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JOURNAL PAPERS:

  • Hoffman, D. W., Mastin, L. G., Van Eaton, A. R., Solovitz, S. A., Cal, R. B., and Eaton, J. K., “A one-dimensional volcanic plume model for predicting ash aggregation,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 128, p. e2023JB027002, doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027002, September 2023.
  • Viggiano, B., Gish, K., Solovitz, S. A., and Cal, R. B., “Inertial particle clustering due to turbulence in an air jet,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, August 2023, submitted for publication.
  • Shannon, L. K., Viggiano, B., Cal, R. B., Mastin, L. G., Van Eaton, A. R., and Solovitz, S. A., “Flow development and entrainment in turbulent particle-laden jets,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 128, p. e2022JD038108, doi.org/10.1029/2022JD038108, June 2023.
  • Cahalan, R. C., Mastin, L. G., Van Eaton, A. R., Hurwitz, S., Smith, A. B., Dufek, J., Solovitz, S. A., Patrick, M., Schmith, J., Parcheta, C., Thelen, W. A., and Downs, D. T., “Dynamics of the December 2020 ash-poor plume formed by lava-water interaction at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi,” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 24, p. e2022GC010718, doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010718, March 2023.
  • Solovitz, S. A., “Development of an inverse plume model for mass eruption rate in unsteady conditions,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 143, No. 9, September 2021, doi.org/10.1115/1.4050900, 091302, pp. 1-8.
  • Viggiano, B., Basset, T., Solovitz, S., Barois, T., Gibert, M., Mordant, N., Chevillard, L., Volk, R., Bourgoin, M., and Cal, R. B., “Lagrangian diffusion properties of a free shear turbulent jet,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 918, A25, doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.325, July 2021.
  • Viggiano, B., Sakradse, G., Smith, S., Mungin, R., Ramasubramanian, P., Ringle, D., Travis, K., Ali, N., Solovitz, S., and Cal, R. B., “Intermittent Event Evaluation through a Multifractal Approach for Variable Density Jets,” Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, Vol. 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.110799, March 2021.
  • Freedland, G. A., Eliason, G., Solovitz, S. A. and Cal, R. B., “The role of turbulent inflow on the development of a round jet in cross-flow,” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 84, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2020.108592, March 2020.
  • McNeal, J. S., Freedland, G. A., Mastin, L. G., Cal, R. B., and Solovitz, S. A., “Investigating the Accuracy of One-Dimensional Volcanic Plume Models using Laboratory Experiments and Field Data,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 124, doi:10.1029/2018JB017224, November 2019.
  • Zielinski, A. J. and Solovitz, S. A., “Flow Analysis of the Impingement of a Variable-Diameter Synthetic Jet,” Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2019, pp. 127-148.
  • McNeal, J. S., Jones, J., Cal., R. B., Kim, D., and Solovitz, S. A., “Experimental study of analogue vent erosion towards nozzle shapes,” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 367, November 2018, pp. 79-87.
  • Garate, J., Solovitz, S. A., and Kim, D., “Fabrication and Performance of Segmented Thermoplastic Composite Wind Turbine Blades,” International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2018, pp. 271-277.
  • Viggiano, B., Dib, T., Ali, N., Mastin, L. G., Cal, R. B., and Solovitz, S. A., “Turbulence, Entrainment, and Low-order Description of a Transitional Variable-density Jet,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 836, February 2018, pp. 1009-1049.
  • Henderson, S. M., Arnold, J. L., Ozkan-Haller, H. T., and Solovitz, S. A., “Depth Dependence of Nearshore Currents and Eddies,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Vol. 122, doi:10.1002/2016JC012349, November 2017.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Ghaffari, O., and Arik, M., “Frequency-dependent flow response of a high-speed rectangular synthetic jet,” Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, December 2016, pp. 93-116.
  • Albright, S. O. and Solovitz, S. A.,“Examination of a Variable-diameter Synthetic Jet,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol 138, No. 12, December 2016, 121103, pp. 1-9.
  • Ghaffari, O., Solovitz, S. A., Ikhlaq, M., and Arik, M., “An Investigation into Flow and Heat Transfer of an Ultrasonic Micro-blower Device for Electronics Cooling Applications,” Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.06.094, June 2016, pp. 881-889.
  • Ghaffari, O., Solovitz, S. A., and Arik, M., “An Investigation into Flow and Heat Transfer for a Slot Impinging Synthetic Jet,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 100, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.04.115, May 2016.
  • Walder, J., Iverson, R. M., Godt, J., Logan, M., and Solovitz, S. A., “Controls on the Breach Geometry and Flood Hydrograph During Overtopping of Non-cohesive Earthen Dams,” Water Resources Research, Vol. 51, doi:10.1002/2014WR016620, July 2015.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Ogden, D. E., Kim, D., and Kim, S. Y., “Coupled Fluid and Solid Evolution in Analogue Volcanic Vents,”Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 119, doi:10.1002/2014JB010993, June 2014.
  • Kwon, H., Xu, Y., Solovitz, S. A., Xue, W., Dimitrov, A. G., Coffin, A. B., and Xu, J., “Design of a Microfluidic Device with a Non-traditional Flow Profile for On-chip Zebrafish Study,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 24, January 2014, 017001, pp. 1-7.
  • Solovitz, S. A., “Analysis of parallel micro-channels for flow control and hot spot cooling,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2013, 041007, pp. 1-13.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Zhao, J., Xue, W., and Xu, J., “Uniform Flow Control for a Multi-passage Microfluidic Sensor,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 135, No. 2, February 2013, 021101, pp. 1-8.
  • Saffaraval, F. and Solovitz, S. A., “Near-exit Flow Physics of a Moderately Overpressured Jet,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 24, 086101, August 2012.
  • Saffaraval, F., Solovitz, S. A., Ogden, D. E., and Mastin, L. G., “Impact of Reduced Near-Field Entrainment of Overpressured Volcanic Jets on Plume Development,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, B05209, May 2012.
  • Conder, T. E. and Solovitz, S. A., “Computational Optimization of a Groove-enhanced Mini-channel,” Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 10, October 2011, pp. 1-15.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Arik, M., “System-level Metrics for Thermal Management Technology,” Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2011, 031009, pp. 1-12.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Mainka, J., “Manifold Design for Micro-channel Cooling with Uniform Flow Distribution,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 5, May 2011, 051103, pp. 1-11.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Mastin, L. G., and Saffaraval, F., “Experimental Study of Near-Field Entrainment of Moderately Overpressured Jets,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 5, May 2011, 051304, pp. 1-12.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Conder, T. E., “Flow and Thermal Investigation of a Groove-enhanced Mini-channel Application,”Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2010, 011008, pp. 1-15.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Mastin, L. G., “Experimental Study of Near-Field Entrainment by Subsonic Volcanic Jets,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, B10203, doi:10.1029/2009JB006298, October 2009.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Jokar, A., “Micro-particle image velocimetry visualization of water flow in a complex micro-heat exchanger,” Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2009, pp. 221-236.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Stevanovic, L. D., and Beaupre, R. A., “Microchannels Take Heatsinks to the Next Level,” Power Electronics Technology, November 2006, pp. 14-20 (cover article).
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Eaton, J. K., “Dynamic Flow Response Due to Motion of Partial-Span Gurney-Type Flaps,” AIAA Journal, Volume 42, Number 9, September 2004, pp. 1729-1736.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Eaton, J. K., “Spanwise Response Variation for Partial-Span Gurney-Type Flaps,” AIAA Journal, Volume 42, Number 8, August 2004, pp. 1640-1643.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Eaton, J. K., “Experimental Aerodynamics of Mesoscale Trailing-Edge Actuators,” AIAA Journal, Volume 40, Number 12, December 2002, pp. 2538-2540.

BOOKS:

  • Solovitz, S. A., Viscous Flow, Lulu Press, March 2023.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Fundamentals of Renewable Energy, Second Edition, Lulu Press, September 2022, (First Edition published in June 2020).

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

  • McCreary, C. and Solovitz, S. A., “Development of power-law design tool for hotspot mitigation using parallel microchannel heat exchanger,” Proceedings of the 2023 iTherm Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2023.
  • Embury, M. C. and Solovitz, S. A., “Impingement Cooling Using a Virtual Orifice Synthetic Jet,” Proceedings of the 2020 iTherm Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2020.
  • Zielinski, A., Embury, M, and Solovitz, S. A., “Impingement Cooling Using a Variable-Diameter Synthetic Jet,” Proceedings of the 2018 iTherm Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2018.
  • Parsa, S. H., Ghaffari, O., Solovitz, S. A., and Arik, M., “Flow and Heat Transfer Study of an Impinging Piezoelectric Fan Over a Vertical Surface,” Proceedings of the 2016 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Paper #: HT2016-7097, Washington, DC, July 2016.
  • Garate, J. B., Solovitz, S. A., and Kim, D., “A Preliminary Study on Small Thermoplastic Composite Wind Turbine Blade Fabrication,” Proceedings of the 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper #: IMECE2015-51745, Houston, TX, November 2015.
  • Albright, S. O. and Solovitz, S. A., “Development of a Variable-diameter Synthetic Jet Actuator,” Proceedings of the 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper #: IMECE2014-36936, Montreal, QC, November 2014.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Lewis, M., “Tailored parallel micro-channel cooling for hot spot mitigation,” Proceedings of the iTherm 2014 Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2014.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Kim, D., and Ogden, D. E., “Examination of Flow Response to Vent Shape Modification,” Proceedings of the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Abstract V23C-2843, December 2013, poster.
  • Walder, J. S., Iverson, R. M., Logan, M., Godt, J., and Solovitz, S. A., “Hydraulics of embankment-dam breaching,”Proceedings of the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Abstract EP51D-04, December 2012 .
  • Solovitz, S. A., Kim, D., and Ogden, D. E., “Experimental Investigation of Vent Evolution for High-speed Jets,” Proceedings of the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Abstract V11B-2751, December 2012, poster.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Kim, D., and Ogden, D. E., “Evolution of Vent Geometry for High-speed Jets,” Proceedings of the 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, November 2012, poster.
  • Kwon, H., Xu, Y., Solovitz, S. A., Xue, W., Dimitrov, A. G., Coffin, A. B., and Xu, J., “Design of a Microfluidic Device to Induce Noise Damage in Hair Cells of the Zebrafish Lateral Line,” Proceedings of the 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper #: IMECE2012-87135, Houston, TX, November 2012.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Saffaraval, F., Ogden, D. E., and Mastin, L. G., “Impact of Near-Exit Entrainment on Plume Development,”Proceedings of the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Abstract V41E-06, December 2011.
  • Saffaraval, F. and Solovitz, S. A., “Experimental Study of Entrainment Ratio of the Near Exit Region of High-speed Jets,”Proceedings of the 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper #: IMECE2011-63661, Denver, CO, November 2011.
  • Saffaraval, F., Solovitz, S. A. and Mastin, L. G., “Examination of Near-field Entrainment of High-speed Jets,” Proceedings of the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2010, poster.
  • Jokar, A. and Solovitz, S. A., “Applied Engineering Research in Developing a Thermo/Fluids Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,  Paper #: IMECE2010-37001, Vancouver, BC, November 2010.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Arik, M., “Heat sink metrics for high-performance cooling methodologies,” Proceedings of the iTherm 2010 Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 2010.
  • Stevanovic, L. D., Pautsch, A., Beaupre, R. A., Gowda, A., Sabate, J., and Solovitz, S. A., “Power Electronics Module with Integral Microchannel Heatsink,” Proceedings of the 2010 Power Conversion Intelligent Motion Meeting, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2010.
  • Stevanovic, L. D., Pautsch, A., Beaupre, R. A., Gowda, A., and Solovitz, S. A., “Integral Micro-channel Liquid Cooling for Power Electronics,” Proceedings of the 2010 Applied Power Electronics Conference, Palm Springs, CA, February 2010.
  • Mastin, L. G. and Solovitz, S. A., “Air entrainment and the dynamics of volcanic jets and plumes,” EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V34A-05, December 2008.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and T. E. Conder, “Integral Micro-channel Packages for Enhanced Thermal Performance,” Proceedings of the 2008 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper #: IMECE2008-66423, Boston, MA, November 2008.
  • Solovitz, S. A., “Computational Study of Grooved Micro-channel Enhancements,” Proceedings of the Sixth International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2008.
  • Stevanovic, L., Solovitz, S., and Beaupre, R., “Advanced Power Module with Integrated Microchannel Cooling,”Proceedings of the 2006 ASME Electric Machines Technology Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2006.
  • Solovitz, S. A., Stevanovic, L. D., and Beaupre, R. A., “Micro-channel Thermal Management of High Power Devices,”Proceedings of the 2006 Applied Power Electronics Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2006.
  • Solovitz, S. A. and Eaton, J. K., “Aeroelastic Control Using Redundant Microactuators,” FEDSM99-7185, Proceedings of the 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 1999.

THESIS:

  • Solovitz, S. A., Experimental Aerodynamics of Mesoscale Trailing-Edge Actuators, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, December 2002.

PATENTS:

  • US 8486710 (B2), “Method, sensor and system for measuring a lower heating value and a wobbe index of a gaseous fuel,” General Electric Company, Antel, W. J., Nirmalan, N. V., Solovitz, S. A., Vats, N., Dey, S., Orenstein, R. M., Moorman, M., and Manginell, R. P., July 2013.
  • US 8358000 (B2), “Double side cooled power module with power overlay,” General Electric Company, Beaupre, R.A., Gowda, A., Stevanovic, L.D., and Solovitz, S., January 2013.
  • US 8051905 (B2), “Cooling systems employing fluidic jets, methods for their use and methods for cooling,” General Electric Company, Arik, M., Wetzel, T. G., and Solovitz, S. A, November 2011.
  • US 7969734 (B2), “Unique cooling scheme for advanced thermal management of high flux electronics,” General Electric Company, Arik, M., Balan, C., Wetzel, T. G., Solovitz, S. A., Byrd, C. M., and Weaver, S. E., June 2011.
  • US 7817422 (B2), “Heat sink and cooling and packaging stack for press-packages,” General Electric Company, Gunturi, S. S., Balasubramaniam, M., Mallina, R. V., Beaupre, R.A., Yan, L., Zhang, R. S., Stevanovic, L.D., Pautsch, A. G., and Solovitz, S. A., October 2010.
  • European patent, “Double side cooled power module with power overlay,” General Electric Company, Beaupre, R.A., Gowda, A., Stevanovic, L.D., and Solovitz, S., May 2010.
  • European patent, “Advanced and Integrated Cooling for Press-Packages,” General Electric Company, Zhang, R., Beaupre, R.A., Mallina, R., Gowda, A., Yan, L., Stevanovic, L.D., Morley, P., and Solovitz, S., March 2010.
  • US 7353859 (B2), “Heat sink with microchannel cooling for power devices,” General Electric Company, Stevanovic, L. D. and Solovitz, S. A, April 2008.