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 Publications

1. Lange, Richard J., Rita J. Schnipke, and James G. Rice, “On Thermal Stratification and Migration in Pipe Flow,” ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November 1990.

2. Schnipke, Rita J., James D, Hayword, and James G. Rice, “A Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis for Evaluating The effectiveness of an IC Package Heat Sink,” Proceedings: Fifth IEEE Semiconductor Thermal and Temperature Measurement Symposium, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1989

3.  Jones, John H., Rita J. Schnipke, and James G. Rice, “FLOW-2D: A Two Dimensional Finite Element Free and Forced Convection PC Computer Code,” ASME Paper No. WA/FE, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, November, 1988.

4. Bulsaro, A. B., M. K. Orazem, and James G. Rice, “The Influence of Axial Diffusion on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in a Horizontal CVD Reactor,” Journal of Crystal Growth, 1988.

5. Rice, James G., Rita J. Schnipke, D. Kim Cornelius, and Michael D. Normansell, “Navier-Stokes Computation of a Typical High-Lift Airfoil System,” Science and Engineering on Cray Supercomputers, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 1988.

6. Farnsworth, D. A., and James G. Rice, “Improved Solution Methods for Strongly Coupled Thermal/Hydraulic Analysis,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 102, 1987.

7. Schnipke, R. J. and James G. Rice, “Finite Element Analysis of Forced and Natural Convection Heat Transfer,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 24, p. 117-128 (1987).

8. Rice, James G., and R. J. Schnipke, “An Equal Order Pressure Solution Method that Does Not Exhibit Spurious Pressure Modes,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, No. 58 (1986), p. 135.

9. Schnipke, R. J., James G. Rice, and R. D. Flack, “Finite Element Analysis of Viscous Flow in a Vaned Radial Diffuser,” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 1986.

10. Brownell, R. B., R. D. Flack, M. C. Davis, and James G. Rice, “Finite Element Analysis of Viscous Flow in a Vaned Radial Diffuser,” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 1986.

11. Rosen, M. C., P. E. Allaire, and James G. Rice, “Penalty Function Finite Element Analysis of Steady Incompressible Flow in Rotating Coordinates,” ASME Paper No. 84-GT-36, ASME International Gas Turbine Conference, Belgium, 1984

12. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “A Stable Three Dimensional Streamline Upwind Scheme,” Proceedings: 12th Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and applied Mechanics, Pine Mountain, Georgia, 1984

13. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “Three Dimensional Transient and Steady State Calculations for Pressurized Thermal Shock Mixing Experiments,” Multi-Dimensional Fluid Transients, ASME Book No. G00273, 1984.

14. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “An Improved Multi-Dimensional Finite Difference Scheme for Predicting Horizontal Pipe Flow,” Nuclear Technology, Vol. 65, No. 3 (1984), p. 454

15. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “Reduction of Numerical Diffusion Errors in Thermal Mixing Problems,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 45, November 1983.

16. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “Cause and Cure of Stability Problems in the Skew Upwind Differencing Scheme,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 45, November 1983.

17. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “A New Scheme for Predicting Three Dimensional Temperatures in the Pressurized Thermal Shock Problem,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 46, June 1984.

18. Schnipke, R. J. and James G. Rice, “Application of a New finite Element Method to Convection Heat Transfer,” Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Thermal Problems, Pineridge Press, 1985

19. Rice, James G.  and R. J. Schnipke, “An Efficient Finite Element Method for the Analysis of Viscous Fluid Flow ,” Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Laminar and Turbulent Flows, Pineridge Press, 1985

20. Rice, James G. and R. J. Schnipke, “A Monotone Streamline Upwind Finite Element Method for Convection Dominated Flows,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, No. 48 (1985), p. 313.

21. Allaire, P. E., M. C. Rosen, and James G. Rice, “Finite Element Analysis of Viscous Incompressible Flow with a Penalty Function Formulation,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1985).

22. Schnipke, R. J. and James G. Rice, “Examination of a New Finite Element Method Applied to Convection Heat Transfer,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1985).

23. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “Predictions of Horizontal Stratified Pipe Flow,” ASME Paper No. 83-WA/HT-41, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 1983.

24. Hassan, Y. A., James G. Rice, and J. H. Kim, “A Stable Mass-Flow Weighted Two Dimensional Skew Upwind Scheme,”  Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1983),  p. 153.

25. Rice, James G., Hassan, Y. A. and J. H. Kim, “Comparison of Measured and Predicted Thermal Mixing Tests Using Improved Finite Difference Techniques,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol.76, No 2, 1983, p. 153.

26. Rice, James G., “Are Our Thermal Science Courses Up to Date,” Proceedings of the 1982 ASEE Conference, Texas A&M University, 1982.

27. Sharma, M. P., James G. Rice, D. K. Cornelius, and  D. R. Dougan, “Numerical Computation of Swirling Gas-Particle Flows: Application to Pulverized Coal Classifiers,” Paper No. 80-WA/HT-31, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, July 1980.

28. Overjohn, W. A.,  S. V. Patankar, and James G. Rice, “THEDA: A Three Dimensional Analysis for Once-through Nuclear Steam Generators,” Chemical Engineering Progress Symposium Series, 19th National Heat Transfer Conference, 1979.

29. Rice, James G.,  “Experimental and Predicted Performance for the Combustion of a Low Heating Value Gas in a Swirl Burner,” PhD Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, September, 1978.

30. Rice, James G.,  J. R. Grant, and W. C. Thomas,  “An Experimental Study of Combustion of a Low Heating Value Gas in a Swirl Burner,” Combustion Institute, Central States Section, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, March, 1977.

31. Rice, James G., “The Modeling of Nitric Oxide Formation in a Swirl Burner with Flue Gas Recirculation,” Masters Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, September, 1973.