Mohamed El-Genk

Before joining the faculty in the school of engineering at UNM, Dr. El-Genk has spent 13 years in energy and nuclear industry. In 2018, he was promoted to the rank of distinguished Professor, the highest owner bestowed upon a member of the faculty at UNM, in 2001 he was named the 46th Annual Research Lecturer, one of the highest faculty honors, and 1996 he was named Regents' Professor, an honor shared by a few faculty at UNM. He received the Presidential Lectureship Award (1984-85), the Graduate Students' Outstanding Teacher Award (1987-88), the School of Engineering's Research Excellence Award (1988) and Teaching Excellence Award (1989), and Student's Faculty Recognition Award (1996).

He has supervised 30 Masters Theses, with 1 pending, and 32 Doctoral Dissertations, with 4 pending. El-Genk is a prolific author with more than 380 refereed articles, 262 complete conference Proceedings articles, 6 book chapters, 85 technical reports, and 57 transactions articles to his credit. Hel holds 6 patents and has published a book "Critical Review of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion 1984-1993," and 55 book volumes containing more than 5,000 full technical papers on many technical topics related to terrestrial and space nuclear reactors and power systems.

He has been named Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He received DOE Certificate of Appreciation for the Outstanding Contributions to Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion and served on NASAs Space Exploration of the Solar System Technology Assessment Group and the Advanced Radioisotope Power System (ARPS) Team Technology Assessment and Recommended Roadmap for Potential NASA Code S Missions Beyond 2011.

He is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer; and the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Frontiers in Heat Pipes, the International Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress; the Journal of Nuclear Energy Science and Power Generation Technology and is the AIChE-US representative on the Assembly of the International Heat Transfer Conference, Editor of the Internal Journal of process Systems Engineering-Energy Systems Processes, former Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, member of the IAASS Academic Committee, and life member of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

He is the recipient of the ANS Distinguished Faculty Member Honor, AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division Award, AIChE 2009 Donald Q. Kern Award, ASME heat transfer memorial award, and AIAA, ANS, ASME and AIChE Certificates for Distinguished Leadership and Services.

He served on and chaired the ASME/AIChE Board for the prestigious Max Jacob Memorial Award in heat transfer, the AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award Committee, the ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference Coordinating Committee and AIChE Executive Committees of the Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division and of the Transport and Energy Processes Division. He is the recipient of other national and international prestigious honors.

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, 2015 Thermal-Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award, American Nuclear Society, “in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the understanding of terrestrial and space reactor thermal hydraulics phenomena and for his impact on the thermal hydraulics community as a researcher, educator, and leader

• Recipient, 2017 Heat Transfer Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), “for outstanding Contributions to boiling enhancement; immersion cooling of electronics; force, natural and combined convection in rod bundles; heat pipes and thermosyphons; imping and swirling jets heat transfer; thermal-hydraulics of nuclear reactors; and thermal management of space nuclear power systems

• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2019 – present

• Member, Editorial Board, J. Nuclear Energy Science and Power Generation Technology (JNPGT), 2012 – present.

• Scientific Council of International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, Ankara, Turkey, 2006- present.

• Chair, ASME / AIChE Max Jacob Award Committee, 2005 –06.

• The University of New Mexico’s 46th Annual Research Lecturer Award for 2001, the highest honor the University bestows upon members of its faculty, 2001.

• NASA Advanced Radioisotope System (ARPS) Team, Technology Assessment and Recommended Roadmap for Potential NASA Code S Missions Beyond 2011, 2000 - 01.

• NASA Space Exploration of the Solar System Technology Assessment Group, 2001- 02.

• Chair, technical Program Board, AIChE HT&EG Division, 1996 - 99.

• AIChE Delegate on Assembly of Int. Heat Transfer Conference, 1999 - present.

• Chair, D. Q. Kern Award Committee, AIChE HT&EC Division, 1998-99.

• Regents’ Professor, school of Engineering, UNM, 1996.

• AIChE Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion (HTEC) Division Award, November 2000.

• Fellow, International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), 2008.

• Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1999.

• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999.

• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 1999.

• Editor, International Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, 1999-present.

• Fellow, American Nuclear Society (ANS), 1996.

• Editor, AIChE Symposium Series - Heat Transfer, 1994 - 97.

• United States Department of Energy Certificate of Appreciation, for an Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion, December 1992.

• Teaching Excellence Award, Engineering Alumni Club, UNM, 1989-90.

• Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, UNM, 1988-89.

• Graduate Students' Outstanding Teacher Award, CHNE-UNM, 1987-88.

• ANS Distinguished Faculty Member Honor, Alpha Nu Sigma Honor Society for Nuclear Science and Engineering, 1987.

• Presidential Lectureship Award, College of Engineering, UNM, 1985-86.

• Active for life Member, the Honor Society of Phi-Kappa-Phi, 1979-present

Selected publications:

• El-Genk, M. S., and L. M. Palomino, “A Walk-Away Safe, Very Small, Long-LIfe, Modular (VSLLIM) Reactor for portable and Stationary Power,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 129 (2019) 181 – 198.

• El-Genk, M. S. and M. Pourghasemi, “Nusselt Number and Development Length Correlations for Laminar Flows of Water and Air in Microchannels,” Inter. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 133, (2019), 277 - 294.

• Cowen, B. J. and M. S. El-Genk, “Characterization of Radiation Damage in TiO2 using Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” J. Modeling and Simulation in Material Science and Engineering, 26, (2018) 085005.

• El-Genk, M. S., K. Talaat, and B. J. Cowen, “Thermal Conductivity of Silicon using Reverse Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics,” J. Applied Physics, 123, 205104 (2018); doi: 10.1063/1.5030871.

• Schriener, T. M. and M. S. El-Genk, “Effects of Decreasing Fuel Enrichment on the Design of the Pellet Bed Reactor (PeBR) for Lunar Outposts,” J. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 104, (2018), 288 – 297.

• El-Genk, M. S. and T. M. Schriener, “Post-Operation Radiological Source Term and Dose Estimates for the Scalable LIquid Metal-cooled small Modular Reactor,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 115, (2018), 442-458.

• Haskins, D. A. and M. S. El-Genk,” Natural Circulation Thermal-hydraulics Model and Analyses of “SLIMM”- A Small Modular Reactor,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 101, (2017), 516 – 527.

• El-Genk, M. S. and T. M. Schriener, “A Review and Correlations for Convection Heat Transfer and Pressure Losses in Toroidal and Helically Coiled Tubes,” J. Heat Transfer Engineering, 38 (5), (2017).

• El-Genk, M. S., L. M. Palomino, and T. M. Schriener, “Low-Enrichment and Long-Life Scalable LIquid Metal Cooled Small Modular Reactor (SLIMM-1.2),” J. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 316 (2017), 163- 185.

• El-Genk, M. S. and T. M. Schriener, “A Review of Experimental Data and Heat Transfer Correlations for Parallel Flow of Alkali Liquid Metals and Lead-Bismuth Eutectic in Bundles,” J. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 317, (2017), 199-219.

• El-Genk, M. S. and J.-M. Tournier, “A Point Kinetics Model and Dynamic Simulation of Next Generation Nuclear Reactor,” Progress in Nuclear Energy, 92, (2016), 91-103.

• Haskins, D. A. and M. S. El-Genk, “CFD Analyses and Correlation of Pressure Losses on the Shell-Side of Concentric, Helically-Coiled Tubes Heat Exchanger,” J. Nuclear Engineering & Design, 305, (2016), 531-546.

• Suszko, A., and M. S. El-Genk, “Thermally Anisotropic Composite Heat Spreaders for Enhanced Thermal Management of High Performance Microprocessors,” Int. J. Thermal Sciences, 100, 213-228, 2015.

• El-Genk, M. S. and A. F. Ali, “Saturation Boiling Critical Heat Flux of PF-5060 Dielectric Liquid on Microporous Copper Surfaces,” J. Heat Transfer, 137, (2015), 041501-1 – 041501-12, doi: 10.1115/1.4029455.

• El-Genk, M. S. and A. Suszko, 2014, “Saturation and Subcooled CHF Correlations for PF-5060 Dielectric Liquid on Inclined Rough Copper Surfaces,” Multiphase Science and Technology, 26(2), (2014), 139 -170.

• El-Genk, M. S., J.-M. Tournier, and C. I. Contescu, “Chemical Kinetics Parameters and Model Validation for the Gasification of PCEA Nuclear Graphite,” J. Nuclear Materials, 444, (2014), 112 - 128.

• Yang, In-Hwan and M. S. El-Genk, “Numerical Analysis of Co-flowing Immiscible Liquids in Co-axial Microtubes: Flow Regimes Map and Boundaries Correlations,” Int. J. Micro-Nano Scale Transport, 3 (3), (2013), 79-102.

• Boyce W. Travis and Mohamed S. El-Genk, “Thermal-hydraulics analyses of 1/6 prismatic VHTR core and fuel element with and without bypass flow,” J. Energy Conversion and Management, 67, (2013), 326 – 341.

• El-Genk, M. S. and J.-M. P. Tournier, “Sherwood Number Correlation for Nuclear Graphite Gasification at high Temperatures,” J. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 62, (2013), 26 -36.

• El-Genk, M. S. and J.-M. P. Tournier, “Transient Gasification in an NBG-18 Coolant Channel of a VHTR Prismatic Fuel Element,” J. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 64, (2013), 16 – 30.

• El-Genk, M. S. “Nucleate Boiling Enhancements on Porous Graphite and Micro-porous and Macro-Finned Copper Surfaces,” J. Heat Transfer Engineering, 33(3), (2012), 175 - 204.

• Schriener, T. M. and M. S. El-Genk, “Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of a Liquid Metal Fast Reactor for Expandable Lunar Surface Power,” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 41, (2012), 48-60.

• Yang, In-Hwan and M. S. El-Genk, “Emulsion Formation in Dripping Regime of Co-Flowing Immiscible Liquids in Co-Axial Mictotubes,” Inter. Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport, 2 (1), (2011), 57 – 83

• El-Genk, M. S. and J.-M. P. Tournier, “Uses of Liquid-Metal and Water Heat Pipes in Space Reactor Power Systems,” Frontiers in Heat Pipes, 2(1), (2011), 3002.

• M. S. El-Genk, “The Challenges of Introducing Nuclear Power in the Gulf Cooperation Council States,” Inter. J. Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, 3 (1), (2010).

• M. S. El-Genk and Tournier, J.-M., “Effects of Working Fluid and Shaft Rotation Speed on the Performance of HTR Plants and the Size of CBC Turbo-Machine,” J. Nuclear Eng. & Design, 239, (2010), 1811-1827.

• El-Genk. M. S. and Gallo, B. M., “High-Power Brayton Rotating Unit for Space Reactor and Solar Power Systems,” J. Propulsion and Power, 26 (1), 2010, 167 - 176.

• Rodriguez, S. B., and El-Genk, M. S., “Numerical Investigation of Potential Elimination of ‘Hot Streaking’ and Stratification in VHTR Lower Plenum Using Helicoid Inserts,” J. Nuclear Eng. & Design, 240, 2010, 995 –

• M. S. El-Genk, “Toward Global Standards on Peaceful Uses of Space Nuclear Reactor Power Systems,” J. British Interplanetary Society, 62 (7/8), (2009), 282 – 293.

• M. S. El-Genk, “Deployment History and Design Considerations for Space Reactor Power Systems,” Acta Astronautica, 64, (2009), 883-849.

• Hatton, S. H. and M. S. El-Genk, “Sectored Compact Space Reactor (SCoRe) Concepts with a Supplementary Lunar Regolith Reflector,” Progress in Nuclear Energy, 51, (2009) , 93-108.

• Pham, T. T, M. S. El-Genk, “Dose Estimates in a Lunar Shelter with Regolith Shielding,” Acta Astronautica, 64, (2009), 697- 713.

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Total Publications in Career:

• 380 Refereed papers, 262 Conference Proceedings full papers, 57 Conference Transactions Articles, 89Technical Reports and 6 US patents awarded, Book and 55 Book volumes, and 6 Book Chapters