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Thomas Diller, PhD

1972 HERTZ FELLOW

MAKING HISTORY

Thomas Diller has been a professor at Virginia Tech for the past 35 years, and his current research focuses on the development and use of new instrumentation for measuring heat transfer. Applications include building insulation, jet impingement heat transfer and high-temperature unsteady flows, such as found in gas turbine engines, re-entry vehicles, and combustion environments. Biomedical applications include non-invasively measuring blood perfusion in the human body and characterization of burns. He continues to work to transition research results to industrial and laboratory applications. He worked in industry for several years after finishing a doctorate at MIT in mechanical engineering and founded a successful company making heat flux instrumentation. He has been a past chair of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) technical committee on biomedical heat and mass transfer.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Thesis
Oxygen Diffusion Through Flowing Blood

Undergraduate Studies
Carnegie Mellon University

 

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