Rate My Professor Vijay Dhir

Throughout his career, Dhir has specialized in two-phase heat transfer, boiling and condensation, thermal and hydrodynamic stability, thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors, microgravity heat transfer, and soil remediation. He directs the Boiling Heat Transfer Lab and was principal investigator for NASA's Boiling eXperiment Facility - Nucleate Pool Boiling eXperiment (BXF-NPBX) aboard the International Space Station. His pioneering research earned election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for contributions to boiling heat transfer and nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety. Additional accolades include fellow of the American Nuclear Society, honorary membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2013, the Max Jakob Memorial Award in 2004, ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award, ANS Thermal Hydraulics Division Technical Achievement Award, the 2013 John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award, and election to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2024. Notable publications encompass the book Phase Change Heat Transfer (2025) and influential papers like “Boiling Heat Transfer” in Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics (1998). Dhir's scholarship has profoundly shaped heat transfer fundamentals and applications in nuclear and space technologies.