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From page 265...
... BERGLES WARREN MAX ROHSENOW, an outstanding engineering educator and heat transfer researcher, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , died on June 3, 2011, not long after celebrating his 90th birthday.
From page 266...
... . Warren Rohsenow's most important paper started out in report form in 1951: "A Method of Correlating Heat Transfer Data for Surface Boiling of Liquids." The proposed method was simple but effective: The boiling curve for forced convection subcooled (surface)
From page 267...
... A wide variety of studies of very complex phenomena was undertaken: boiling and condensing of liquid metals, forced convection film boiling, thermal contact resistance, condensation of refrigerants, improvement of cooling towers, enhancement of heat transfer, and heat transfer in underground electrical cables. He was an author on more than 100 journal papers as well as several hundred conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports.
From page 268...
... . In 1997 the ASME Gas Turbine Committee of the Heat Transfer
From page 269...
... After an extensive renovation, it was again renamed in 2010, the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory. In many respects, Warren Rohsenow's passing signals the end of an era.
From page 270...
... With the passage of time, many pertinent studies performed decades ago are now sent into oblivion, removed from the reference lists of recent papers and textbooks. It can be asserted, however, that Warren Rohsenow's contributions to heat transfer will endure.


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