Sabau

Adrian S. Sabau, Ph.D., Fellow ASME, Fellow ASM
	Computational Materials Scientist Multiscale Materials Group Computational Sciences & Engineering Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bldg. 5700, MS6085 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6085 Phone: (865) 241-5145 Fax: (865) 574-4357	List of Publications by Research Topics Representative Results by Research Topics Edited Books Leadership/Personal/Professional Development Long CV (pdf) Researchgate , ORCID

Education

M.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science and Materials Processing), University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Awards

ASM Fellow (2022)
UT-Battelle Award, Research Accomplishment in Science and Technology, Shyam A. (PI), Shin D., Allard L., Yamamoto Y., Haynes J.A., Watkins T., Sabau A., Porter W., Hawkins C., McClurg D. 2018.
ORNL/PSD Significant Event Award, Testing of Solar Probe Cup for NASA's Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft using the Plasma-Arc Lamp, A.S. Sabau (PI), B. Friske, T. Muth, J. Kiggans, D. Balltrip, D. Moore, G. Ulrich, G. Cox, N. Gallego, Oct., 2018.
R&D 100 Magazine, R&D 100 Award, ACMZ Cast Aluminum Alloys, Shyam A., Haynes J.A., Yamamoto Y., Shin D., Sabau A., Allard L., Watkins T., Porter W., Morris J., Roy S., Maziasz P., McClurg D., Hawkins C., Shower P., and Milligan B (and collaborators from Fiat Chrysler Automobile USA and Nemak USA) 2017.
ASME Fellow (2016)
UT-Battelle Technology Commercialization Award (2014)
ORNL Significant Event Award for Development and Demonstration of a High-Heat Flux Testing Facility for Neutron-Irradiated Materials, Team lead by PI A.S. Sabau (2013).
2013 National FLC Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for Pulse Thermal Processing technology, Chad Duty, Craig Blue, Art Clemons, Nancy Dudney, David Harper, Ron Ott, John Rivard, Adrian Sabau, Alex DeTrana (ORNL) and Stan Farnsworth, Kurt Schroder, and Charlie Munson (NovaCentrix).
2011 R&D 100 Award in Process Sciences, CermaCladTM: Rapid Metal Coating Process, MesoCoat Inc., (Sherman A.J., Engleman G.), ORNL (Blue C., Clemos, A., Dudney, N., Duty, C., Harper D., Ott R., Rivard, J., Sabau A., Sikka V.), EMTEC (Martin M.)
R&D 100 Award in Process Sciences, PulseForgeTM 3100 with Pulse Thermal Processing; NovaCentrix, Inc. (Schroder K., Jackson D., McCool S., Pope D., Kierzyk T., Lind D., Rawson I., Sommers R.) and ORNL (Blue C., Clemons, A., Dudney, N., Duty, C., Harper D., Ott R., Rivard, J., Sabau A.), 2009.
The Frederick E. Terman Award for academic achievement, Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 3.96 GPA, 1994-1995.
National Merit Scholarship, University of Craiova, Romania, 9.92/10 GPA, 1989-1992.
Honorable Mentions at the Romanian National Mathematics Olympiad (two times during high school).

Patents, Patent Applications, and Software Copyrights

A.S. Sabau, C.D. Warren, C. Daniel, J. Chen, D.L. III Erdman, Laser nanostructured surface preparation for joining materials, U.S. Patent No. 11,493,070 B2 issued on 11/08/2022.
A.S. Sabau, J.W. Klett, and Y. Polsky, Multi-zone Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger, U.S. Patent No. 11,353,266 B2 06/07/2022.
A.S. Sabau, J. Li, H. Meyer III, C. Daniel, Laser-Interference Surface Preparation for Enhanced Coating Adhesion, U.S. Patent No. 11,065,719 07/20/2021.
A. Shyam, Y. Yamamoto, D. Shin, J.A. Haynes, P.J. Maziasz , A.S. Sabau, S. Roy, A.F. Rodriguez-Jasso, J.A. Gonzalez-Villarreal, J. Talamantes-Silva, L. Zhang, C.R. Glaspie, S. Mirmiran, Aluminum Alloy Compositions and Methods of Making and Using the Same, Patent No. US 11,242,587 B2, 02/08/2022.
A. Shyam, Y. Yamamoto, D. Shin, J.A. Haynes, P.J. Maziasz , A.S. Sabau, S. Roy, A.F. Rodriguez-Jasso, J.A. Gonzalez-Villarreal, J. Talamantes-Silva, L. Zhang, C.R. Glaspie, S. Mirmiran, Aluminum Alloy Compositions and Methods of Making and Using the Same, Patent No. US 11,220,729, 01/11/2022.
A.S. Sabau and I.G. Wright, SpallMap, UT-Battelle Open Source Copyright 80000028, SPALLMAP source code, Copyright 2018 UT-Battelle LLC. All rights reserved, Filed 3/22/2018, Approved 4/13/2018.
A.S. Sabau and I.G. Wright, SpallMap, UT-Battelle Open Source Copyright 80000027, SPALLOOP source code, Copyright 2018 UT-Battelle LLC. All rights reserved, Filed 3/22/2018, Approved 4/13/2018.
A.S.Sabau, C.D. Warren, C. Daniel, J. Chen, D.L. III Erdman, Laser Nanostructured Surface Preparation for Joining Dissimilar Materials, U.S. Patent No. 10,082,166 B2, 09/25/2018.
Ivan V. Vlassiouk, William H. Peter, Adrian S. Sabau, Sheng Dai, Pasquale Fulvio, Ilia N. Ivanov, and Nickolay V. Lavrik, High Quality Large Scale Single and Multilayer Graphene Production by Chemical Vapor Deposition, U.S. Patent No. 10,023,468 07/17/2018.
D.J. King, S. Babinec, P.L. Hagans, L.C. Maxey, E.A. Payzant, C. Daniel, A.S. Sabau, R.B. Dinwiddie, B.L. Armstrong, J.Y. Howe, D.L. Wood III, N.S. Nembhard, Characterization of dielectric materials, U.S. Patent No. US9689822 B2 14/602,370 06/27/2017.
B.L. Armstrong, C. Daniel, J.Y. Howe, J.O. Kiggans, Jr., A.S. Sabau, D.L. Wood, III, and S. Kalnaus, Method and apparatus for in-situ drying investigation and optimization of slurry drying methodology, U.S. Patent No. 9,337,470 05/10/2016.

ORNL Senior R&D Staff Member

High-Performance Computing for Additive Manufacturing using Truchas open-source code and µMatIC cellular-automata open-source code on OLCF Summit)
Additive Manufacturing (process microstructure simulation, component optimization);
Pioneered the use of laser-interference processing for multi-material joining and coating applications.
Laser Processing (laser interference-structuring of Al, Carbon Fiber Polymer Composites, Ti6Al4V);
High-heat flux testing for Solar Probe Cup for NASAs Parker Solar Probe Spacecraft using water-wall Plasma Arc Lamps (PAL). NASAs Parker Solar Probe Mission
Materials behavior under high-heat flux (irradiated materials for fusion energy); Developed a high-heat flux testing facility using water-wall Plasma Arc Lamps (PAL) for neutron-irradiated specimens.
Geothermal Energy (component design and optimization);
Materials behavior under severe environments (Land-based Turbines, Supercritical Boiler Tubes, Supercritical CO2);
Energy Transport; Radiation Transport in Semitransparent Media;

ORNL R&D Staff Member: Solidification and Deformation Phenomena in Materials Processing

Postgraduate Expertize: Microporosity during solidification casting, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Parallel Programming

Ph.D. (Ph.D. Academic Advisor Dr. Peter E. Raad): Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Lubrication Bioengineering

M.Sc.: Fluid Mechanics and Dynamics

Expertise:

Solution algorithms, software development, and programming experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Solidification, and Radiation Transport using FORTRAN 90 and C.
ABAQUS, PROCAST, Truchas (Telluride, RIPPLE), FLUENT, CFX, and LabView.
Experiment design, data acquisition, and data processing techniques.
Solid background in solid mechanics and stress analysis.

External University Collaborators

Dr. Adrian Bejan, Duke University, NC.
Dr. George Dulikravich, Florida International University, FL.
Dr. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Yoshio Ueda, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Kazutoshi Tokunaga, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Dr. Kivanc Ekici, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Dr. Yogi Goswami, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Dr. Kozo Saito, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Dr. Narendra B. Dahotre, University of North Texas, Denton, TX (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) (2005-2006).
Dr. Jay Frankel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/2001-10/2004).

Post-Doctoral Collaborators

John D.K. Rivard (2004-2005), Christian Shaffer (2010-2011), Hebi Yin (2010-2012), Sergiy Kalnaus (2010-2012), Raghavan Narendran UTK (2017-2018).

PhD Candidate Students

John D.K. Rivard (2001-2003), Anoop Samant, UTK (2005-2006), William Sames (2013-2013), Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, Raghavan Narendran UTK (2013-2014), Seth Pemberton UTK (2013), Ali Nejad UTK (2015-2018).

Intern Students

Puja B. Kadolkar, Zhuoxi Wu, Alexandra Hackett (2013), Ali Nejad (2016-2018).

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Adrian Sabau