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

Yuan Xuan

Electrochemical Engine Center

Chao-Yang Wang

Energy Nanostructure Lab

Donghai Wang

Environmental and Biological Fluid Mechanics Lab

Margaret Byron

Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium

Robert Kunz, Laura Pauley

Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flow Lab

Matthew Rau

High Pressure Combustion Lab

Richard Yetter

Interfacial Phenomena Lab

Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado

Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy Lab

Alex Rattner

Nanomechanical Systems Laboratory

Aman Haque

Pangborn Advanced Controls Lab

Herschel Pangborn

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

Jacqueline O’Connor

Smart City Laboratory

Satadru Dey

Nanoscale Thermography and Electronics Reliability Lab

Sukwon Choi

Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics Group

Steve Lynch, Karen Thole

Wong Laboratory for Nature Inspired Engineering

Tak Sing Wong

Linxiao Zhu Group

Linxiao Zhu