Mohamed (Bill) M. El-Wakil Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Additional Experience Summary

Contact Information

316 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-3495 E-mail: el-wakil@engr.wisc.edu

Departments

• Mechanical Engineering
• Engineering Physics

Education

• PhD 1949, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of Interest

• heat and mass transfer
• power plant systems
• nuclear reactor thermal design
• nuclear energy conversion

Additional Experience

University of Alexandria, University if Minnesota, Chairman of Engineering and Computer Science at the American University in Cairo, Egypt

Summary

Professor El-Wakil is an experimental mechanical engineer specializing in research such as natural convection in enclosures and within porous bodies as well as multiphase flow and heat transfer. This work has focused on problems in reactor engineering and nuclear reactor safety. In addition, El-Wakil is a prolific author having written many well-known and widely used textbooks.