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Ovid A. (Gus) Plumb, Professor College of Engineering
Room 2024, Engineering Building
University of Wyoming
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. 3295
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307.766.3226
Gus Plumb received BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He served on the mechanical and materials engineering faculty at Washington State University for 23 years prior to joining the University of Wyoming as Dean of the College of Engineering in 1999.
Research Interests
Fluid and thermal sciences; particularly transport phenomena in porous media, heat and mass transfer in energy and environmental systems, materials processing, and electronic cooling.
Recent Publications
O.A. Plumb, Industrial Gas Transport Processes Involving Heat Transfer, Chapt. 27, in Gas Transport in Porous Media, eds. C.K. Ho and S.W. Webb, Springer,
Zhao, Gui-Bing, S. John, J-J Zhang, L. Wang, S, Muknahallipatna, J. Hamann, J. Ackerman, M. Argyle, O.A. Plumb, Methane Conversion in Pulsed Corona Discharge Reactors, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2006.
H. Feng, J. Tang, O.A. Plumb, R.P. Cavalieri, Intrinsic and relative permeability for flow of humid air in unsaturated apple tissues, J.Food Engineering, 62, pp185-192, 2004.
Zhao, Gui-Bing, Xudong Hu, Man-Chung Yeung, O.A. Plumb, Maciej Radosz, Nonthermal Plasma Reatcions of Dilute Nitrogen Oxide Mixtures: NOx in Nitrogen, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, pp2315-2323, 2004.
Zhao, Gui-Bing, Xudong Hu, Ovid A. Plumb, Maciej Radosz, Energy Consumption and Optimal Reactor Configuration for Nonthermal Plasma Conversion of N2O in Nitrogen and N2O in Argon, Energy and Fuel, 18(5), pp1522-1530, 2004.
H. Feng, J. Tang, R.P. Cavalieri, and O.A. Plumb, Heat and Mass Transport in
Microwave Drying of Hygroscopic Porous Materials in a Spouted Bed, AIChE J.,
47(7), pp1499-1512, 2001.
O.A. Plumb, Transport Phenomena in Porous Media: Modeling the Drying Process, Chapt. 17, in Handbook of Porous Media, ed. By K. Vafai, Marcel Dekker, Inc, N.Y., pp. 755-785, 2000.
L.Gu, C.K. Ho, O.A. Plumb, and S.W. Webb, Vapor Diffusion in Partially Saturated Packed Beds, Proceedings of the 5th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, March 14-19, San Diego, 1999.
J.Y. Pak and O.A. Plumb, Melting in a Two-Component Packed Bed, J. Heat Transfer, Vol. 119, pp. 553-559,1997.