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Research & Facilities - Research - Heat & Mass Transfer

Faculty: Dr. Karen Thole, Dr. Horacio Perez-Blanco, Dr. Fan-Bill Cheung, Dr. Aman Haque, Dr. Anil Kulkarni, Dr. John Mahaffy, Dr. Panagiotis Michaleris, Dr. Michael Modest, Dr. Stefan Thynell, Dr. Chao-Yang Wang, Dr. Savash Yavuzkurt

Research Areas: Advanced reactor vessel cooling; rocket exhaust ducts; packed beds; transverse acoustic wave interaction with a boundary layer; very high pressure gas compressors; laser-materials processing; casting and welding of alloys; freeze coating; measurement of radiative properties of solids, liquids, and gases; radiative heat transfer modeling; transient natural convection in liquid metals; electromagnetic field effects, waste heat recovery by phase change particles; two-phase heat and mass transfer studies: boiling, condensation, absorption, melting, solidification; heat exchangers, fouling in heat exchange equipment; mine-waste leachate studies; heat and mass transfer in battery and fuel cell systems.

Elimination of welding distortion in curved stiffened panels such as the Maglev beam and ship structures - Dr. Panagiotis Michaleris