{"id":238,"date":"2025-05-07T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:37:38","slug":"kenneth-d-kihm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/faculty\/kenneth-d-kihm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth D. Kihm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small)\">Kenneth D. Kihm<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0\"><em><em>Professor<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-columns-reverse alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading orange-mark\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2004\u2013present<br><\/strong>Magnavox Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2001\u20132004<br><\/strong>Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1994\u20132001<br><\/strong>Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1989\u20131994<br><\/strong>Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1987\u20131988<br><\/strong>Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PhD, 1987, Stanford University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MSME, 1981, Seoul National University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BSME, 1979, Seoul National University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hypersonic cooling management using liquid-metal heat pipes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Micro\/nano-scale near-field optical characterization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermoelectric characterization of nano-structured graphene<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of 2-d structures (graphene)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liquid metal transport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nanofluidic transport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neutron imaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raman spectroscopy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ASME Fellow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair of ASME K-22 Visualization Technical Committee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Editor for Experiments in Fluids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Editor for Journal of Heat Transfer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chief Editor for Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Board Member of International Flow Visualization Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Recognitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exxon Mobil Professor Award, 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEES Fellow Award, Texas A&amp;M 2001<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Association of Former Students Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&amp;M 1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Y. Heo,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>&nbsp;and J. S. Lee, &#8220;Fabrication and Experiment of Micro-Pin-Finned Microchannels to Study Surface Roughness Effects on Convective Heat Transfer,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering<\/em>, Vol. 24, 125025, December 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H. J. Yi, J. Tipton,&nbsp;<strong>D. Kihm<\/strong>, D. M. Pratt, A. D. Swanson and S. Rawal, \u201cEffect of Disjoining Pressure (\u03a0) on Multi-Scale Modeling for Evaporative Liquid Metal (Na) Capillary\u201d&nbsp;<em>Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer<\/em>, Vol. 78, pp. 137-149, November 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Cheon,&nbsp;<strong>K. Kihm<\/strong>, H. Kim, G. Lim, J. S. Park and J. S. Lee, &#8220;How to Reliably Determine the Complex Refractive Index (RI) of Graphene Layers Using Two Measurement Constraints,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Nature Scientific Reports<\/em>&nbsp;6364, doi:10.1038\/srep06364, September 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yoon, G. Hwang, J. Chung, H. Kim, O. Kwon,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, and J. S. Lee, \u201cMeasuring the Thermal Conductivity of Residue-Free Suspended graphene Bridge Using Null Point Scanning Thermal Microscopy,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Carbon<\/em>, Vol. 76, pp. 77-83, September 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>D. Kihm<\/strong>, B. Hight, E. Kirchoff, H. Yi, J. Rosenfeld, S. Rawal, D. Hussey, D. Jacobson, H. Bilheux, L. Walker, S. Voisin, D. Pratt, and A. Swanson, \u201cNeutron Tomography of Lithium (Li) Coolant inside a Niobium (Nb) Heat Pipe,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Heat Transfer<\/em>-Photogallery, Vol.136, No. 8, HT-14-1201, August 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Park,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, H. Kim, G. Lim, S. Cheon and J. S. Lee, &#8220;Wetting and Evaporative Crystallization of Nanofluids on CVD-Synthesized Hydrophobic Graphene Surfaces,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Langmuir<\/em>, Vol. 30, issue 28, pp. 8268-8275, July 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>J. L. Liggett, C. K. Choi, R. L. Donnell,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm,&nbsp;<\/strong>J.-S. Kim, A. A. Noegel and S. J. Baek, \u201cNonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Sulindac Sulfide Suppresses Structural Protein Nesprin-2 Expression in Colorectal Cancer Cells,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Biochimica et Biophysica Acta &#8211; General Subjects<\/em>&nbsp;1840, pp. 322-331, Sept. 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H.J. Yi, I. T. Kim, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cDryout Patterns of Nanofluids (47nm, Al<sub>2<\/sub>O<sub>3<\/sub>),\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Heat Transfer<\/em>-Photogallery, Vol. 135, No. 8, 080910, August 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I.T. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cProgressive Dryout of Nanofluids on the Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Surfaces,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Heat Transfer<\/em>-Photogallery, Vol. 135, No. 8, 080911, August 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kirchoff,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, J. Rosenfeld, S. Rawal, H. Bilheux, L. Walker, S. Voisin, D. Pratt, and A. Swanson, \u201cNeutron Tomography of Lithium (Li) Menisci inside a Molybdenum (Mo) Heat Pipe,&nbsp;<em>Journal of Heat Transfer<\/em>-Photogallery, Vol. 135, No. 8, 080902, August 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K. Kihm<\/strong>, E. Kirchoff, M. Golden, J. Rosenfeld, S. Rawal, D. Pratt, A. Swanson, H. Bilheux, L. Walker, S. Voisin, D. S. Hussey, and D. L. Jacobson, \u201cNeutron Imaging of Alkali Metal Heat Pipes,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Physics Procedia<\/em>, Vol. 43, pp. 323-330, March 2013.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, S. Cheon, J. S. Park, H. J. Kim, J. S. Lee, I. T. Kim, and H. J. Yi, \u201cSurface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Reflectance Imaging: Far-field Recognition of Near-Field Phenomena,\u201d Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 64-73, January 2012.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, C. H. Chon, J. S. Lee and S. U. S. Choi, \u201cA New Heat Propagation Velocity Prevails over Brownian Particle Velocities in Determining the Thermal Conductivities of Nanofluids,\u201d Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol 6, No. 361, April 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. H. Margraves,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, S. Y. Yoon, C. K. Choi, S. H. Lee, J. L. Liggett, and S. J. Baek, \u201cSimultaneous Measurements of Cytoplasmic Viscosity and Intracellular Vesicle Sizes for Live Human Brain Cancer Cells,\u201d Biotechnology and Bioengineering Vol. 108, No. 10, pp. 2506-2508, April 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Y. Yoon,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, and K. C. Kim, \u201cCorrelation of Fluid Refractive Index (RI) with Calibration Coefficient for Micro-Defocusing Digital particle Image Velocimetry (\u03bc-DDPIV),\u201d Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 22, 037001, January 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I. T. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cMeasuring Near-Field Nanoparticle Concentration Profiles by Correlating Surface Plasmon Resonance Reflectance with Effective Refractive Index of Nanofluids,\u201d Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 393-395, February 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cNear-Field Fluidic Characterization Using a Label-Free Imaging Technique Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Reflectance,\u201d Experiments in Fluids Vol. 48, No. 4, pp.547-564, April 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>J. S. Park,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, and J. S. Lee, \u201cNonintrusive Measurements of Mixture Concentration Fields by Analyzing Diffraction Image Patterns (Point Spread Function) of Nanoparticles,\u201d Experiments in Fluids Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 183-191, July 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Kim, T. G. Thundat, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cFluidic Applications of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Its Microcantilever Sensors,\u201d Experiments in Fluid Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 721-736, May 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I. T. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cUnveiling Hidden Complex Cavities Formed during Nanocrystalline Self Assembly,\u201d Langmuir Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 1881-1884, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. H. Kim, A. E. English, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cSurface Elasticity and Charge Concentration-Dependent Endothelial Cell Attachment to Copolymer Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel,\u201d Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 144-151, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>J. B. Tipton, Jr.,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, and D. M. Pratt, \u201cModeling Alkaline Liquid Metal (Na) Evaporating Thin Films Using Both Retarded Dispersion and Electronic Force Components,\u201d Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 131, Issue 12, 121015-9, 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. K. Choi, C. H. Margraves, A. E. English, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cMulticontrast Microscopy Technique to Dynamically Fingerprint Live-Cell Focal Contacts during Exposure and Replacement of a Cytotoxic Medium,\u201d Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 13, No. 5, 054069, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. K. Choi, C. Margraves, Seung I. Jun, A. E. English, Philip D. Rack, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cOpto-Electric Cellular Biosensor Using Optically Transparent Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Electrodes,\u201d Sensors, Vol. 8, pp. 3257-3270, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. H. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cEffect of Adsorption-Induced Surface Stress Change on the Stiffness of a Microcantilever Used as a Salinity Detection Sensor,\u201d Applied Physics Letters 93, 081911, 2008.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I. T. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cReal-Time and Full-Field Detection of Near-Wall Salinity Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Reflectance,\u201d Analytical Chemistry 79, pp. 5418-5423, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. K. Choi, A. E. English, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cOptoelectric Biosensor Using Indium-Tin-Oxide Electrodes,\u201d Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 1405-1407, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. H. Chon, S. W. Paik, J. Tipton, and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cEffect of Nanoparticle Sizes and Number Densities on the Evaporation and Dryout Characteristics for Strongly Pinned Nanofluid Droplets,\u201d Langmuir 23, No. 6, pp. 2953-2960, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C. K. Choi, A. E. English, S.-I. Jun,&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, and P. D. Rack, \u201cAn Endothelial Cell Compatible Biosensor Fabricated Using Optically Thin Indium Tin Oxide Silicon Nitride Electrodes,\u201d Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 2585-2590, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. Kim and&nbsp;<strong>K. D. Kihm<\/strong>, \u201cTemperature Dependence of the Near-Wall Oscillation of Microcantilevers Submerged in Liquid Environment,\u201d Applied Physics Letters 90, 081908, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pull-right is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull utkwds-stack-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dbf27b9b wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column utkwds-stack has-light-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-146c2e40 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Kenneth-Kihm.jpg\" alt=\"Kenneth Kihm\" class=\"wp-image-295\" style=\"border-bottom-color:var(--wp--preset--color--orange);border-bottom-width:5px;aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Kenneth-Kihm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Kenneth-Kihm-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4c0ddf3a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>233 Dougherty Engineering Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone<\/strong><br>865-974-5292<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<br><\/strong><a href=\"mailto:kkihm@utk.edu\">kkihm@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minsfet.utk.edu\/\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth D. 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