Krishna Pillai - Associate Professor


Contact Information

Office Address:
EMS 945
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-6535
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: krishna@uwm.edu
WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/~krishna/

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 784
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201

 Krishna Pillai
Education

Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1997
M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1991
B.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1988

Research Interests

Flow and Transport in Porous Media (Modeling liquid motion through fiber bed during processing of polymer composites, Wicking of liquids in rigid as well as swelling porous substrates, Evaporation of Multicomponent Liquids); Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer; Rheology of polymers.

Selected Publications
  1. "A Study on Slow Evaporation of Liquids in a Dual-Porosity Porous Medium using Square Network Model", K M. Pillai , M. Prat, M. Marcoux, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, in press.
  2. "Finite Element Implemetation of Stress-Jump and Stress-Continuity Conditions at Porous-Medim, Clear-Fluid Interace", Hua Tan and Krishna M. Pillai, Computers and Fluids, in press.
  3. "A Deviation from Darcy's law due to Unsaturated Flow in Dual-Scale Porous Media", Murthy S. Munagavalasa and Krishna M. Pillai, Journal of Porous Media, in press.
  4. "A method to estimate the accuracy of radial flow based permeability measuring devices," Hua Tan and Krishna M. Pillai, Journal of Composite Materials, in press.
  5. "Effect of Fiber-Mat Anisotropy on 1D Mold Filling in LCM: A Numerical investigation," Hua Tan and Krishna M. Pillai, Polymer Composites, 29(8), 869-882, 2008.
  6. "Darcy's Law based Models for Liquid Absorption in Polymer Wick," R. Masoodi, Krishna M. Pillai, PP. Varanasi, AIChE Journal, Vol 53, No. 11, 2769-2782, 2007.

Recent (selected) Conference Presentations:

  1. "Simulating unsaturated flow in dual length-scale porous media," H. Tan and K.M. Pillai, an invited presentation, 1st InterPore (International Society for Porous Media) Conference, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 11-14, 2009.
  2. “Hybrid Micro-Nano Composites,” K.M. Pillai, a presentation at Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Minitec on Next Generation Polymeric Materials, Milwaukee, Oct 21, 2008.
  3. "Evaluation of Boundary conditions at the clear-fluid and porous-medium interface using BEM," Hua Tan, X. Chen, K. M. Pillai and T. D. Papathanasiou, 9th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials (FPCM9), Montreal, 8-10 July, 2008.
  4. "Role of Hydraulic and Capillary Radii in Improving the Effectiveness of Capillary Model in Wicking", R Masoodi, K M Pillai and P Varanasi, ASME Summer Conference, Jacksonville FL, USA, August 10-14, 2008. "A New Method to Estimate Permeability of Isotropic Fiber Mats through Radial Flow," Hua Tan and Krishna M. Pillai, SAMPE 2007, June 3-7, Baltimore.