Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Education    

New York University, PhD 1967   
New York University, MME 1960
Newark College of Engineering, BS 1959

Current Research Interests    

Thermo-fluid systems, investigation of multi-component fluid flow, turbulent heat transfer from roughened surfaces, aircraft icing, natural convection heat transfer. Numerical studies of three dimensional natural convection from semi-enclosed irregular geometry, of conjugate heat transfer problems using hybrid numerical schemes, and of flow fields in industrial type geometries.

Selected Publications    

P. J. Florio and S. Dikmenli, "Two Domain Heat Transfer Studies Using a Coupled Finite Difference and Boundary Element Program," Proceedings of Third International Conference on CAD/CAM, August 1988.   

P. J. Florio, "The Introduction of CAG and CAE to Sophomore M. E. Students."  Proceedings of the National Conference on University Programs in Computer aided Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing. August 1984.   

P. J. Florio, An Interactive Perspective View program", Mechanical Engineering News, Vol. 21, February 1984.   

P. J. Florio, "The Use of Interactive Computer Programs in The Applied Thermodynamics Course."