News

• 10/29/2026 Huigang Wang received the 2026 InterPACK Nasser Grayeli Best Poster Award at the 2026 InterPACK Conference.
• 10/1/2026 Dr. Kharangate was selected as the 2026 Veale Faculty Fellow by Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship at CWRU.
• 9/1/2026 We were awarded a new 1 year grant by NASA: Continuous Correlations for Complete Boiling Curves of Cryogenic Fluids. The project has Creare LLC as the lead and Dr. Kharangate serves as the Research Institution Principal Investigator (RI-PI).  This is a NASA STTR Phase IIE Grant. 

• 9/1/2026 We were awarded a new 2 year single-PI grant from NASA: Next Generation Microgravity Research. This project has Ya-Ting Liao as the PI and Chirag serves as the co-PI. Dr. Kharangate investigates fluid behaviors of cryogenic propellants in partial gravity.

• 08/25/26 Sruthi Shanker Pydimarry were awarded the 2026 Mechancical and Aerospace Engineering TA Fellowship Award. 
• 6/1/2026 We were awarded a new 3 year single-PI grant from ONR: Predicting Two-Phase Interfacial Turbulence Through Advanced Diagnostic Experimentation and Modeling to study turbulence during phase-change processes impacting design of naval condensers and other heat exchanger equipment.

• 09/15/2025 Dr. Chirag Kharangate was elected to be an Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
• 09/01/2025 We were awarded a new 3 year single-PI grant from NSF: Machine Learning for Physics Extraction and Surrogate Modeling of the Flow Boiling Phenomena. We will develop novel AI/ML strategies to uncover and understand hydrodynamic instabilities and their relation to flow boiling thermal transport for thermal management applications.

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• 08/25/25 Forouzan Naderi were awarded the 2025 Mechancical and Aerospace Engineering TA Fellowship Award. 
• 07/01/25 Dr. Kharangate was promoted to the position of Associate Professor (with tenure) at Case Western Reserve University.   
• 05/13/25 Jiayuan Li and Farshad Golezani were awarded the 2025 Horsburgh Scholarship Award. 

• 10/10/24 Dr. Chirag Kharangate was awarded the 2024 ASME EPPD Early Career Engineer Award
• 09/20/2024 Huigang Wang was awarded the 2024 EMAE Teaching Fellowship
• 8/1/2024 We are part of a winning team in the latest round of DoD MURI awards. We will rethink the approaches for developing thermal design tools with the use of novel machine learning techniques for interpretation of experimental data and developing highly generalizable predictive tool. The team consists of 7 PIs across 5 universities including Purdue, Case Western Reserve, Georgia Tech, Michigan State, and Brown, with multidisciplinary expertise in mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mathematics.    https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3700836/department-of-defense-announces-fiscal-year-2024-university-research-funding-aw/ 

• 5/30/2024 Dr. Chirag Kharangate was awarded the 2023 ASME Outstanding Early Career in Thermal Management Award
• 05/20/2024 Farshad Barghi Golezani was awarded the 2024 EMAE Graduate Teaching Award.
• 05/20/2024 Logan Pirnstill was awarded the 2024 Pau-Cheng Lu Fellowship Award. 
• 05/20/24 Jiayuan Li was awarded the 2024 Horsburgh Scholarship Award. 
• 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)

1. ONR News Release: https://www.nre.navy.mil/media-center/news-releases/best-and-brightest-onrs-2024-young-investigators 
2. 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.