Simon Ostrach

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Simon Ostrach is affiliated with the following schools: Brown University, Florida State University, California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University

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#1623

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#425

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Applied Physics

#755

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#777

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#120

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Simon Ostrach's Degrees

PhD Aeronautical Engineering California Institute of Technology
Masters Aeronautical Engineering California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Simon Ostrach was an American academic and a pioneer in the fields of buoyancy-driven flows and microgravity science. Early life and education Ostrach was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Engineering from Rhode Island State College, followed by an additional Master of Science and a PhD from Brown University, both in Applied Mathematics.

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Simon Ostrach's Published Works

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Natural convection in enclosures (1988) (1232)
An analysis of laminar free-convection flow and heat transfer about a flat plate parallel to the direction of the generating body force (1953) (586)
Low-Gravity Fluid Flows (1982) (386)
Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in a simulated floating-zone configuration (1984) (185)
Fluid Mechanics in Crystal Growth—The 1982 Freeman Scholar Lecture (1983) (180)
Convective effects in crystals grown from melt (1981) (169)
Experimental study of natural convection in shallow enclosures with horizontal temperature and concentration gradients (1985) (153)
Natural convection with combined driving forces (1980) (140)
Combined natural- and forced-convection laminar flow and heat transfer of fluids with and without heat sources in channels with linearly varying wall temperatures (1954) (136)
A long wave approximation to peristaltic motion. (1970) (132)
Thermal convection in an enclosure due to vibrations aboard spacecraft (1980) (130)
Laminar Natural-convection Flow and Heat Transfer of Fluids with and Without Heat Sources in Channels with Constant Wall Temperatures (1952) (122)
NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN CAVITIES AND CELLS (1982) (107)
Heat Transfer Augmentation in Laminar Fully Developed Channel Flow by Means of Heating From Below (1975) (91)
The solution of a two-dimensional freezing problem including convection effects in the liquid region (1974) (81)
An experimental study of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in cylindrical containers (1992) (76)
Microgravity experiments and analysis of oscillatory thermocapillary flows in cylindrical containers (2000) (70)
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN MATERIALS PROCESSING (1983) (70)
Modeling bubble and drop formation in flowing liquids in microgravity (1994) (68)
Oscillatory thermocapillary flow in cylindrical columns of high Prandtl number fluids (2001) (64)
Transient thermocapillary flow in thin liquid layers (1980) (61)
Convective Heat Transfer Augmentation in Thermal Entrance Regions by means of Thermal Instability (1979) (59)
Free-convection similarity flows about two dimensional and axisymmetric bodies with closed lower ends (1961) (57)
Analysis of velocity data taken in Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment in microgravity (1994) (57)
Theoretical analysis of thermocapillary flow in cylindrical columns of high prandtl number fluids (1998) (53)
Oscillatory thermocapillary flows (1993) (49)
A thermocapillary convection experiment in microgravity (1995) (47)
Design of a Thermocapillary Flow Experiment in Reduced Gravity (1986) (39)
Surface-tension induced convection at reduced gravity (1977) (39)
Effects of Heating Mode on Steady Axisymmetric Thermocapillary Flows in Microgravity (1996) (36)
Oscillatory thermocapillary flows in open cylindrical containers induced by CO2 laser heating (1999) (35)
Motion induced by capillarity (1980) (34)
On the principle of exchange of stabilities for the magnetohydrodynamic thermal stability problem in completely confined fluids (1966) (34)
Convection in continuous-flow electrophoresis (1977) (33)
Effect of Stabilizing Thermal Gradients on Natural Convection in Rectangular Enclosures (1979) (33)
Unsteady Thermosolutal Transport Phenomena Due to Opposed Buoyancy Forces in Shallow Enclosures (1991) (32)
Pulsatile Blood Flow in a Channel of Small Exponential Divergence—I. The Linear Approximation for Low Mean Reynolds Number (1975) (32)
Experimental free coating flows at high capillary and Reynolds number (1999) (32)
An experimental investigation of natural convection in a horizontal cylinder (1970) (31)
The Thermal Instability of Completely Confined Fluids Inside Some Particular Configurations (1963) (28)
Unstable convection in vertical channels with heating from below, including effects of heat sources and frictional heating (1955) (26)
Convection due to surface-tension gradients (1979) (26)
Natural convection inside a flat rotating container (1958) (25)
An experimental study of free surface deformation in oscillatory thermocapillary flow (1995) (25)
Natural Convection of a Liquid Metal in Vertical Circular Cylinders Heated Locally From the Side (1998) (24)
Princeton series on high speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion. Volume 4: Theory of laminar flows. Section D: Laminar flows with body forces (1959) (22)
Experiments on natural convection heat transfer in low aspect ratio enclosures (1981) (22)
Blood flow in branching vessels. (1976) (22)
Compressible laminar flow and heat transfer about a rotating isothermal disk (1958) (22)
Film instabilities in two‐phase flows (1965) (20)
Compressible laminar boundary layer and heat transfer for unsteady motions of a flat plate (1955) (18)
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF NATURAL CONVECTION IN A HORIZONTAL CYLINDER. (1974) (16)
Lower Bounds to the Critical Rayleigh Number in Completely Confined Regions (1967) (13)
Scaling of low-Prandtl-number thermocapillary flows (1992) (13)
Journal-Bearing Velocity Profiles for Small-Eccentricity and Moderate Modified Reynolds Numbers (1967) (13)
Industrial Processes Influenced by Gravity (1988) (12)
Fluid motion in the Czochralski method of crystal growth (1984) (12)
Effect of Destabilizing Heating on Görtler Vortices (1985) (12)
NATURAL CONVECTION INSIDE A HORIZONTAL CYLINDER (1981) (11)
Average Properties of Compressible Laminar Boundary Layer on Flat Plate With Unsteady Flight Velocity (1956) (11)
Findings of the Peer Review Panel on the Draft Reactor Risk Reference Document, NUREG-1150 (1988) (11)
On pairs of solutions of a class of internal viscous flow problems with body forces (1958) (11)
Effects of g Jitter on Free-Surface Motion in a Cavity (1995) (11)
Convection phenomena at reduced gravity of importance for materials processing (1976) (10)
Convection phenomena of importance for materials processing in space (1977) (10)
Mass transfer rate study in rotating shallow electrochemical cells (1998) (10)
Surface tension driven convection experiment (1993) (10)
Thermosolutal transport phenomena in large Lewis number electrochemical systems (1996) (9)
Nature of buoyancy-driven flows in a reduced-gravity environment (1992) (9)
NATURAL CONVECTION IN A HORIZONTAL CYLINDER AT LARGE PRANDTL NUMBERS. (1965) (8)
Numerical analysis of solutal convection in rotating shallow electrochemical cells (2000) (8)
Convection Phenomena in Fluids Heated from Below (1957) (8)
Internal viscous flows with body forces (1958) (8)
NATURAL CONVECTION INSIDE A HORIZONTAL CIRCULAR CYLINDER. (1969) (8)
On the flow, heat transfer, and stability of viscous fluids subject to body forces and heated from below in vertical channels (1955) (8)
Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment (STDCE) (1996) (8)
Growth-in-gel zeolite crystallization and transport phenomena (1993) (8)
Some temperature field results from the thermocapillary flow experiment aboard USML-2 spacelab (1998) (7)
Melting ablation about decelerating spherical bodies. (1965) (7)
Unsteady entrance flows in elastic tubes with application to the vascular system (1971) (6)
An experimental study of heat induced surface-tension driven flow (1981) (6)
Stability of Compressible Boundary Layers Induced by a Moving Wave (1962) (6)
Turbulent Co-Current Gas-Liquid Flow in a Tube With and Without Swirl (1979) (6)
A thick walled viscoelastic model for the mechanics of arteries. (1969) (6)
Preparative electrophoresis in zero gravity (1976) (6)
Low-Temperature Simulation of Hypersonic Melting Ablation and the Observed Wave Patterns (1971) (6)
NOTE ON THE AERODYNAMIC HEATING OF AN OSCILLATING SURFACE (1954) (5)
Melting ablation for two-dimensional and axisymmetric blunt bodies with a body force (1969) (5)
New Aspects of Natural-Convection Heat Transfer: Preliminary Study of Effect of Frictional Heating (1953) (5)
Zeolite Crystallization Process Modeling and Comparison with Microgravity Flight Results (1995) (5)
STABILITY OF LAMINAR VISCOUS FLOWS WITH A BODY FORCE (1963) (5)
Numerical solutions of floating-zone thermocapillary flows (1983) (5)
A critical evaluation of the status and trends in high speed fluid film lubrication (1968) (5)
Analysis of Confined Magnetohydrodynamic Vortex Flows (1968) (5)
Recent developments in oscillatory thermocapillary flows (1991) (5)
Gas Evolution in Rotating Electrochemical Cells under Reduced and Normal Gravity Conditions (1999) (4)
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MELTING HAVE BEHAVIOR (1970) (4)
Film Stability in a Vertical Rotating Tube with a Core‐Gas Flow (1971) (4)
Motion induced by surface-tension gradients (1982) (4)
The Effect of a Deceleration Force on a Melting Boundary Layer (1960) (4)
On the Stagnation of Natural-Convection Flows in Closed-End Tubes (1958) (4)
Transport phenomena near the interface of a czochralski-grown crystal (1988) (3)
Transient and turbulent mass transfer in rotating shallow electrochemical cells (1999) (3)
A STUDY OF CYCLONIC TWO-FLUID SEPARATION. (1965) (3)
Some results from the Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment aboard USML-1 Spacelab (1994) (3)
Gravity-dependent transport in industrial processes (1994) (3)
Convection phenomena at reduced gravity of importance in space processing of materials (1982) (3)
Transport phenomena in crystal growth (1988) (3)
Conditions for the onset of oscillatory thermocapillary flows in cylindrical containers with CO2 laser heating (1997) (3)
LIQUID GAS CYCLONE SEPARATION (1966) (3)
The discharge of a submerged buoyant jet into a stratified environment (1977) (3)
A Hydrodynamic Model of Dynamic Contact Angle Hysteresis. (1971) (3)
Oscillatory Thermocapillary Flow Experiment (OTFE) (1994) (2)
THE THERMAL STABILITY OF COMPLETELY CONFINED FLUIDS INCLUDING MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC EFFECTS. (1965) (2)
Modeling of the zeolite crystal growth process in microgravity and comparison with spaceflight results (1994) (2)
Prediction of natural convection flow pattern in low-aspect ratio enclosures (1982) (2)
Body rotation effects on melting ablation (1968) (2)
A study of seeded rotating arcs. (1967) (2)
G-jitter effects on the capillary surface motion in an open container under weightless condition (1992) (2)
Effect of Swirl on Conical Diffuser Performance (1971) (2)
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION (1995) (1)
Thermal oscillations in materials processing (1992) (1)
Some velocity field results from the thermocapillary flow experiment aboard USML-1 Spacelab (1995) (1)
Conditions for the onset of temperature oscillations in a simulated floating-zone configuration (1983) (1)
Surface tension driven convection (1985) (1)
An experimental study of surface-tension induced convection at reduced gravity (1982) (1)
Laminar flows in porous elastic channels (1967) (1)
An analysis of confined vortex flows. (1966) (1)
Note on the aerodynamic heating of an oscillating insulated surface (1957) (1)
Effect of G-Jitter on Liquid free Surfaces in Microgravity (1992) (1)
Transport phenomena of growth-in-gel zeolite crystallization in microgravity (1993) (1)
BUBBLE GENERATION IN A FLOWING LIQUID MEDIUM AND RESULTING TWO- PHASE FLOW IN MICROGRAVITY (2005) (1)
New Directions in Engineering Education (1994) (1)
Basic Engineering Principles of Ureteral Flow (1971) (0)
Effect of transverse body force on channel flow with small heat addition (1956) (0)
Fluid mechanics : proceedings of the Eighth Midwestern Mechanics Conference held at Case Institute of Technology, April 1-3, 1963 (1965) (0)
Role of Analysis in the Solution of Complex Physical Problems (2019) (0)
A NUMERICAL STUDY OF LOW-GRAVITY FLOATING ZONE CRYSTAL GROWTH (1992) (0)
Memoir on buoyancy-driven convection (1990) (0)
Microgravity Science Research Panel (2000) (0)
Heat transfer with receding boundaries and other complications (1963) (0)
Axisymmetric Vibration of an Elastic Spherical Shell Filled with a Viscous Incompressible Fluid. (1971) (0)
Surface tension-driven convections (1980) (0)
Surf ace-Tension Induced Convection at (1978) (0)
Liquid-Gas Separation and Containment, (1970) (0)
Characteristic Timescales for Adherent Mammalian Cells (2008) (0)
Convection due to surface-tension gradients. [in reduced gravity spacecraft environments] (1978) (0)
Surface-tension gradient induced flows at reduced gravity, introduction (1980) (0)
Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection in Circular Containers with CO2 Laser Heating (1995) (0)
Discussion: “Combined Forced and Free-Laminar Heat Transfer in Vertical Tubes With Uniform Internal Heat Generation” (Hallman, T. M., 1956, Trans. ASME, 78, pp. 1831–1840) (1956) (0)
Discussion: “An Investigation of Heat Transfer From an Inclined Flat Plate in Free Convection” (Rich, B. R., 1953, Trans. ASME, 75, pp. 489–498) (1953) (0)
Heat in history Memoir on Buoyancy-Driven Convection (1990) (0)
Effect of Body Forces on Motion and Heat Transfer of Confined Fluids (1980) (0)
Microgravity and the human exploration of space technology challenges (2008) (0)
The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with arbitrarily oriented body force (1966) (0)
Experiment 6: Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment-2 (STDCE-2) (1998) (0)
THE RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR STABILITY OF CONFINED VISCOUS FLUIDS WITH AN INTERFACE, (1967) (0)
Oscillatory Thermocapillary Flow Experiment-2 (OTFE-2). Experiment 31 (1998) (0)
Spacelab's Worth (1998) (0)
Contributions to Panel Discussions at the June 1973 ASME Symposium on Film Lubrication: Turbulence and Related Phenomena (1974) (0)
Study of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Appellate System (1979) (0)
Low-Gravity Transport Phenomena in Space-Based Systems (1998) (0)
Convection in fluids at reduced gravity (1981) (0)
Thermal convection induced byg-jitter in space environment (1982) (0)
The Effects of Suction or Injection Through a Discrete Point on the Flow of a Viscous Fluid in a Rigid Tube (1970) (0)
Melting Decelerating Bodies (1964) (0)

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