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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) : Member

ASME : Chairman, Fluids Engineering Division, 2005 - 2007

American Society of Engineering Education : Member

American Physical Society : Member

Texas Board of Professional Engineers : Member

Transition to Renewable Energy for Communities: Energy Storage Requirements and Dissipation

Making Texas green

The transient equation of motion for particles, bubbles, and droplets

Proteus: a direct forcing method in the simulations of particulate flows

The immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for solving fluid–particles interaction problems

Drag coefficients of irregularly shaped particles

Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Alternative Energy Sources (Green Energy and Technology)

Exergy Analysis for Energy Conversion Systems

Particles, Bubbles And Drops: Their Motion, Heat And Mass Transfer

Professor Stathis Michaelides is currently the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University (TCU). Prior to this he was chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he also held the Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering and was the Founder and Director of the NSF-supported Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing (SiViRT).  In the past he was the Founding Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the University of North Texas (2006-2007); the Leo S.Weil Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University (1998-2007); Director of the South-Central Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (2002-2007); Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the School of Engineering at Tulane University (1992-2003); Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tulane (1990-1992).  Between 1980 and 1989 he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware, where he also served as Acting Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department (1985-1987).

Professor Michaelides holds a B.A. degree (honors) from Oxford University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University. He was awarded an honorary M.A. degree from Oxford University (1983); the Casberg and Schillizzi Scholarships at St. Johns College, Oxford; the student chapter ASME/Phi,Beta,Tau excellence in teaching award (1991 and 2001); the Lee H. Johnson award for teaching excellence (1995); a Senior Fulbright Fellowship (1997); the ASME Freeman Scholar award (2002); the Outstanding Researcher award at Tulane (2003); the ASME Outstanding Service award (2007); the ASME Fluids engineering award (2014); and the ASME 90th Anniversary of FED Medal, 2016.

Professor Michaelides was a member of the executive committee of the Fluids Engineering Division of the ASME (2002-08) and served as chair of the Division in 2005-2006. Prior to this he has served as chair (1996-1998) of the Multiphase Flow Technical Committee. He served as the President of the ASEE Gulf-South Region (1992-93). He chaired the 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flows (New Orleans May 27 to June 1, 2001) and was the vice-chair of the 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flows, (Yokohama, Japan May 2004).  He has published more than 140 journal papers and has contributed more than 240 papers and presentations in national and international conferences.

Multiphase Flow

Nanofluids

Alternative Energy

Fossil Fuels

Geothermal Energy

Particulate Heat Transfer

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W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Founding Chair of Engineering

Hosted by the Ralph Lowe Energy Institute at the TCU Neeley School of Business

Michael Slattery, PhD, TCU College of Science & Engineering; Bill Fehrman, Berkshire Hathaway Energy; Efstathios Michaelides, PhD, TCU College of Science & Engineering; and David Braun, Transparent Energy

As part of the Kenneth W. Davis, Jr. Leaders in Energy Speaker Series, the TCU Global Energy Symposium is a thought leadership event, focusing on cutting-edge research, emerging technologies and innovative solutions, to help deepen our understanding of the evolving energy economy.

Sustainable Energy Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges – 2022 TCU Global Energy Symposium

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