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
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
Processing of polymer composites and plastics; Numerical simulation of injection, compression/injection and transfer molding processes; Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer (FEM, FDM, BEM); Transport in porous media; Rheology of polymers.
Selected Publications
- “A Numerical Study of Non-Isothermal Reactive Flow in a Dual-Scale Porous Medium under Partial Saturation”, K.M. Pillai and R.S. Jadhav, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 46: 1-28, 2004
- “Unsaturated flow in liquid composite molding processes: a review and some thoughts”, K.M. Pillai, Journal of Composite Materials, vol. 38, n 23 Dec 2004, p2097-2118.
- “Governing equations for unsaturated flow through woven fiber mats, Part 2: Nonisothermal reactive flows”, K.M. Pillai and M.S. Munagavalsa, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, v 35, 2004, p403-415.
- “Experimental Investigation of the effect of fiber-mat architecture on the unsaturated flow in liquid composite molding”, B.Z. Babu and K. M. Pillai, Journal of Composite Materials, v 38, n 1, 2003, p 57-79.
- "Governing Equations for Unsaturated Flow through Woven Fiber Mats: Part 1 Isothermal Flows", K. M. Pillai, Composites: Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, v 33, 2002, p 1007-1019.