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Emmanuel K. Glakpe, Ph.D

Professor, Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences E-mail: eglakpe@howard.edu Office Phone: 202-806-7741 Office Address: L.K. Downing Hall 2300 6th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20059
Biographical Sketch: Professor Emmanuel Glakpes research focuses on the development of a numerical model to predict the thermal performance of solar heat receivers for space solar dynamic power systems. The model includes the multi-conjugate effects of canister outside surface radiation, combined conduction in the canister walls and phase change material (PCM), conduction in the working fluid tube, and convective transport of thermal energy in a low-Prandtl-number gas. Selected measurable parameters are varied to assess their effects on the thermal performance of the NASA Lewis Research Center's Ground Test Demonstration (GTD) solar heat receiver, which incorporates the use of a eutectic mixture of LiF-CaF2 as the PCM and a mixture of He/Xe as the working fluid. The numerical results show excellent comparison with GTD experimental results in steadystate mode, and excellent quantitative agreement is observed near sunset in the balanced-orbit and transition modes of cyclic operation. Representative Publications: 1. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Modeling Cyclic Phase Change and Energy Storage in Solar Heat Receivers", 32nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23-25, 1997, AIAA Paper No.97-2452; also accepted for publication in the AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, JulySept. 1998. 2. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Parametric Analysis of Cyclic Phase Change and Energy Storage in Solar Heat Receivers." Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, Paper # 97053, Vol. 1, pp. 446-453, July 27-August 1,1997 3. Hall, C.A., III., Glakpe, E.K., Cannon, J.N., and Kerslake, T.W., "Thermal State-of-Charge in Solar Heat Receivers." Proceedings of the 36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, paper # 98-1017, Reno, Nevada, January 1998.

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Research Fields: Convective (Free, Forced and Mixed) Heat Transfer Numerical Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Applications Efficient Energy Utilization Thermal State of Charge in Solar Heat Receivers