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Heat and Mass
Transfer
Faculty: Dr.
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Dr.
Fan-Bill Cheung, Dr.
Aman Haque, Dr.
Lawrence Hochreiter, 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.
(Below) Elimination
of welding distortion in curved stiffened panels
such as the Maglev beam and ship structures -
Dr. Panagiotis Michaleris

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(Below)
Laser Maching of Ceramics - Decomposition Process |

Alumina
wafer cut with 70W (underside)
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Silicon
Nitrate (Si3N4) scribed with
600W, 15cm/s.
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