Did you know that our Umesh, has a vast body of work attached to his name on the Net? On searching the Net/googling his name, one is presented with the following links. Now we know what he's been upto since we parted.
Please click on the following links to view the pages on the Net.
The following is also to be included in the body of his work. Unfortunately, the documents are not on the Net. One has to go to a library and photocopy the scientific content. Got the following documents, though! Click on them to view a larger picture.
UMESH'S JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
Karnik, U., 1994, "MEASUREMENTS OF THE TURBULENCE STRUCTURE DOWNSTREAM OF A TUBE BUNDLE AT HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBERS", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of ASME.Vol 116. No.4, pp 848-855.
Karnik, U., Jungowski, W.M. and Botros, K.K., 1994, "EFFECT OF TURBULENCE ON ORIFICE METER PERFORMANCE", Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME, Vol 116, pp 77-85.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1990, 'LAGRANGIAN CORRELATIONS AND SCALES IN UNIFORMLY SHEARED TURBULENCE", Phys. Fluids A 2 (4).
Tavoularis, S. and Karnik, U., 1989, "FURTHER EXPERIMENTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF TURBULENT STRESSES AND SCALES IN UNIFORMLY SHEARED TURBULENCE", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 204, 457.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1989, "MEASUREMENTS OF HEAT DIFFUSION FROM A CONTINUOUS LINE SOURCE IN A UNIFORMLY SHEARED FLOW", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 202, 233.
Tavoularis, S., Stapountzis, H. and Karnik, U., 1987, "VORTEX SHEDDING FROM BLUFF CYLINDERS IN STRONGLY SHEARED FLOWS", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Applications, 26, 165.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1987, "GENERATION AND MANIPULATION OF UNIFORM SHEAR WITH THE USE OF SCREENS, ", Experiments in Fluids, 5, 247.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Umesh Karnik, Leigh Wardhaugh, Darwin Kiel, Mike .de Boer and George Zboril, 2001, "Pressure drop behaviour of static mixers in gas-liquid flow", Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Halifax, Canada.
Patent on cold reactor design for Advanced SclairTech.
Karnik, U. and Geerligs, J., 2002, "Effect of upstream step and pipe roughness on multi-path ultrasonic meters", 5th International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, Washington D.C., 2002.
Karnik, U. and Geerligs, J., 2001, "Effect of pulsation and liquid contaminants on Micro-Motion Coriolis mass flow meter, Flow Measurement International Conference, Peebles, Scotland.
Karnik,U., Bowles, E., and Sloet, G., 2000, "Maintaining Measurement Facility Integrity: Efforts in Canada, USA and The Netherlands", ASME Fluids Engineering Meeting, Boston, USA.
Karnik, U. and Flegel, D., 2000, Centaur round robin test Traceability of Transcanada Calibrations Facility, FLOMEKO, Brazil.
Karnik, U., Geerligs, J. and Kowch, R., Performance of Micro Motion Coriolis Mass flow meter; 4th International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, Denver, 1999
Karnik, U., Studzinski, W., Geerligs, J. and Kowch, R Scale up of the NOVA flow conditioner : 4th International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, Denver, 1999
Studzinski, W., Karnik, U., LaNasa, P., Morrow, T., Goodson, D., Husain, Z. and Gallagher, J., Revision of ANSI-2530 Orifice Meter Standard - Basis of Recommended Meter Run Length, 4th International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, Denver, 1999
Karnik, U., Studzinski, W., Geerligs, J.and Rogi, M., Effect of flow conditioners and Pulsation on ultrasonic meters, International Pipeline Conference, Calgary, 1998.
Karnik, U., Studzinski, and Rogi, M., Performance Evaluation of 8inch Multi-Path ultrasonic meters, American Gas Association meeting, Nashville, 1997.
Karnik, U., Geerligs, J., Brett, D. and R. Given, Effect of pulsation and liquid contaminant on Micro-Motion Mass flow meter : Report to Consortium members, June 1999.
Karnik, U., Geerligs, J., Brett, D. and R. Given, Effect of steps and roughness on multi-path ultrasonic meters : Report to Consortium, Oct. 1999.
Studzinski, W., Karnik, U., LaNasa, P., Morrow, T., Goodson, D., Husain, Z. and Gallagher, J., White paper on Installation Effects on Orifice meters, For the API Working Group : Revision of API 14.3 part 2., Dec., 1997.
Studzinski, W., Karnik, U., Geerligs, J. and McBrien, R., Effect of pulsation of Orifice Meter Performance, GRI Report #97/0378, Nov, 1997.
Karnik, U., Studzinski, W., Jones, B., INSTALLATION EFFECTS (WITHOUT FLOW CONDITIONER) ON ORIFICE METER PERFORMANCE, GRI Report #96/0384, Dec., 1996.
Rogi, M., Shen, J. and Karnik, U., FIELD PERFORMANCE TESTS OF 8INCH MULTI-PATH ULTRASONIC METERS AT NOVA'S FIGURE LAKE TEST FACILITY, ASME Fluids Engineering Meeting, June, 1997.
Studzinski, W., and Karnik, U., INSTALLATION EFFECTS ON ORIFICE METER WITH NO FLOW CONDITIONER, ASME FLUIDS ENGINEERING MEETING, June, 1997.
Studzinski, W., and Karnik, U., EVALUATION OF METERING EQUIPMENT FOR THE FACILITY PROVISION, PLATFORMS/METER STATION PROCESS, March, 1998.
Karnik, U, Rogi, M., Studzinski,W. and Schidlowsky, L., USE OF ULTRASONIC METERS FOR MAINLINE MEASUREMENT, January, 1999
Karnik, U. 1996 EFFECT OF INCREASING PLATE THICKNESS ON THE METERING ACCURACY OF AN 8 INCH ORIFICE METER., Advances in Measurement Technology, A.G.A. Conference, Montreal.
Karnik, U. 1995 A COMPACT ORIFICE METER/FLOW CONDITIONER PACKAGE., 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, San Antonio,U.S.A.
Karnik, U. and Williamson, I., 1995 EFFECT OF EXPANDERS ON ORIFICE METER ACCURACY, 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, San Antonio,U.S.A.
Williamson, I.D., Sawchuk, B.D. and U.Karnik, 1995, "THE NOVA METER PROVER", 3rd International Symposium on Fluid Flow Measurement, San Antonio,U.S.A.
Karnik, U., 1993, "MEASUREMENTS OF THE TURBULENCE STRUCTURE DOWNSTREAM OF A TUBE BUNDLE AT HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBERS", Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Conference, Washington D.C.
Karnik, U., Jungowski, W.M. and Botros, K.K., 1992, "EFFECT OF TURBULENCE ON ORIFICE METER PERFORMANCE", Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Calgary, Canada.
Karnik, U., Jungowski, W.M. and Botros, K.K., 1991, "EFFECTS OF FLOW CHARACTERISTICS DOWNSTREAM OF ELBOW/FLOW CONDITIONER ON ORIFICE METER", Proceedings of the 9th North Sea Flow Measurement Workshop, Part 2, Norway.
Stapountzis, H., Tavoularis, S. and Karnik, U., 1985, "WIND TURBINE DESIGN: SOME ASPECTS OF MEAN AND UNSTEADY LOADING IN UNSTEADY FLOWS", Proceedings of the Delphi Workshop On Wind Energy Applications.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1983, "THE ASYMPTOTIC DEVELOPMENT OF NEARLY HOMOGENEOUS SHEAR FLOW", 4th Symposium of Turbulent Shear Flows.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Karnik, U., 1993, "ORIFICE PLATE METERING USING HIGH DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE", Meeting of the Gas Metering Research Council, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.
Tavoularis, S. and Karnik, U., 1988, "LAGRANGIAN CORRELATIONS AND SCALES IN A UNIFORMLY SHEARED FLOW", Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 33, 2250.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1988, "TURBULENT DISPERSION IN A UNIFORMLY SHEARED FLOW", Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 33, 2302.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1988, "ESTIMATION OF LAGRANGIAN CHARACTERISTICS FROM DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS IN A UNIFORM SHEAR FLOW", 8th Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics.
Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1984, "REDUCTION OF UNIFORM MEAN SHEAR WITH THE USE OF GRIDS AND SCREENS", 37th Meeting of the Division of Fluid Mechanics, American Physical Society, 1984.
Stapountzis, H., Karnik, U. and Tavoularis, S., 1983, "MEASUREMENT OF VORTEX SHEDDING FREQUENCIES IN STRONGLY SHEARED TURBULENCE", 35th Meeting of the Division of Fluid Mechanics, American Physical Society.
