Education

• M.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science and Materials Processing), University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
• Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Awards

• R&D 100 Award in Process Sciences, PulseForgeTM 3100 with Pulse Thermal Processing; NovaCentrix, Inc. (Schroder K., Jackson D., McCool S., Pope D., Kierzyk T., Lind D., Rawson I., Sommers R.) and ORNL (Blue C., Clemons, A., Dudney, N., Duty, C., Harper D., Ott R., Rivard, J., Sabau A.), 2009.
• The Frederick E. Terman Award for academic achievement, Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 3.96 GPA, 1994-1995.
• National Merit Scholarship, University of Craiova, Romania, 9.92/10 GPA, 1989-1992.
• Honorable Mentions at the Romanian National Mathematics Olympiad (two times during highschool).

ORNL Senior R&D Staff Member: Energy Transport; Radiation Transport in Semitransparent Media; Materials behavior under severe environments (Turbine, Boiler)

ORNL R&D Staff Member: Solidification and Deformation Phenomena in Materials Processing

Postgraduate Expertize: Microporosity during solidification casting, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Programming

Ph.D. (Ph.D. Academic Advisor Dr. Peter E. Raad): Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Lubrication Bioengineering

M.Sc.: Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics

Expertise:

• Solution algorithms, software development, and programming experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Solidification, and Radiation Transport by the use of FORTRAN 90 and C.
• ABAQUS, PROCAST, FLOW3D, Telluride, Truchas, RIPPLE, FLUENT, and LabView.
• Experiment design, data acquisition, and data processing techniques.
• Solid background in solid mechanics and stress analysis.

External University Collaborators

• Dr. Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
• Dr. Kozo Saito, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
• Dr. Narendra B. Dahotre, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) (2005-2006).
• Dr. Jay Frankel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/2001-10/2004).

Post-Doctoral Collaborators

• John D.K. Rivard (2004-2005), Christian Shaffer (2010-present), Hebi Yin (2010-present), Sergiy Kalnaus (2010-present).

PhD Candidate Students

• John D.K. Rivard (2001-2003), and Anoop Samant (2005-2006).

Intern Students

• Puja B. Kadolkar and Zhuoxi Wu.

Adrian Sabau