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Arvind Atreya
 Arvind Atreya MMPEI Faculty Fellow |
Dr. Atreya got his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) in 1975 and his M.S. & Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 1978 and 1983 respectively. He started working in the Center for Fire Research at NIST and then as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MSU. Dr. Atreya joined UM in 1993 as an Associate Professor. He is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the DOE Industrial Energy and Environmental Center. He has advised 22 PhD and 15 MS students and is an author of 54 refereed journal articles, two patents, 121 conference articles, and numerous government and industrial reports. He has taught and teaches nearly all the Combustion, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer graduate and undergraduate courses at Michigan.
Dr. Atreya is a fellow of ASME and a recipient of several awards, including: The NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award; DOE Service Award (twice) from the Office of Industrial Technologies; CoE Excellence in Service Award; ME Research Excellence Award; Distinguished Paper Award in the 31st International Symposium on Combustion; ASME Best Paper Award in the National Heat Transfer Conference; and the Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence from the International Association for Fire Safety Science. He has been an invited speaker for: The Emmons Symposium on Fire Research; The Symposium on Reactive Flow and Transport, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota; NIST Workshop on Fire Growth and Spread on Objects; NRC/NAS/NSF Workshop to Identify Innovative Research Needs to Improve Fire Safety; International Workshop on CHEMKIN in Combustion on Soot Modeling; 26th World Energy Engineering Congress; TMS 2006 Annual Meeting session on Industrial Furnaces; and the IHEA-DOE Industrial Heating Equipment of the Future Conference. He has also been an invited colloquium speaker at Harvard University, Rutgers University, and University of Michigan. Dr. Atreya has served on several external and internal committees.
Dr. Atreya’s research area is combustion, fire, and energy & environment. He has worked on numerous combustion and environmental problems for DOE and industry and several fire growth and suppression problems for NASA and the NIST Center for Fire Research. He has worked on combustion problems for large steel industry (Mittal, Nucor, US Steel, etc.), the aluminum industry (Alcoa, Norandal, Logan Aluminum, etc.) and the cement industry (Holcim). This work has led to patents and millions of dollars in savings for the industries. He has also helped more than 350 small and medium sized industries reduce their energy usage and their environmental footprint. In the fire research area he is well-known for his work on ignition and fire growth over charring materials. He has developed exact solutions of the non-linear PDE’s governing fire spread over charring materials. This work was recognized by the Distinguished Paper award from the Combustion Institute and the Best Paper from ASME. For his work on ignition he was awarded a Silver Medal from the International Association for Fire Safety Science.
Dr. Atreya is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.