Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Sealing Technology Expert Witness

Expertise

• Dynamic fluid seals research and development.
• Fluid seals performance projection reports, seal failure analysis.
• Fluid seal simulation research, experiments, and modeling.

Expert Witness Experience

• Patent infringement, validity, ownership, and liability.
• Provide reports, testimony and disposition for patent infringement cases in Utah, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Canada, and in numerous venues, District Court, Federal Court (Canada).

Experience

Undisclosed University, Distinguished Professor

• Instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, undergraduate courses in thermodynamics.
• Proposes, obtains and manages research projects from agencies and industrial firms.
• Supervises graduate students.
• Performs research on fluid sealing technology.
• Current and recent research projects on hydraulic rod seals, and on mechanical seals for nuclear applications, seals for oilfield applications, automotive applications, pump and compressor seals, gearbox seals, aerospace seals.
• Generates patents.
• Publishes technical papers in refereed journals and books.
• Presents papers at technical conferences.
• Has taught short courses on fluid sealing technology.

Borg-Warner Research Center, Des Plaines, IL, 1972 - 1987

Manager, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Turbomachinery Department

• Directed new product development and product improvement projects for corporate divisions, and applied research projects for divisions and corporate headquarters.
• Provided consulting for technical evaluation to divisional and corporate officers.
• Directed research and development planning, implementation, reporting and liason.
• Performed research on fluid sealing technology, fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Associate Professor,1968 - 1972

Assistant Professor, 1968 - 1972

• Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, combustion.
• Proposed, obtained and managed research projects from government agencies.
• Supervised graduate students.
• Performed research on acoustics, optics and combustion.
• Research projects on study of jet noise using optical holography, sonic booms and their scaling laws, shock-initiated supersonic combustion for advanced stable air-breathing and hybrid engines.
• Published technical papers in refereed journals.
• Presented papers at technical conferences.

University of California, Berkeley, CA, Assistant Professor, 1966 - 1968

• Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics.
• Performed research on acoustics.
• Published technical papers in refereed journals.
• Presented papers at technical conferences.

Honors & Publications

Licenses

• Professional Engineer-P.E., Georgia PP

Credentials

• Associate Editor, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Tribology - ASME
• Associate Editor, Tribology Transactions - STLE
• Member of Editorial Board, Sealing Technology, Elsevier
• Member of the Editorial Board, Mechanika (Lithuania)
• Member of the Editorial Board, J. of Engineering Tribology
• Member of the Editorial Board, Advances in Tribology

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME
• Fellow, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers - STLE
• Tau Beta Pi (honorary engineering fraternity)
• Sigma Xi (honorary scientific research fraternity)

Awards

• Henry R. Worthington Medal, ASME
• Sealing Technology Paper Award, STLE
• Edmond E. Bisson Award, STLE
• Frank P. Bussick Award, STLE (4 years)
• Machine Design Award, ASME
• Mayo D. Hersey Award, ASME

Publications and Patents

• Author and Co-Author of 4 books, 83 papers-journals and 102 presentations.
• 6 Patents.

Education

• Sc.D. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA