Dr. Rick J. Couvillion, P.E.

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Office: MEEG 208
Phone: (479) 575-4155
E-mail: rjc@uark.edu
WWW: http://comp.uark.edu/~rjc/

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, December 1981, Georgia Tech
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, September 1978, Georgia Tech
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, May 1975, University of Arkansas

Professional Licensure

Licensed Professional Engineer

Selected Publications

Books
• Hart, D.P., and Couvillion, R.J., Earth Coupled Heat Transfer, American Water Well Association, 1986.
• ASHRAE, Fundamentals Handbook, Ch. 5 - Mass Transfer, Editor, 2005.
• ASHRAE, Fundamentals Handbook, Ch. 3 - Heat Transfer, Co-editor, 2005.
• ASHRAE, Fundamentals Handbook, Ch. 2 - Fluid Flow, Co-editor, 2005.
• Advanced Electronic Packaging, Ch. 7 - Thermal Management, Richard K Ulrich and William D Brown, eds.,IEEE Press, 2006.
Refereed Journals, Invited Presentations
• Sutton, Matthew G., Couvillion, Rick J., et al., "An Algorithm for Approximating the Performance of Vertical Bore Heat Exchangers Installed in a Stratified Geological Regime" ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 108-2, June, 2002.
• Sutton, Matthew G., Nutter, Darin W., Couvillion, Rick J., and Davis, Ralph K., "Comparison of Multilayer Borefield Design Algorithm (MLBDA) to Available GCHP Benchmark Data" ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 108-2, June, 2002.
• Matt Sutton, Darin Nutter, and Rick Couvillion, A Ground Resistance for Vertical Bore Heat Exchangers with Groundwater Flow, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Sep 2003.
• Couvillion, Rick J, “Curve Fits for Heisler Chart Eigenvalues”, Computers in Education Journal, July-Sep, 2004.
Other Refereed Publications
• Couvillion, Rick J. and Hawisa, Jamal S., Heat and Moisture Transport with Internal Condensation in a Fibrous Slab with Impermeable Boundary, in Multiphase Transport in Porous Media, ASME Heat Transfer Division, Vol. 265, Dec. 1993. Co-author.
• Stewart, Michael B., Hau, Yien Yen, and Couvillion, Rick, "An Efficient Implicit Numerical Model of Unsaturated Groundwater Flow", 18th Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, April, 1996.
• Davis, James and Couvillion, Rick J., "Gamma Densitometry Modified for Measuring Porous Media Moisture Content Near Boundaries", 18th Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, April, 1996.
• S. Ang, et al., "Electronic Packaging Education at University of Arkansas", contributing author, IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 2000.
• W. Brown, et al., "Curriculum Restructuring to Answer Control Needs in Packaging for Energy Efficiency/Removable Energy Systems, Wireless, and Mixed-Signal Systems Areas", contributing author, IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 2000.
• R. Couvillion et al., Proceedings of the First Joint ASME Region X/SDPS Graduate Student Technical Conference, Editor, March 2003.
• John R. Barcenilla, Darin W. Nutter, and Rick J. Couvillion R. Couvillion et al., CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER IN VERTICAL-BORE HEAT EXCHANGERS WITH LAYERED GEOLOGIES, Proceedings of the Second Joint ASME Region X/SDPS Graduate Student Technical Conference, March 2004.
• R. Couvillion et al., Proceedings of the Second Joint ASME Region X/SDPS Graduate Student Technical Conference, Editor, March 2004.
• R. Couvillion et al., Proceedings of the Third Joint ASME Region X/SDPS Graduate Student Technical Conference, Editor, March 2005.
• R. Couvillion et al., Proceedings of the Fourth Joint ASME Region X/SDPS Graduate Student Technical Conference, Editor, April 2006.
Miscellaneous
• Author of the following programs and detailed user documentation for the Mechanical Engineering Department PC software library:
Excel steam and refrigerant tables
GasPropsXL - Gas tables
PsychXL - Psychrometrics
TPPropsXL - Thermophysical properties