- 1/18/2024 Chinmay Shingote successfully passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Shingote!
- 12/6/2023 Yue Qiu successfully passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Qiu!
- 10/10/2023 Dr. Chirag Kharangate has been named one of the 2024 Young Investigator Award (YIP) recipients of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- ONR News Release: https://www.nre.navy.mil/media-center/news-releases/best-and-brightest-onrs-2024-young-investigators
- ONR 2024 YIP Recipients: https://www.nre.navy.mil/2024-
young-investigators
- 09/01/2023 We were awarded a new 3 year grant from NSF to investigate flow condensation. This is a collaborative effort with Advanced Cooling Technologies, and together we plan to perform experiments on the International Space Station, supplement with terrestrial tests, and develop physics models to understand fundamentals of thermal transport during phase-change in condensers.
- 8/1/2023 We were awarded a NASA STTR Phase 1 grant to develop accurate computational fluid dynamics simulations tools for phase-change in cryogenic tanks applicable to future NASA Mars and Moon missions. This is a joint effort with Creare LLC.
- 05/11/2023 Yue Qiu was awarded the 2023 Cazier Scholarship Award.
- 05/11/2023 Jiayuan Li and Logan Pirnstill were awarded the 2023 Horsburgh Fellowship Award.
- 05/02/2023 Dr. Chirag Kharangate was awarded the 2023 Case School of Engineering Research Award
- 11/15/2022 We were awarded a NASA STTR Phase 2 grant to investigate development of continuous correlations for pool boiling in cryogenic tanks applicable to future NASA Mars and Moon missions. This is a joint effort with Creare LLC.
- 07/31/2022 Cho-Ning Huang successfully passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations Dr. Huang!
- 7/1/2022 We were awarded a new 3 year grant from ONR to investigate interfacial behaviors during condensation to improve fundamental understanding and design tools development in naval thermal management systems.
- 6/20/2022 Jarred Wilhite was awarded the Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference (µFIP) 2022 Travel Award.
- 1/1/2022 We started a new 5 year grant from NASA to investigate flow boiling during tank-to-tank transfer chilldown tests to be conducted on the International Space Station.
- 12/17/2021 Our new project with NASA is in news. Please read here.
- 09/22/2021 Jiayuan Li was awarded the 2021 Swanger Fellowship.
- 08/23/2021 Logan Pirnstill was awarded the 2021 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Teaching Fellowship.
- 06/28/2021 We were awarded a new 1 year grant from NSF to investigate flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF). We will use a combination of high-speed imaging and particle image velocimetry to uncover the physical mechanism behind CHF.
- 05/28/2021 NASA Selects TPFTML to Conduct Fluid Physics Flow Boiling Experiments on the International Space Station. Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/biological-physical/nasa-selects-proposals-to-conduct-fluid-physics-flow-boiling-experiments-on-the-international-space-station
- 05/19/2021 We were awarded a new project under NASA STTR Phase 1 to investigate development of continuous correlations for pool boiling in cryogenic tanks applicable to future NASA Mars and Moon missions. This is a joint effort with Creare LLC.
- 05/15/2021 Chinmay Shingote was awarded the 2021 Graduate Student Teaching Award.
- 05/15/2021 Yue Qiu was awarded the 2021 Graduate Student Research Award.
- 05/3/2021 Madeline Barto was awarded a scholarship from the Ohio Space Grant Consortium to work on pool boiling research.
- 3/20/2021 Cho-Ning Huang recently published an article, "Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for A Variable Conductance Thermosyphon", in the Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X21001234
- 1/28/2021 We were awarded a new 3 year grant from ONR to investigate a novel thermal management concept to be utilized in power systems of future naval aircraft. In this effort, we are collaborating with Dr. Carter and Dr. McGuffin-Cawley from Material Science and Engineering Department to develop novel 3D manifold microchannel configurations for high heat flux devices by additively manufacturing silicon nitride.
- 11/30/2020 Victoria Rouse was awarded the 2020 Swanger Fellowship from the Case School of Engineering.
- 10/05/2020 Jarred Wilhite was awarded the 2021 NASA Center Innovation Fund grant for the project, "Advanced fluidic architectures for compact electronics".
- 09/21/2020 Yue Qiu recently published an article, “Computational investigation of annular flow condensation in microgravity with two-phase inlet conditions,” in the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S073519332030405X
- 09/4/2020 Liwei Zhou and Yue Qiu recently published an article, “Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Flow Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficient in Mini/micro-channel utilizing Universal Data,” in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0017931020332877
- 09/02/2020 Yue Qiu successfully passed his Thermal-Fluids qualifying examination.
- 05/15/2020 Chinmay Shingote successfully passed his Thermal-Fluids qualifying examination.
- 07/18/2020 Cho-Ning Huang recently published an article, “Consolidated model for predicting flow boiling critical heat flux in single-sided and double-sided heated rectangular channels,” in the International Journal in Heat and Mass Transfer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0017931020330684
- 05/01/2020 Cho-Ning was awarded the 2020 Graduate Student Research Award.
- 12/19/2019 We were awarded a new project under NASA STTR Phase 2 to investigate a novel design for a vapor conductance heat pipe applicable to future NASA Mars and Moon missions. This is a joint effort with Advanced Cooling Technologies, LLC.
- 12/11/2019 Yue Qiu and Liwei Zhou recently published an article, “An artificial neural network model to predict mini/micro-channels saturated flow boiling heat transfer coefficient based on universal consolidated data,” in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0017931019350203
- 08/28/2019 Cho-Ning Huang and Jarred Wilhite successfully passed their Thermal-Fluids qualifying examination.