Francis Kulacki

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering
Room 231
111 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Biographical Info

Research & Teaching

Research Interests

Natural convection heat transfer: Buoyancy driven flow with internal energy generation
Heat transfer in porous media: Properties and transport in saturated media
Boiling in disperse suspensions: Pool boiling and flow boiling
Energy systems analysis: Large-scale energy budge projections
Frost/defrost mechanisms and transport
Embedded thermal management of electronic devices and systems

Publications & Awards

ASME Life Fellow
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science.
ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
ASME E. F. Church Award
Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aeronautical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
ASME Heat Transfer Division, 75th Anniversary Medal
ASME Dedicated Service Award
George W. Taylor Distinguished Service Award, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Roll of Honor of Polish Science
Who’s Who in American Education, 1992

Janssen D, Mohs, W, Kulacki, FA, 2016, Frost Layer Growth Based on High Resolution Image Analysis. ASME J Therm Sci Engrg Appl 8(2), 011018-021018-12.
Janssen D, Kulacki FA, 2017, Flow Boiling of Dilute Emulsions. Int J Heat Mass Trans 115:1000-1007.
Cheng S, Fu M, Wang M, Kulacki, FA, 2018, The influence of the tube wall on fluid flow, permeability and streaming potential in a transducer for liquid curricular angular accelerometers, Sensors Actuators-A Physical 276:175-185.
Kulacki FA (Ed.), 2018, Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering, Springer Nature, ISBN 978-3-319-28573-3
Liu Y, Kulacki FA, 2018, The Effect of Surface Wettability on the Defrost Process, Springer Briefs in Engineering and Applied Science, Springer, New York.