
Energy Systems
We are making significant advances in the way we power our homes, vehicles, and infrastructure.
Our faculty work to improve batteries, fuel cells, power generation, and propulsion. Through the Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center faculty and students work with advanced materials used to manufacture batteries as well as energy storage systems. Additional labs range from large-scale combustion and turbomachinery facilities to computational facilities for wind energy research or atomistic and system level simulations.
Labs, Centers, and Groups
Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center
Chris Rahn, Chao-Yang Wang, Donghai Wang
Computational Reacting Flows Lab
Electrochemical Engine Center
Energy Nanostructure Lab
Environmental and Biological Fluid Mechanics Lab
Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium
Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flow Lab
High Pressure Combustion Lab
Interfacial Phenomena Lab
Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy Lab
Nanomechanical Systems Laboratory
Pangborn Advanced Controls Lab
Penn State Center for Combustion, Power, and Propulsion
Dan Haworth (director), Adri van Duin, Jackie O’Connor, Yuan Xuan, Richard Yetter
Reacting Flow Dynamics Lab
Smart City Laboratory
Nanoscale Thermography and Electronics Reliability Lab
Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics Group
Wong Laboratory for Nature Inspired Engineering
Linxiao Zhu Group


Related Faculty
- Fan-Bill Cheung
- Sukwon Choi
- John Cimbala
- Satadru Dey
- Dan Haworth
- Anil Kulkarni
- Thomas Litzinger
- Stephen Lynch
- Jacqueline O'Connor
- Zoubeida Ounaies
- Herschel Pangborn
- Laura Pauley
- Chris Rahn
- Alex Rattner
- Asok Ray
- Alok Sinha
- Karen Thole
- Stefan Thynell
- Adri van Duin
- Chao-Yang Wang
- Donghai Wang
- Yuan Xuan
- Richard Yetter
- Linxiao Zhu