stresses," Proc. XXII Int. Symp. on Heat and Mass Transfer in
    Manufacturing Technologies
    ," Dubrovnik, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Aug. 1990
  24. Glakpe, E.K., and Noorshahi, S., "Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in an Enclosure with a Corrugated Heated Surface", Proceedings of the 3rd ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 181-190, Reno, Nevada, March 1991.

  25. Glakpe, E.K., "A Computational Procedure for Natural Convection Heat Transfer from Irregular Surfaces", Proceedings, AIAA 10th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, pp. 977-978, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1991.

  26. Glakpe, E.K., and Asfaw, A., "Prediction of Two-Dimensional Natural Convection with Inner Bodies of Arbitrary Shapes", Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 20, pp.279-296, 1991.

  27. Rao, Y.F., and Glakpe, E.K., "Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Rod Bundle -- A Numerical Study in Boundary-Fitted Coordinates", Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems Vol. VII, pp. 446-456, 1991.
  28. Rao, Y.F., and Glakpe, E.K., "Natural Convection in a Vertical Slot Filled with Porous Medium", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 13, No.1, pp. 97-99, March 1992.

  29. Noorshahi, S., Hall, C., and Glakpe, E.K., "Effect of Mixed Boundary Conditions on Natural Convection in an Enclosure with a Corrugated Surface", Solar Energy 1992, ASME, Vol. 1, pp. 173-181, April 1992

  30. Rao, Y.F., and Glakpe, E.K., "Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in an Enclosed Vertical Rod Bundle with Mixed Boundary Conditions",
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.36, No.6, pp. 1517-1528, 1993.

  31. Thigpen, L., and Glakpe, E.K., "Introducing Industry Culture in the Engineering Curriculum", Innovations in Engineering Design Education, ASME, pp. 287-290, March 1993.

  32. Glakpe, E.K., and Rao, Y.F., "Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Vertical Rod Bunlde", Proccedings of the 2nd
    ASME/JSME Nuclear Engineering Joint Conference
    , Vol.1, pp. 7-14, March 1993.

  33. Glakpe, E.K. and Berhanu, E., "Numerical Prediction of Laminar Natural Convection from a Horizontal Square Cylinder", AIAA Paper No.93-2795, 28th Thermophysics Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 1993.
  34. Glakpe, E.K., Mukira, D., and Precilla, G., "Finite Difference Analysis of Three Dimensional Natural in Non-Orthogonal Coordinates", AIAA Paper No.94-1972, 6th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Colorado Springs, June 1994.

  35. Precilla, G., Glakpe, E.K., and Mukira, D., "The Numerical Computation of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Horizontal Enclosure", Proceedings of the ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 223-232, March 1995.

  36. Precilla, G., Grimmett, I., Hall, C., and Glakpe, E., "Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Corrugated Enclosure", Proceedings of the 30th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Paper # RE-31, Vol. 2, pp. 591-600, August 1995.

  37. Hall, C.A., III, Glakpe, E.K., and Grimmett, I.W., "Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Horizontal Cylinder Subject to Mixed Boundary Conditions", Proceedings of the ASME Heat Division, 1995 IMECE, HTD-Vol. 317-2, pp. 259-270, Nov. 1995.

  38. Noorshahi, S., Hall, C., and Glakpe, E., "Natural Convection in a Corrugated Enclosure with Mixed Boundary Conditions", Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 118, pp. 50-57, Feb. 1996.

  39. Grimmett, I.W., Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., "Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in an Enclosure with a Corrugated Surface Subject to Mixed Boundary Conditions", Proceedings of the International Solar Energy Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 1996.

  40. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Modeling Cyclic Phase Change and Energy Storage in Solar Heat Receivers", AIAA Paper No.97-2452, 32nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23-25, 1997;also published in the Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, July-Sept. 1998.
  41. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Parametric Analysis of Cyclic Phase Change and Energy Storage in Solar Heat Receivers", Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, Paper # 97053, Vol. 1, pp. 446-453, July 27-August 1, 1997
  42. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Thermal State?of-Charge in Solar Heat Receivers," Proceedings of the 36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, paper # 98?1017, Reno, Nevada, January 1998.
  43. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Transient Thermal State-of-Charge in Solar Heat Receivers," Proceedings of the 37th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, paper # 99?1065, Reno, Nevada, January 1999.
  44. Hall, C.A., III, Glakpe, E.K., and Cannon, J.N., Convection in a Rectangular Duct with a Corrugated Surface, Proceedings of the 34th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC), paper # 199-01-2718,Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1999.

  45. Hall, C.A., III, Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., Thermodynamic Analysis of Space Solar Dynamic Heat Receivers with Cyclic Phase Change,” ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 121, No. 3, pp. 133-144, August 1999.

  46. Hall, C.A., III, Glakpe, E.K., and Cannon, J.N., Unified Semi-Analytic Solutions for Freezing with Two Coalescing Fronts, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 751-759, August 1999.
  47. Thigpen, L., and Glakpe, E.K., "Academic and Industry Cooperation in Mechanical Engineering at Howard University", Proceedings,International Conference on Engineering Education,1999 ess Through Partnership: Strengthening Alliances, Ostrava ? Prague, Czech Republic,August 10-14, 1999

  48. Thigpen, L., and Glakpe, E.K., "The Capstone Design Experience in Mechanical Engineering at Howard University", Proceedings, 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, paper # 11b2-25, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10-13, 1999.

  49. Hall, C.A., III, Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.N., Thermal State-of-Charge of Space Solar Dynamic Heat Receivers, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 666-675, Jul/Aug 2000.

  50. Glakpe, E.K., and McLeod, S.C., “Mixed Convection Heat Transfer in a Corrugated Horizontal Channel” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Vol. 1, Part 1, April 8-10, 2002, pp: 492-497.

  51. Rao, Y.F., and Glakpe, E.K., "Solutions in Boundary-Fitted of Three-Dimensional Natural Convection in a Vertical Rod Bundle", in preparation to be published in a journal.
  52. Rao, Y.F., and Glakpe, E.K., "A Note on Natural Convection in a Very Narrow Vertical Cavity Heated and Cooled from Side Walls", in preparation to be published in a journal.

GENERAL PAPERS and ARTICLES:

  1. Powering Up With an African Reactor, technical opinion article published in various newspapers in the US, November 2000.

  2. An Energy Policy for a Brighter Future, a full page technical opinion article published in the Daily Graphic, Ghana, March 24, 2001

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