Ovid A. (Gus) Plumb
Ovid A. (Gus) Plumb , Professor College of EngineeringUniversity of Wyoming College of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
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 and A.Y. Klimenko, The stability of evaporating fronts in porous media, Journal of Porous Media, to appear Volume 13 (2010), Issue 2, accepted for publication, November, 2008.
V.K. Chaitanya Pakala, O.A. Plumb, Heat Transfer at an Evaporating Front in Porous Media, Proceedings of HT2009, 2009 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 19-23, 2009 San Francisco, CA.
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,
Dordrecht
, 2006.Chemical Engineering Journal , 2006.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.
