Wolfgang Leidenfrost

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Wolfgang Leidenfrost (born April 20, 1919 , † July 8, 2007 in West Lafayette (Indiana) ) was a German-American engineer and university professor.

Life

Leidenfrost studied engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he became a member of the Corps Teutonia-Hercynia . In 1952 he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD.

Leidenfrost was Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

His main research interests included new methods and instruments for measuring the thermal conductivity of metals, vapors and gases at various pressures and temperatures.

Fonts

  • Measurement of the thermal conductivity of liquid insulators and the change in heat transport in high electrical fields , 1952
  • Measuring 14 properties with the multi-purpose instrument and a temperature free method of measuring thermal transport properties , AFOSR Final Scientific Report, 1969
  • Determination of heat transfer through fluids , 1970 (patent US3672205A)
  • High-precision measurements of thermal conductivity of fluids by an absolute technique. New measurements on toluene , 1979
  • Evaporative Cooling and Heat Transfer Augmentation Related to Reduced Condenser Temperatures , 1982 (together with Branislav Korenic)
  • Melting of ice around a horizontal isothermal cylindrical heat source , 1983 (together with Jorg Herrmann and Raymond Viskanta)
  • Free convective draft induced by thermal and concentration gradients inside an isothermal, vertical cylinder , 1983 (with James R. Craig)
  • Hybrid Evaporative – Condenser Cooling Tower , 1983 (together with Uriyel Fisher and Jiashang Li)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Leidenfrost (1919 - 2007) on www.sysoon.com
  2. ^ Directory of Weinheimer Corps Students 1990, p. 277
personal data
SURNAME Leidenfrost, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1919
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2007
Place of death West Lafayette , Indiana, United States