Prashant Singh

Biography

2022-present  
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2019-2022
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

2018-2019
Research Scholar, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC

2017-2017
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA

Education

• PhD, 2017, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA

Research

Advanced heat and fluid flow diagnostics for thermal management in applications requiring high heat flux dissipation, porous media heat transfer for electronics cooling, particle flows through porous media for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) applications, thermal energy storage, additive manufacturing, thermal energy conversion and storage, micro- and nano-scale heat transfer.

Professional Service

• Chair of ASME K-10 committee on Heat Transfer Equipment
• Member of ASME K-14 committee on Gas Turbine Heat Transfer
• Member of ASME
• Proposal reviewer for NASA, DOE, NSF.
• Book proposal reviewer: Taylor & Francis, Elsevier.
• Reviewer for over 40+ international journals in thermal science, which includes:
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (outstanding reviewer recognition)
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
  • ASME Journal of Turbomachinery
  • ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
  • AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Awards and Recognitions

• 2025 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer
• 2025 “The Momentum” Faculty Award by MABE department, UTK: in recognition of outstanding trajectory of scholarly accomplishments and excellence in teaching
• 2021 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
• 2021 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, Mechanical Engineering Dept., MSU.
• 2020 MSU Mechanical Engineering Faculty Support Fund for Excellence in Research
• 2017 ASME Warren M. Rohsenow Award, K-14 committee on Gas Turbine Heat Transfer.
• 2015 New Horizon Fellowship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
• 2013 Darryl E. Metzger Memorial Fellowship, Arizona State University.

Publications

The list below features ten journal articles selected from recent publications. Graduate students directly supervised by Singh are italicized. See a full list of publications. 

• Aider, Y., Singh, P., 2025, “Experimental study on flow and thermal transport characteristics of moving packed bed through a channel featuring single column of inline cylindrical pins”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Vol. 236, pp.126286.
• Nithyanandam, K., and Singh, P., 2023, “Transient Thermal Performance of Phase-Change Material Infused in Cellular Materials Based on Different Unit Cell Topologies.” ASME. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 146(1), pp.011002.
• Kaur, I., Singh, P., 2023, “Effects of inherent surface roughness of additively manufactured lattice frame material on flow and thermal transport”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 209, pp.124077.
• Singh, P., Aider, Y., Kaur, I., 2023, “Swirl Jet Impingement Heat Transfer: Effect of Jet-to-Target Spacing, Jet Reynolds Number and Orientation with Flat Target”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 184, pp.107993.
• Kaur, I., Mahajan, R.L., Singh, P., 2023, “Generalized correlation for effective thermal conductivity of high porosity architectured materials and metal foams”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 200, pp.123512.
• Singh, P., 2022, “Effects of jet-to-target spacing on primary and secondary peak heat transfer for an obliquely impinging jet”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 191, p.122831.
• Kaur, I., Aider, Y., Nithyanandam, K. and Singh, P., 2022, “Thermal-hydraulic performance of additively manufactured lattices for gas turbine blade trailing edge cooling”, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 211, p.118461.
• Kaur, I. and Singh, P., 2022, “Conjugate heat transfer in lattice frame materials based on novel unit cell topologies”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Vol. 82(12), pp.788-801.
• Aider, Y., Kaur, I., Cho, H. and Singh, P., 2022, “Periodic heat transfer characteristics of additively manufactured lattices”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 189, p.122692.
• Kaur, I. and Singh, P., 2021, “Flow and thermal transport characteristics of Triply-Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS)-based gyroid and Schwarz-P cellular materials”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Vol. 79(8), pp.553-569.