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John Crepeau Professor

Positions

Professor, Mechanical Engineering , College of Engineering 2007 -
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering , College of Engineering 2000 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering , College of Engineering 1994 - 2000

Research Areas

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Temperature Dependence of Thermal Conductivity for Water Using the Transient Hot-Wire Method. Journal of Engineering Thermophysics. 31:78-97. 2022
- Progress of Student Competencies from Cornerstone to Capstone Design: A Longitudinal Study. International Journal of Engineering Education. 38:836-848. 2022
- Effect of Crosswinds on the Aerodynamics of Two Passenger Cars Crossing Each Other. International Journal of Automotive Technology. 20:997-1008. 2019
- Experimental and Scale Analysis of a Solid/Liquid Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage System. Heat Transfer Engineering. 40:1600-1618. 2019
- Entropy Generation for Bypass Transitional Boundary Layers. Journal of Fluids Engineering - Transactions of the ASME. 139. 2017
- Analytical solutions to the Stefan problem with internal heat generation. Applied Thermal Engineering. 103:443-451. 2016
- Design And Laboratory Evaluation Of Future Elongation And Diameter Measurements At The Advanced Test Reactor. Nuclear Technology. 191:92-105. 2015
- Effects of adverse and favorable pressure gradients on entropy generation in a transitional boundary layer region under the influence of freestream turbulence. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 77:475-488. 2014
- Entropy generation in bypass transitional boundary layer flows. Journal of Hydrodynamics. 26:669-680. 2014
- Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Melting with Internal Heat Generation within Cylindrical Enclosures. Applied Thermal Engineering. 67:587-596. 2014
- The Thermophysical Properties of Binary Mixtures of Molten Alkali Fluoride Salts, Part II: Correlations for the Transport Properties in Reduced Form. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 70:119-127. 2014
- The Thermophysical Properties of Binary Mixtures of Molten Alkali Fluoride Salts, Part I: Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties through Use of the Soft Sphere Equation of State. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 68:130-141. 2013
- Use of the Soft Sphere Equation of State to Predict the Thermodynamic Properties of the Molten Salt Mixtures LiF-BeF2, NaF-BeF2, Kf-BeF2. Progress in Nuclear Energy. 68:188-199. 2013
- Entropy generation in a transitional boundary layer region under the influence of freestream turbulence using transitional RANS models and DNS. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 41:10-16. 2013
- "Solid-Liquid Phase Change Driven by Internal Heat Generation". Comptes Rendue Mecanique. 340:471-476. 2012
- "The Eponymous Anonymous Josef Stefan". Comptes Rendue Mecanique. 340:468-470. 2012
- The effect of variable viscosity in double diffusion problem of MHD from a porous boundary with Internal Heat Generation. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics. 11:54-65. 2011
- On the Stefan problem with volumetric energy generation. Heat and Mass Transfer. 46:119-128. 2009
- Loschmidt, Stefan and Stigler’s Law of Eponymy. Physics in Perspective. 11:357-378. 2009
- Options Extending The Applicability Of High-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples. Nuclear Technology. 167:169-177. 2009
- Phase Change Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Copper Porous Foam. Journal of Heat Transfer. 130. 2008
- Approximate Solutions to the Stefan Problem with Internal Heat Generation. Heat and Mass Transfer. 44:787-794. 2008
- Extension wire for high temperature irradiation resistant thermocouples. Measurement Science and Technology. 19. 2008
- MHD free convection and mass transfer flow in a porous media with simultaneous rotating fluid. International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids. 4:69-82. 2008
- Thermal expansion coefficient of steels used in LWR vessels. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 376:211-215. 2008
- Thermal radiation effects on natural convection flow past a semi-infinite porous plate in a porous media with internal heat generation. International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 13:277-280. 2008
- Josef Stefan: His Life and Legacy in the Thermal Sciences. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 31:795-803. 2007
- Natural Convection of a Magnetohydrodynamic Flow Past a Semi-Infinite Vertical Porous Plate in a Porous Medium. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 1:15-25. 2007
- Natural Convection of a magnetohydrodynamic flow past a semi-infinite vertical porous plate in a porous medium with internal heat generation. International Journal of Heat Technology. 25:91-94. 2007
- Natural convection flow past vertical porous plate with internal heat generation and constant heat flux. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 1:297-301. 2007
- From Rags to Research: The Life of Josef Stefan. Bridges. 2006
- Dye-bubble interactions in an open channel flow. Heat and Mass Transfer. 42:104-111. 2005
- Dye Interactions with Rising Bubbles in a Crossflow. Journal of Visualization. 4:215. 2001
- Drying of mock spent nuclear fuel elements. Drying Technology. 16:545-560. 1998
- Similarity solutions of natural convection with internal heat generation. Journal of Heat Transfer. 119:183-185. 1997
- Comparison of spectral entropy with statistical entropy in selected physical systems. Journal of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics. 21:169-174. 1996
- Deterministic Analysis of a Free Shear Layer. AIAA Student Journal. 28:2-5. 1991
- Spectral Entropy Measurements of Coherent Structures in an Evolving Shear Layer. Journal of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics. 16:137-151. 1991
- On the Spectral Entropy Behavior of Self Organizing Processes. Journal of Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics. 15:115-126. 1990
- Unstable Vortices in the Near Region of an Internal Flow Cavity. AIAA Student Journal. 27:1667-1672. 1989
article
- Josef Stefan, Josef Loschmidt and Stigler’s Law 2008
book
- Jožef Stefan: His Scientific Legacy on the 175 Anniversary of His Birth. Bentham Science Publishers. 2013
chapter
- Center Manifold Theory and an Application to Fluid Mechanics. Dynamik-Evolution-Strukturen. Berlin. 101-107. 1996
- Spectral Entropy and Self Organization. Lectures in the Science of Complexity. 493-495. 1992
conference paper
- Fourier-Bessel Series Model for the Stefan Problem with Internal Heat Generation in Cylindrical Coordinates. 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, 2018. 2018
- Laminar And Transitional Boundary Layer Entropy Generation Over A Flat Plate Under Favorable And Adverse Pressure Gradients. Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, 2013. 2014
- Performance Enhancement of Solid/Liquid Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Systems. IMECE. 2014
- REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES MODELS COMPARED TO DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS IN AN ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT BOUNDARY LAYER OVER A FLAT PLATE. Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, 2013. 2014
- SCALE/ANALYTICAL ANALYSES OF FREEZING AND CONVECTIVE MELTING WITH INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION. ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2013. 2014
- Numerical Investigation of Melting with Internal Heat Generation in a Vertical Cylindrical Geometry 2012
- The Determination of Thermophysical Properties of Binary Mixtures of Molten Fluoride Salts Used in Nuclear Reactors. 18th Symposium of Thermophysical Properties. 2012
- Update on Current Progress on Ultrasonic Thermometry Development. ANS 8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human Machine Interface. 2012
- Exergy analysis of two proposed Mars Hopper propulsion configurations. Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space. 2011
- Scale Analysis of Convective Melting with Internal Heat Generation. ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference. 2011
- The Mars Hopper: a radioisotope powered, impulse-driven, long-range, long-lived mobile platform for the exploration of Mars. Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space. 2011
- A Brief History of the T4 Radiation Law. ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. 2009
- Initial Results from Investigations to Enhance the Performance of High Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples. 15th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. 854-863. 2008
- Josef Stefan and His Contributions to Heat Transfer. ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. 2008
- Comparison of Computational and Quasi-Static Solutions of Phase Change with Heat Generation. ASME Heat Transfer Conference. 2007
- Effects of Internal Heat Generation on Solidification. ASME Heat Transfer Conference. 2005
- Integral Solutions of Phase Change with Internal Heat Generation. 12th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. 2004
- Effect of a Passivation Reaction on a Boundary Layer Flow. 9th International Symposium on Flow Visualization. 2000
- Flow Visualization of a Chemically Reacting Boundary Layer. International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition. 2000
- Drying Techniques for Wet-Stored and Particulate Spent Nuclear Fuel. 11th International Drying Symposium (IDS ’98). 1998
- The Role of Numerical Modeling and Experiments in the Design of a Freezing Point Measurement System. National Heat Transfer Conference. 1997
- Drying Studies of Simulated DOE Aluminum Plate Fuels. DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel and Fissile Material Management Meeting. 1996
- Spectral Entropy as a Measure of Self Organization in Transition Flows. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Self Organization, Emerging Properties and Learning. 287-294. 1991
- Unstable Bursts In the Near Region of an Internal Free Shear Layer. First National Fluid Dynamics Congress. 853-857. 1988
conference poster
- Fundamental Equations for Fluid Flow in a Geocentrifuge. American Geophysical Union. 2003
report
review

presentations

invited talk
- The Stefan Problem with Internal Heat Generation, Lecturer 2010
- A Brief History of the T4 Law, Speaker, ASME Heat Transfer Conference 2009
- The Stefan Problem with Internal Heat Generation, Lecturer 2009
- Josef Stefan and His Contributions to Heat Transfer, Speaker, ASME Heat Transfer Conference 2008
- Josef Stefan and Josef Loschmidt: Colleagues in Vienna, Contrasts of Stigler’s Law, Lecturer 2008
- Comparison of Computational and Quasi-Static Solutions of Phase Change with Heat Generation, Speaker, 2007 ASME Heat Transfer Conference 2007
- Enhancements to High Temperature In-Pile Thermocouple Performance, Panelist, Fuels NERI Panel, Winter Meeting, American Nuclear Society 2007
- Evaluation of Quasi-Static and Computational Solutions of Phase Change with Internal Heat Generation, Speaker, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2007
- Progress Report on Enhancements to High Temperature In-Pile Thermocouple Performance, Speaker, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Annual Meeting 2007
- Effects of Internal Heat Generation on Solidification, Speaker, ASME Heat Transfer Conference 2005
- Solidification and the Effects of Internal Heat Generation, Speaker, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2005
- Integral Solutions of Phase Change with Internal Heat Generation, Speaker, International Conference on Nuclear Engineering 2004
- Computational Modeling of the Fluid Flow in a Representative Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister, Speaker, American Nuclear Society 2002 Annual Meeting 2002
- Effect of a Passivation Reaction on a Boundary Layer Flow, Speaker, 9th International Symposium on Flow Visualization 2000
- Flow Visualization of a Chemically Reacting Boundary Layer, Speaker, International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition 2000
- Flow Visualization in the Presence of a Surface Reaction,”, Speaker, merican Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 1999
- Drying Techniques for Wet-Stored and Particulate Spent Nuclear Fuel, Speaker, International Drying Symposium 1998
- Flow Patterns in a Generic Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister, Speaker, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 1998
- The Role of Numerical Modeling and Experiments in the Design of a Freezing Point Measurement System, Speaker, National Heat Transfer Conference 1997
- Deterministic Analysis of a Blasius Boundary Layer, Speaker, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 1991
- Dynamical Systems Study of Mixing and Boundary Layers, Speaker, Institute of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering 1991
- Spectral Entropy Behavior in Self Organizing Processes, Lecturer 1991
- Deterministic Analysis of a Free Shear Layer, Speaker, 17th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 1990
- Spectral Entropy and Self Organization, Speaker, 1990 Summer School on Complex Systems 1990
- Unstable Bursts In the Near Region of an Internal Free Shear Layer, Speaker, First National Fluid Dynamics Congress 1988

Research

principal investigator on

LVDT-Based Methods for Thermal Measurement awarded by Idaho National Laboratory 2013 - 2015
Graduate Fellowship in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Idaho awarded by Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2010 - 2014
Fundamental Fluid Physics Studies for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability awarded by United States Department of Energy 2010 - 2013
Thermal and Propulsion Systems Analysis of the Mars Hopper awarded by Idaho Space Grant Consortium 2010 - 2012
Power Cycle Senior Design Project for the Mars Hopper, Part 2 awarded by Idaho National Laboratory 2011
DOE Scholarships at the University of Idaho awarded by NEUP Scholarships and Fellowships Program 2009 - 2011
Power Cycle Senior Design Project for the Mars Hopper, Part 1 awarded by Idaho National Laboratory 2010
High Temperature In-Pile Thermocouples awarded by Idaho National Laboratory 2006 - 2008
Enhancements to High Temperature In-Pile Thermocouple Performance awarded by United States Department of Energy 2006 - 2008
Gas Test Loop Booster Fuel Hydraulic Tests awarded by Idaho National Laboratory 2005 - 2006
Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Oval Tubes and Vortex Generators 2000 - 2002
Chaos Modeling of Flow in Porous Media 2000 - 2001
Flow Visualization of Forced and Natural Convection in Internal Cavities awarded by United States Department of Energy 1997 - 2000
Development of the Virtual Laboratory Experience awarded by Idaho State Board of Education 1997 - 1999
Drying Simulation Experiments awarded by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO) 1998
Stabilization of Particulate Spent Nuclear Fuels Using Sodium Silicate awarded by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO) 1998
Pilot-Scale Oxide Reduction Impeller Design awarded by Argonne National Laboratory 1997 - 1998
Drying Characteristics of Mock Spent Nuclear Fuels awarded by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO) 1995 - 1997
Freezing Point Measurement System for Chemical Weapons awarded by Associated Western Universities, Inc. 1996
Remote Gas Analyzer Experiments awarded by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO) 1995 - 1996
A Thermodynamic Approach to Fluid Transition awarded by National Science Foundation 1992 - 1993

Teaching

is major professor for

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah 1991
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah 1988
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1983

Contact

full name

John Crepeau