שיצר אברהם

מערכות אנרגיה; יישומי אנרגיה תרמו-סולרית; יישומי מעבר חום ברפואה ובביולוגיה; מערכות מיזוג אויר וקירור.

תרמודינמיקה

ראש המחלקה להנדסת אנרגיית גז ונפט.

Selected publications

• Shitzer, A., Paradox: Increased blood flow to the face enhances protection against frostbite while lowering wind chill temperatures. International Journal of Biometeorology. Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 383-393, 2007.

• Magalov, Z., Shitzer, A. and Degani, D. Isothermal volume contours generated in a freezing gel by embedded cryo-needles with applications to cryo-surgery. Cryobiology. Vol 55/2, pp. 127-137, 2007.

• Shitzer, A., Transient analysis of the effects of cold wind on exposed skin: reflections on the assessment of wind chill equivalent temperatures. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 47, 917-924, 2008.

• Shitzer, A. and de Dear, R., Reply to "Comment on "inconsistencies in the 'new' wind chill chart at low wind speeds." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 917–924, 2008.

• Magalov, Z., Shitzer, A. and Degani, D., Experimental and numerical study of 1, 2 and 3 embedded needle cryo-probes simultaneously operated by high pressure Argon gas. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 130, No. 3, pp. 032301/1-12, 2008.

• Shitzer, A. Assessment of the effects of environmental radiation on wind chill equivalent temperatures. European Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol. 104, No. 2, pp. 115-120, 2008.

• Beckerman, G., Shitzer, A. and Degani, D., Numerical model of the effects of a thermally-significant blood vessel on solidification by a circular surface cryosurgical probe compared to experimental data. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 131, No.5, pp. 051101.1-9, 2009.

• Rybko, N., Shitzer, A. and Degani, D., Experimental simulation of a thermally significant blood vessel in a tissue subjected to cryo-surgery, 7th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics, Krakow, Poland, pp. 193-200, 28/6-03/7, 2009.

• Kolarik, J., Toftum, J., Olesen, B. W. and Shitzer, A., Occupant responses and office work performance in environments with moderately drifting temperatures (RP-1269). HVAC&R Research, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 931-960, 2009.

• Shitzer, A., Cryosurgery: Analysis and experimentation of cryoprobes in phase changing media. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 11005.1-12, 2011.

• Shitzer, A. and Tikuisis, P., Advances, shortcomings, and recommendations for wind chill estimation. International Journal of Biometeorology, Special Issue (UTCI), Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 495-503, 2012. (DOI 10.1007/S00484-010-0362-9, September 201(.

• Benshabat, Y., and Shitzer, A., Facial convective heat exchange coefficients in cold and windy environments estimated from human experiments. International Journal of Biometeorology, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 639-651, 2012. (DOI 10.1007/s00484-011-0463-0, July 2011(.

• Rotman, O., Zaretsky, U., Shitzer A. and Einav S., Effect of arterial distensibility and stenoses on pressure drop in pulsatile flow. Proceedings, ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Paper No. SBC2012-80058, pp. 587-588, doi:10.1115, 2012

• Levin, P. P., Shitzer, A. and Hetsroni, G., Numerical optimization of a PCM-based Heat Sink with Internal Fins, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 61, 638–645, 2013

• Benshabat, Y., Shitzer, A. and Fiala, D., Modified wind chill temperatures determined by a whole body thermoregulation model and convective coefficients based on human experiments. International Journal of Biometeorology, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1007-1015, 2014. (DOI 10/1007/s00484-013-069-z, 2013(.

• Rotman, O.M., Zaretsky, U., Shitzer, A. and Einav, S., Method for high accuracy differential pressure measurements using fluid-filled catheters, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 8 (2014), pp. 1705-1716, 2014. (ABME-D-14-00198R1(.

• Shitzer, A., Reply to Comments by R. Osczevski on "Modified wind chill temperatures determined by a whole body thermoregulation model and human-based convective coefficients" by Ben Shabat, Shitzer and Fiala (2013) and "Facial convective heat exchange coefficients in cold and windy environments estimated from human experiments" by Ben Shabat and Shitzer (2012)" by A. Shitzer. International Journal of Biometeorology, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1019-1020, 2014. (DOI: 10.1007/s00484-014-0856-y, 2014)

• Rotman, O.M., Zaretsky, U., Shitzer, A. and Einav, S., High accuracy differential pressure measurements using fluid-filled catheters – A feasibility study in compliant tubes, Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 3543-3548, 2015.

• Shitzer, A., Arens, E. and Zhang, H., Compilation of basal metabolic and blood perfusion rates in various multi-compartment, whole body thermoregulation models, International Journal of Biometeorology, (DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-1096-5, 2015)

• Magalov, Z., Shitzer, A. and Degani, D., An efficient technique for estimating the two-dimensional temperature distributions around multiple cryo-surgical probes based on combining contributions of unit circles, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, (DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2016.1154546, 2016).