Raymond N. Laoulache, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Brown University, 1987
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, 1983
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, 1980

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Contact Information:

• E-Mail: rlaoulache@umassd.edu
• Phone: 508.999.8540
• Fax: 508.999.8881
• Office: Violette Building, Room 214

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Biography:

Dr. Raymond N. Laoulache has 19 years of industrial and teaching experience. He joined UMass Dartmouth in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1987, his MS and BS from Northeastern University in 1983 and 1980 respectively. His doctoral work was on the experimental measurements of flow reversal and the simulation of geothermal flows under laboratory conditions. His MS thesis was on the design of a solar collector as a generator in a Lithium-Bromide heating and cooling system.

Dr. Laoulache served as the ASME Faculty Advisor from 1990 until 1999. Under his supervision, students members of ASME embarked on two major national design competitions, the Mini-Baja Midwest Contest sponsored by SAE, and the Solar Splash sponsored by the Solar Division of ASME, and won several awards, most notably the Solar Splash World Championship won by the UMass Dartmouth ASME/IEEE chapters in 1997.

In addition to his academic duties, Dr. Laoulache serves as consultant to the industry. His consulting work includes studies on electronic packaging, materials adhesion, impact measurements of steam valves, closed loop controllers, flow of high speed gases under high pressure, and pollution control. Dr. Laoulache was a practicing engineering from 1977 until 1980. In 1987, he was a post doctoral recipient at the lightwave fiber optics laboratory at Brown University. He conducted extensive experiments on the doping of preforms with rare earth elements using the Modified Vapor Deposition Process.

Dr. Laoulache's research interests are in the areas of multiphase fluid flow. He is working on modeling multiphase fluid flow using Lagrangian particle method, and the vortex element method. In addition, Dr. Laoulache is completing a book with Dr. John Rice on "Advanced Engineering Mathematics: An Integrated Approach." to be published by John Wiley and Sons.

• Co-op Advisor


• Director of Computing in the Mechanical Engineering Department


• Senior Representative of the Student Section Committee of Region I which consists of 29 Colleges and Universities in New England and Canada -ASME.

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Areas Of Interest:

• Control systems
• Fluid mechanics
• Laser doppler anemometry
• Multiphase flow
• Parallel computing
• Thermodynamics

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