Dr. Rama S. Gorla

Professor of Aerospace Engineering

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Dr. Rama Gorla is currently employed as Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Prior to this, he worked as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Fenn Distinguished Research Professor at Cleveland State University. Professor Gorla served as the University Ombudsperson and interacted with students, faculty and staff. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toledo. His primary research areas are combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. He worked as a turbomachinery design engineer at Teledyne Continental Motors Turbine Engines (TCM-TE) in Toledo, Ohio and as a design engineer of the aerothermodynamics of rotating machinery at Chrysler Corporation in Highland Park, Michigan. He completed a research program funded by NASA Lewis Research Center in Turbine Heat Transfer. Dr. Gorla has published over 695 technical papers in refereed journals and contributed several book chapters in Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics.  He co-authored two text books: Turbomachinery published by Marcel & Dekker Company in 2003 and Advanced Differential Equations published by Studera Press in 2016. NASA, AFOSR and local industry have sponsored his research. He is the recipient of two Distinguished Faculty awards from Cleveland State University, the first for research in 1999 and the second for teaching in 2004. He was given the Teaching Excellence Award from the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education in 2004. He received the Distinguished Technical Educator Award from the Cleveland Technical Societies Council in May 2006. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research and Associate Editor of five Journals: International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Journal, Journal of MHD and Plasma Research, Journal of Mechanics of Continua and Mathematical Sciences and the Journal of Pure and Applied Physics. Professor Gorla is a Fellow of ASME.

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toledo

Awards

1. Life Fellow ASME
2. Fenn Distinguished Research Professor, 2008
3. The Distinguished Technical Educator Award from the Cleveland Technical Societies Council on May 17, 2006.
4. Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award from Cleveland State University in 2004
5. Teaching Excellence Award from the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education in 2004
6. Distinguished Faculty Research Award from Cleveland State University in 1999

Publications

1. Roy, N.C. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Natural Convection of Reacting Chemical in Square Enclosure with Circular Cylinder,” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2021.
    
2. Siddiqa, S., Rafiq, M., Begum, N., Hossain,M.A. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Nonliear Radiation Effect on Dusty Fluid Flow Near a Rotating Blunt Body,” Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Engineers (England), 2021.
    
3. Padmaja, P., Aparna, P. and Gorla, R.S.R., “An Initial Value Technique for Self-Adjoint Singularly Perturbed Two-Point Boundary Value Problems,” International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 25, 2020, pp. 106-126.
    
4. Siddiqa, S., Rafiq, M., Begum, N., Hossain, M.A. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Non-Linear Radiation Effect on Dusty Fluid Flow near a Rotating Blunt-Nosed Body,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 139, 2019.
    
5. Siddiqa, S., Begum, N., Hossain, M.A., Shoaib, M. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Radiative Heat Transfer Analysis of Non-Newtonian Dusty Casson Fluid Flow along a Complex Wavy Surface,” Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 2018.
    
6. Begum, N., Siddiqa, S., Muqaddass, N., Hossain, M.A. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Influence of Surface Radiation on Dusty Fluid along a Vertical Isothermal Wavy Wall,” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2018.
    
7. Roy, N.C., Hossain, M.A. and Gorla, R.S.R., “Effect of Streamwise Surface Temperature Variations on the Combustible Boundary-Layer Flows along Inclined Hot Surfaces,” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2018.