Gerard F. Jones
Senior Research Scientist
Education
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, 1972
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1975
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
Experience
Dr. Jones holds a joint appointment as a Senior Research Scientist at MR&D and a full Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Villanova University. Before joining MR&D, he was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, numerical methods, and computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. At Villanova University, his research interests have focused on heat transfer in advanced composite materials, heat transfer for cooling of high-power electronic components, transient natural convection, laminar and turbulent natural convection in open and partially divided enclosures, optimization of thermal systems, and matrix heat exchangers. For MR&D, Dr. Jones has designed heat pipe cooled composite radiators, embedded tube fuel-cooled CMC panels including scramjet and high heat flux nozzle ramps, brush heat exchangers for the cooling of electronics, and compact hybrid carbon composites for liquid/air heat exchangers.
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, his work included transient natural convection, analytical and numerical modeling of interzonal natural convection in buildings, heat transfer and hydrodynamics in geothermal reservoirs, and heat transfer in thermal spreaders and coldplates for cooling of electronic components for military applications.
Dr. Jones is a Fellow of ASME and is a member of the ASME K-20 Committee on Computational Heat Transfer. He has served as chairman of, and held other administrative positions in, the Philadelphia section of ASME. He has authored or co-authored of more than 65 technical publications in heat transfer and fluid mechanics and has organized and chaired several technical sessions at ASME technical conferences. He currently serves as a reviewer for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, The International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, and Cryogenics.