Professor
Research
Reactor thermalhydraulics, liquid metal flow and heat transfer, cavitation and fluid transients, accelerator target design, and microchannel flow.
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, RPI, Troy NY, May 1987
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, December 1980
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, June 1977
Awards and Recognitions
ASME Fellow
College of Engineering Fellow, 2009
ASME Fellow review board, past, and ASME V&V 30 (Multiphysics Reactor Safety Codes) Code Committee, Current
Publications
Huhu Wang, Saya Lee, Yassin A. Hassan, Arthur E. Ruggles. “Laser-Doppler measurements of the turbulent mixing of two rectangular water jets impinging on a stationary pool.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 92, 206-227 Online publication date: 1-Jan-2016. http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.8187
Clark, E., Griffard, C., Ramirez, E., and Ruggles, A. E., “Experiment Attributes to establish tube with twisted tape insert performance cooling plasma facing components.” Fusion Engineering and Design, 2015.
Cody Wiggins, Roque Santos, Arthur Ruggles, “A novel clustering approach to positron emission particle tracking,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 811, 18-24, 2016.
Seth Langford, Cody Wiggins, Daniel Tenpenny, Arthur Ruggles, “Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) for fluid flow measurements,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol 302, Part B, pp. 81-89, 2016.