Experience

Gas turbine engineering: 25 years, primarily with General Electric, Evendale, OH

Nuclear and fossil fuel power plant engineering: 7 years, consultant to Diamond Power Specialty Corp., subsidiary of Babcock and Wilcox, Lancaster, OH

Nuclear engineering: 10 years with General Electric, Knolls Atomic Power Lab, Schenectady, NY

U. S. PATENTS BY ADIUTORI

5,353,865 Design impingement cooled surfaces to increase heat transfer by 40%

without increasing flow rate or pressure drop. (GE granted patent in October, 1994.)

5,269,468 Design gas turbine fuel nozzles to prevent overheating the fuel as it passes through the nozzle. (GE granted patent in December, 1993.)

4,978,230 Measure heat transfer coefficients on cooled or heated surfaces by testing actual hardware rather than simplistic scale models. (GE granted patent in December, 1990.)

4,916,715 Measure the distribution of heat flux and heat transfer coefficients on the heated surface of a cooled component used in a high temperature environment. (GE granted patent in April, 1990.)

4,902,139 Measure the thermal performance of a cooling or heating circuit. (GE granted patent in February, 1990.)

3,827,102 Measure the heat flux distribution in large fossil-fueled power plants by measuring the fluid flow behavior of the cooling circuit in soot blowers. (Babcock & Wilcox granted patent in August, 1974.)

3,542,486 Design pneumatic systems to film cool structural members in gas turbine engines. (GE granted patent in November, 1970.)

3,388,888 Design impingement inserts for improved cooling of turbine nozzles for high temperature turbine application. (GE granted patent in June, 1968.)

PUBLICATIONS BY ADIUTORI

2005/08 “Fourier, the Father of Modern Engineering”, Mechanical Engineering, 2005, Aug, 30-31 (also archived on www.memagazine, the website of Mechanical Engineering)

2005/07 “An Improved Form for Natural Convection Heat Transfer Correlations”, Strojniski vestnik—Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 51 (2005) 7-8, 374-378

2002 The New Engineering, Ventuno Press, 2002 Presents the new engineering, and demonstrates its application with numerous problems that concern electricity, heat transfer, stress/strain, and fluid flow.

1994/05 “A Critical Examination of the View that Nucleate Boiling Heat-Transfer Data Exhibit Power Law Behavior”, Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers International Journal, Fluids and Thermal Engineering, May, 1994, p. 394. Updated version of article accepted for publication in AIChE Journal in 1964, but never published (see 196404 below).

1990/08 “Origins of the Heat Transfer Coefficient”. Mechanical Engineering, August, 1990, p 46 Concludes that Fourier and not Newton should be credited with the heat transfer coefficient concept and with “Newton’s law of cooling”, q = h DT. Article is adapted from a paper presented at the Joint ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference, Philadelphia, August, 1989. That paper was adapted from a Ventuno Press monograph dated 10/29/85 and entitled “A New Look at the Origin of the Heat Transfer Coefficient Concept” by Eugene F. Adiutori.

1985/10 “A New Look at the Origin of the Heat Transfer Coefficient Concept”, Ventuno Press, October, 1985. Monograph published and distributed for free by Ventuno Press to persons who responded to ads that proclaimed “The Demise of a Myth”. 150 requests were received, and all were sent free copies of monograph. Monograph demonstrates that Fourier should be credited with h and with “Newton’s law of Cooling”.

1977 The New Heat Transfer, Russian edition by Mir (Moscow).

1974 The New Heat Transfer, Ventuno Press. Presents the new heat transfer, and describes what’s wrong with conventional heat transfer.

1965/12 “A New and Simple Concept for the Analysis of Non-linear Heat Transfer Phenomena Such as Boiling”. British Chemical Engineering, December, 1965, p. 840. “This is the essence of the new concept—namely to altogether avoid the use of heat transfer coefficients and instead to deal only with q and DT.”

1965’04 Ad in Nucleonics, April 1965, page 85. Ad is an abridged copy of the galley proofs of the nucleate boiling article (196404) received from the AIChE Journal. Ad offers to send free copies of unabridged galley proofs to readers who request copies.

1965/01 “Drifting Instability in Two-Phase Heat Transfer Systems”. British Chemical Engineering, January 1965, p. 6. Condensation of paper presented to AIChE meeting in Las Vegas, September, 1964. States that thermal instability is cause, derives stability criterion, and offers cures.

1964/05 “New Theory of Thermal Stability in Boiling Systems”. Nucleonics, May, 1964, p 92. Pioneering article on thermal stability. Derives stability criterion, and describes its application. Presents boiling curve for liquid metals as a hypothetical. Brought rapid, negative response from “Argonne Seven”.

1964/04 “Nucleate Boiling: The Relationship Between Heat Flux and Thermal Driving Force” AIChE Journal. Accepted for publication on April 21, 1964, but never published. Article demonstrates that literature data describe a linear relationship, and therefore nonlinear correlations (such as the widely accepted Rohsenow correlation) are not rigorous. Updated version published in Japanese journal in 1994 (see 199405 above).

PUBLISHED LETTERS REGARDING ADIUTORI’S WORK

1989/10 “On the chronology of progress on thermal stability”, Int Jour Ht Mass Trsfr, October, 1989. My letter points that my 1964 Nucleonics article and followup published letter were pioneering, and other authors should respect the priority of those articles.

1989/05 Erratum by Professor John H. Lienhard IV. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, May, 1989. “Many of us have credited an important discovery to the wrong authors.” Cites priority of my 1964 Nucleonics article and letter with regard to thermal stability.

1985/02 “Comments on article by G. Danko”. Int Jour Ht Mass Trsfr, February, 1985. Letter by me. Refers to Danko’s article ( in the November 1983 issue of Int Jour Ht Mass Trsfr) in which he proposed “a new local heat transport coefficient defined by dq/dDT. This parameter might be called the local physical heat transfer coefficient.” My letter points out that this type of h was discussed in The New Heat Transfer, and was rejected in favor of abandoning all heat transfer coefficients.

1977/01 “Comments on O.A. Saunders’ Review of The New Heat Transfer”, Int Jour Ht Mass Trsfr, January, 1977, v 20, p 1427. Letter is by M. A. Llory. He has kudos for the new heat transfer.

1965/10 “A Vote for Adiutori”, Nucleonics, October, 1965. By Professor Graham B. Wallis, Dartmouth College. (I had given a seminar on thermal stability at Wallis’s summer course, and he used what he had learned there to show that my analysis of Berenson’s results was correct. However, he neglected to point out that he had attended my seminar, and that he was merely repeating what he learned in my seminar.) “Adiutori’s theory is perfectly valid, if interpreted correctly, and may be useful.” Very slight praise—it may be useful??? It is not necessary to say that my theory is valid if interpreted correctly, since this stipulation applies to all theories.

1964/12 “Thermal Stability View Disputed”, Nucleonics, December, 1964, p. 6 Argonne Comments” by Heineman, Fauske, Lottes, and Hoglund, “Westinghouse Comments” by Larsen and Tong, “Author’s Reply” by me, “Other Comments” by George Leppert of Stanford University, Kurt Goldman of United Nuclear Corp., Mario Silvestri of CESNEF, Milan, Italy, and Sol Levy, GE (APED). All comments were negative.

My reply was based on a copy of the Argonne letter I received from the editor of Nucleonics. The editor wrote that the published version of the Argonne letter would be identical to the copy he sent me, but apparently he later changed his mind, and the published version of the Argonne letter was not identical to the copy he sent me. The copy he sent me, and to which he asked me to reply, was signed by seven Argonne “scientists”, and used the word “hoax” in reference to my article. In the published version of the Argonne letter the word “hoax” was changed to “totally unsatisfactory”, and the number of authors was reduced from seven to four.

In my reply, I responded to the word “hoax” with considerable heat. Since the word “hoax” had been changed to “totally unsatisfactory”, my response seemed unreasonable and irrational. In any even, I cited Berenson’s experiment to validate my view of thermal stability beyond any question (for open-minded persons).

PRESENTATIONS BY ADIUTORI

2004/07 “A Critical Examination of Correlation Methodology Widely Used in Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow”. Demonstrates that the widely used methodology is not rigorous when applied to phenomena that do not occur near 0,0—phenomena such as turbulent fluid flow and boiling heat transfer. presented at 2004 ASME Heat Transfer/ Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, July 11-15, in Charlotte, NC

2004/06 “An Improved Form for Natural Convection Heat Transfer Correlation”. Demonstrates that natural convection heat transfer correlations are improved if the heat transfer coefficient is eliminated in order to separate the variables heat flux and temperature difference. Presented at ASME-ZSIS International Thermal Science Seminar (ITSS II), June 13-16, 2004, in Bled, Slovenia

2003/10 “The New Engineering”. Invited speaker at the University of Mexico, Mexico City, October 14 and 15, 2003.

1994/06 “The Highly Nonlinear Thermal Behavior of Film Cooling”. Demonstrates that film cooling is highly nonlinear over large temperature differences, and therefore the widely used film effectiveness concept is not very useful in applications that involve large temperature differences, such as in the cooling of gas turbine components. Talk was to be given at 1994 ASME Turbo Expo in The Hague. Talk was 94-GT-178, but was not given because of health problem, and was not printed in conference proceeding because talk was not given.

1992/11 “Thermal Check—A Simple and Accurate Bench Test for Measuring the As-Built Heat Transfer Performance of Cooling (or Heating) Circuits in Gas Turbine Components”. Presented at ASME 1992 Winter Annual Meeting in Anaheim, November, 1992. Describes detailed application of US Patent 4,902,139, Inventor Eugene F. Adiutori. HTD-Vol. 226, p. 17, Fundamental and Applied Heat Transfer Research for Gas Turbine Engines, ASME 1992

1992/08 “The Derivation and Application of Criteria for the Thermal Stability of Heat Transfer Media”. Presents criterion for heat transfer stability of a fluid acting as a heat source. Explains why the experimental boiler of Lienhard and Ramilison was unable to operate in most of the transition region of the boiling curve, even though the design intent was to enable operation in the transition region. Presented at 28^th National Heat Transfer Conference in San Diego in August, 1992. Printed in ASME HTD-Vol. 204, pp 89-95

1992/08 “A New View of Dimensional Homogeneity, and Its Impact on the Fundamental Equations and Parameters of Heat Transfer Science”. Presents new view of homogeneity that improves heat transfer science because it does not require heat transfer coefficients for homogeneity. Presented at 28th National Heat Transfer Conference in San Diego in August, 1992. Printed in ASME HTD-Vol. 204, pp. 1-8

1991/06 “A New and Simple Concept to Replace Film Effectiveness”. Shows that film effectiveness concept should be replaced by proposed concept because film cooling is a highly nonlinear phenomenon whereas film effectiveness can cope only with proportional behavior. Presented at 1991 ASME Turbo Expo (IGTI) in June 1991 in Orlando

1991/03 “Thermal Behavior in the Transition Region Between Nucleate and Film Boiling”. Shows that relationship is linear, even though generally accepted relationship is highly nonlinearr. Presented at 3^rd ASME-JSME Therm Eng Jt. Conf. Printed in Proceedings, v 2, pp51-58

1989/08 “A New Look at the Origin of the Heat Transfer Coefficient Concept”. Shows that Newton should not be credited with heat transfer coefficient concept because it was conceived by Fourier 100 years after Newton’s death. Presented at Jt. ASME/AIChE National Heat TransferConference, August, 1989, Philadelphia. Printed as 89-HT-3.

1988/08 “The New Heat Transfer”. Invited speaker at IMEX (Mexican Petroleum Institute) and University of Mexico on August 3 and 4, 1988

1986/08 “What’s Wrong with h?” Shows that h (heat transfer coefficient) should be abandoned because it complicates the solution of nonlinear problems. Presented at the 8^th Intl. Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, August, 1986.

1979/06 “The New Heat Transfer”. One week course on the new heat transfer given at Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo refinery in Tampico, June, 1979. Course was arranged by Professor Alejandro Anaya Durand of IMEX and University of Mexico.

1975/08 “The New Heat Transfer”. Unendorsed talk given in the evening in a rented room—At 15^th National Heat Transfer Conference in San Francisco, August, 1975. Professor Eckert came to my talk, but was more amused than convinced.

1975/07 “The New Heat Transfer—Application and Instruction” Presented at VI Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering, Caracas, July 1975. Co-authored with Professor Alejandro Anaya Durand of IMEX and University of Mexico.

1975/03 “The New Heat Transfer—Comment and Critique”. Essentially a debate with Professor Ken Bell. At AIChE Annual Meeting in Houston, March, 1975.

1974/07 “The New Heat Transfer”. Invited speaker at IMIQ (Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers) conference in Mexico City, July, 1974. Arranged by Professor Alejandro Anaya Durand of IMEX (Mexican Petroleum Institute) and University of Mexico.

1964/09 “Drifting Instability in Two Phase Systems”. Presented at AIChE meeting in Las Vegas, September, 1964. Explains drifting instability I observed in 300 KW system at Evendale in 1963, presents stability criterion, and describes several cures.

1964/08 “Transition Boiling—The Relationship Between Heat Flux and Thermal Driving Force”. Presented at Open Forum, ASME/AIChE Heat Transfer Conference in Cleveland, August, 1964. Demonstrates that literature data indicate subject relationship is linear rather than widely accepted nonlinear relationship.