John H. Lienhard V Explained

John H. Lienhard V
Birth Name:John Henry Lienhard V
Birth Place:Pullman, Washington, U.S.
Fields:Desalination, heat transfer, thermodynamics
Workplaces:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known For:Desalination, liquid-jet impingement, high-heat-flux engineering, textbooks
Alma Mater:
Awards:
  • AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award (2022)
  • ASME Edward F. Obert Award (2019)
  • ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2015)
  • ASME Technical Communities Globalization Medal (2012)
Thesis Title:The decay of turbulence in thermally stratified flow
Thesis Year:1988
Doctoral Advisor:Charles W. Van Atta

John Henry Lienhard V (born 1961) is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on desalination, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. He has also written several engineering textbooks.

Childhood and education

Lienhard was born in 1961 in Pullman, Washington, where his father, John H. Lienhard IV, was a professor at Washington State University. His mother, Carol Ann Bratton, a violinist, was a member of the Washington State University String Quartet. The family moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1967 when his father took a position at the University of Kentucky. Lienhard attended primary school and high school in Lexington.[1]

Lienhard enrolled at the University of Kentucky when he was 16. He completed his bachelor's degree in engineering, summa cum laude, at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1982, and he took his master's degree in heat and mass transfer at UCLA in 1984 for research on Rayleigh–Bénard instability.[2] He then transferred to the University of California, San Diego, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on wind tunnel measurements of strongly stratified turbulent flow, finishing in 1988.[3] Lienhard's doctoral experiments encompassed Brunt–Väisälä frequencies up to 2.4 s−1 and required the development of hot-wire anemometry usable in the presence of large temperature fluctuations.

Career

Lienhard joined the mechanical engineering faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, immediately after graduating from UCSD. He has spent his entire professional career at MIT.

Lienhard's initial research at MIT focused on cooling by liquid jet impingement. This work included fundamental convection problems, droplet splattering, free-surface turbulence interactions, and pattern-formation in the hydraulic jump.[4] [5] [6] The thin boundary layer at a jet's stagnation point also provided an attractive avenue to high-heat-flux engineering. In 1993, Lienhard's group reported the higheststeady-state fluxes to that date removed from a macroscopic area, achieved using a high-speed water jet (≈40 kW/cm2).[7] They later extended this approach to arrays of jets, allowing larger areas to be cooled at high flux. In 1998, they used an array of water jets at 46 m/s to remove 1.7 kW/cm2 by convection alone over areas of several cm2.[8]

In the 2000s, Lienhard refocused his research on the problem of clean water supply and scarcity, particularly around desalination technologies. He approached this area through his background in thermal engineering and transport phenomena, making energy efficiency a central aim.[9] [10] His group's desalination research has spanned a broad range of topics including humidification-dehumidification,[11] forward and reverse osmosis,[12] membrane distillation,[13] produced water,[14] electrodialysis, nanofiltration, solar desalination,[15] and thermophysical properties.[16] [17] The seawater thermophysical property database developed by his group has been widely used by other researchers.

Lienhard has written hundreds of peer-reviewed research publications and has been issued more than 35 US patents. The patents have facilitated several start-up companies formed by his former students.

Lienhard has been responsible for launching a number of major research programs at MIT. He was the founding director of the Center for Clean Water and CleanEnergy (2008–2017), a multi-million dollar research collaboration with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) involving dozens of faculty members at KFUPM and MIT.[18] He was the founding director of the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship program for Saudi Arabian Women,[19] which has brought dozens of PhD-level women to MIT for research collaborations. He is also the founding director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT.[20] J-WAFS funds diverse research on water and food, across all of MIT's schools, to address the needs of a rapidly growing population on a changing planet.

Lienhard is a committed educator, recognized with awards for teaching and mentoring.[21] He has written textbooks on measurement and instrumentation, on heat transfer, and on thermal modeling. He has long collaborated with his father on A Heat Transfer Textbook. In 2001, they made the decision to distribute the work primarily as an ebook, one of the first textbooks to adopt this format.[22] The ebook, which is free of charge, has since been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times across the world.

Selected awards and honors

Lienhard has received a number of honors and awards, including the following:

In addition, Lienhard's research group has received many best paper, poster, and presentation awards for their work in desalination and heat transfer.[31]

Textbooks

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Author Interview: John Lienhard. Rochelle. Kronzek. 21 September 2011. www.doverpublications.com. Dover Publications. 18 January 2020.
  2. Thermal instability and heat transfer in a singly partitioned horiziontal fluid layer. MSc thesis. John H., 5th. Lienhard. University of California, Los Angeles. March 1984. 12611345.
  3. The decay of turbulence in thermally stratified flow. PhD dissertation. January 1988. John H., V. Lienhard. University of California, San Diego. 17853349.
  4. Liu . Xin . Lienhard . John H., V. Lombara. James S.. August 1991. Convective Heat Transfer by Impingement of Circular Liquid Jets . Journal of Heat Transfer . 113. 3 . 571–582. 10.1115/1.2910604. 1991ATJHT.113..571L .
  5. Liu . Xin . Lienhard . John H., V . July 1993 . The hydraulic jump in circular jet impingement and in other thin liquid films. Experiments in Fluids . 15. 2. 108–116. 10.1007/BF00190950. 1993ExFl...15..108L . 23579826 .
  6. Bhunia . Sourav K. . Lienhard . John H., V . 1 December 1994 . Surface Disturbance Evolution and the Splattering of Turbulent Liquid Jets . Journal of Fluids Engineering . 116 . 4 . 721–727 . 10.1115/1.2911841.
  7. Liu . Xin . Lienhard . John H., V. May 1993. Extremely High Heat Fluxes Beneath Impinging Liquid Jets . Journal of Heat Transfer . 115. 2 . 472–476. 10.1115/1.2910703. 1993ATJHT.115..472L .
  8. Oh . Chang H. . Lienhard. John H., V . Younis . Hesham F. . Dahbura . Rudy S. . Michels . Dirk . April 1998 . Liquid Jet-Array Cooling Modules for High Heat Fluxes . AIChE Journal . 44 . 4 . 769–779 . 10.1002/aic.690440402. 1998AIChE..44..769O .
  9. Mistry . Karan H. . McGovern . Ronan K.. Thiel. Gregory P.. Summers. Edward K.. Zubair. Syed M.. Lienhard. John H., V. September 2011. Entropy generation analysis of desalination technologies . Entropy . 13. 10 . 1829–1864 . 10.3390/e13101829. 2011Entrp..13.1829M . free. 1721.1/69217. free.
  10. Plappally . Anand K. . Lienhard . John H., V . September 2012 . Energy Requirements for Water Production, Treatment, End Use, Reclamation, and Discharge . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews . 16 . 7 . 4818–4848 . 10.1016/j.rser.2012.05.022.
  11. Narayan. Prakash Govindan . Sharqawy . Mostafa H.. Summers. Edward K. . Lienhard. John H., V. Zubair. Syed M.. Antar. Mohamed A.. May 2010 . The potential of solar-driven humidification-dehumidification desalination for small-scale decentralized water production . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews . 14 . 4. 1187–1201 . 10.1016/j.rser.2009.11.014. 2010RSERv..14.1187N . 1721.1/52624 . 15976074 . free.
  12. McGovern . Ronan K.. Lienhard. John H., V. 1 November 2014 . On the potential of forward osmosis to energetically outperform reverse osmosis desalination . Journal of Membrane Science. 469. 245–250 . 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.05.061 . 1721.1/102494. free.
  13. Warsinger . David E. M.. Swaminathan. Jaichander. Guillem. Elena. Arafat. Hassan A.. Lienhard. John H., V . 15 January 2015. Scaling and Fouling In Membrane Distillation for Desalination Applications: A Review . Desalination. 356 . 294–313. 10.1016/j.desal.2014.06.031 . 2015Desal.356..294W. 1721.1/102497. free.
  14. Thiel. Gregory P.. Tow . Emily W.. Banchik. Leonardo D.. Chung. Hyung Won . Lienhard. John H., V. 15 June 2015 . Energy consumption in desalinating produced water from shale oil and gas extraction. Desalination . 366 . 94–112. 10.1016/j.desal.2014.12.038. 2015Desal.366...94T . 1721.1/101978. free.
  15. Book: 2012. Chapter 9: Solar Desalination. 15. 10.1615/AnnualRevHeatTransfer.2012004659. Begell House. New York. Annual Review of Heat Transfer. Lienhard. John H., V. Bilton. Amy. Antar. Mohamed A.. Zaragoza. Guillermo. Blanco. Julian. 277–347. 9781567003116. 243505510 .
  16. Sharqawy . Mostafa H. . Lienhard. John H., V. Zubair. Syed M.. April 2010 . The thermophysical properties of seawater: A review of existing correlations and data . Desalination and Water Treatment . 16 . 1–3 . 354–380 . 10.5004/dwt.2010.1079. 2010DWatT..16..354S . 1721.1/69157 . 93362418 . free .
  17. Ahdab. Yvana D. . Thiel . Gregory P. . Böhlke . J. K.. Stanton. Jennifer. Lienhard. John H., V . 15 September 2018 . Minimum energy requirements for desalination of brackish groundwater in the United States with comparison to international datasets . Water Research . 141 . 387–404. 10.1016/j.watres.2018.04.015 . 29857319 . 2018WatRe.141..387A . 1721.1/116025 . 44118930 . free .
  18. News: . MIT, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in collaboration. 25 November 2008. news.mit.edu. 18 January 2020. Two schools launch program on clean water, clean energy.
  19. Web site: . The Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women. ibk.mit.edu. 18 January 2020.
  20. News: . MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security. 6 May 2014. news.mit.edu. 18 January 2020.
  21. News: . In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students. 22 April 2019. 20 January 2020. news.mit.edu.
  22. Web site: Professor Lienhard on his Open Access Textbook. Ellen. Finnie. 25 February 2008. libraries.mit.edu. 18 January 2020.
  23. Web site: Donald Q. Kern Award. www.aiche.org. . 28 March 2012 . 25 October 2022.
  24. Web site: American Society of Thermal and Fluid Engineers Fellowship. www.astfe.org. . 12 May 2021.
  25. Web site: Edward F. Obert Award. www.asme.org. . 18 January 2020.
  26. Web site: AAAS Current Fellows List. www.aaas.org. . 18 January 2020.
  27. Web site: Desalination for water supply: Is energy consumption manageable?. 18 January 2020. www.youtube.com. 11 April 2016. Lienhard. John H., V.
  28. Web site: Heat Transfer Memorial Award. www.asme.org. . 18 January 2020.
  29. . Celebrating Engineering 2012 ASME Honors. Mechanical Engineering . New York . American Society of Mechanical Engineers. November 2012. 134. 11. 54–55.
  30. Web site: List of All ASME Fellows. www.asme.org. . 18 January 2020.
  31. Web site: MIT MechE People: John Lienhard. 18 January 2020. meche.mit.edu.
  32. Book: Beckwith . Thomas G. . Marangoni . Roy D.. Lienhard . John H., V. 1993 . Mechanical Measurements. 9780201569476. Addison-Wesley. 26362192 . 5th. Reading, MA.
  33. Book: Lienhard . John H. IV . Lienhard . John H., V. 2001 . A Heat Transfer Textbook. 0971383502. Phlogiston Press. 48010715 . 3rd. Cambridge, MA.
  34. Book: Beckwith . Thomas G. . Marangoni . Roy D.. Lienhard . John H., V. 2007 . Mechanical Measurements. 9780201847659. Prentice-Hall. 6th. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
  35. Book: Lienhard . John H. IV . Lienhard . John H., V. 2011 . A Heat Transfer Textbook. 9780486479316. Dover Publications. 819288265 . 4th. Mineola, NY.
  36. Book: Glicksman . Leon R. . Lienhard . John H., V. 2016 . Modeling and approximation in heat transfer. 10.1017/CBO9780511997907. 9781107012172. 971422137. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK.
  37. Book: Lienhard . John H. IV . Lienhard . John H., V. 2019 . A Heat Transfer Textbook. 9780486837352. Dover Publications. 5th. Mineola, NY.

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