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Professor Massoud Kaviany
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Current Lab Members
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Fan Lu (M.S. Student)
Recipient of 2023-24 Rackham International Student Fellowship
Lorenzo Franceschetti (Ph.D. Student)
2024 NSF GRFP Recipient
Open Positions
We have open Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral positions for qualified individuals. Send resume to [email protected].
Laboratory Alumni/Alumnae
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Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars
Name | Date | Research Topic | Current Position |
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Charn-Jung Kim | 1991-1992 | Numerical Methods in Heat Transfer with Phase-Change | Seoul National University Korea |
Kotsu Hanamura | 1993-1994 | Condensation in Porous Media | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
Melik Sahraoui | 1992-1994 | Premixed Gaseous Combustion in Porous Media | Tunisia Polytechnic University Tunisia |
Jae-Dong Chung | 1997-1998 | Effective Thermal Conductivity of Porous Silicon | Sejong University, Seoul, Korea |
Amir A.M.Oliveira | 1998-1999 | In-Cylinder Particulate Filtering and Conversion of Pollutants | Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil |
Scott G. Liter | 2000-2001 | Examination of Interatomic Potentials for Molecular Dynamics Simulations | GE Global Research |
Yoon-Been Lee | 2001-2002 | Diffusion-Reaction in Multi-Length Scale Porous Media | Seoul National University, Korea |
Jin-Hyun Nam | 2001-2003 | Water Management in Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel cells | Daegu University, Korea |
Nikolai Sergueev | 2010-2011 | Thermoelectric Molecular Junctions | University of South Carolina |
Seungha Shin | 2013-2014 | Phonon Recycling | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Corey Melnick | 2017-2018 | Phonoelectricity | Brookhaven National Lab |
Ph.D. Students
Name | Date | Research Topic | Current Position |
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Yong-Xin Tao | 1989 | Effect of Surface Saturation on Evaporation Rate | Nova Southeastern University |
Farouk Ben-Ammar | 1991 | An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Heat Transfer During Impact | Industrial Mechanics of Maghrib, Tunisia |
Charn-Jung Kim | 1991 | A Finite-Difference Method for Phase-Change Problems | Seoul National University, Korea |
Monther Al-Farah | 1992 | Film Condensation in Tilted Thermosyphons | Mu’tah University, Jordan |
Melik Sahraoui | 1992 | Slip and No-Slip Boundary Conditions for Porous Plain Media Interface: Hydrodynamics, Conduction and Convection | Tunisia Polytechnic University, Tunisia |
Mahmood Fatehi | 1996 | Role of Solid-Gas Thermal and Chemical Nonequilibria in Combusting Porous Media | Visteon Corporation |
Amir A.M. Oliveira | 1998 | Effect of Particle- and Specimen-Level Transport on Product State: Compacted-Powder Combustion Synthesis and Thermal Debinding | Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil |
Scott G. Liter | 2000 | Pool Boiling Enhancement and Liquid Chocking Limits within and above a Modulated Porous-Layer Coating | GE Global Research |
Chan-Woo Park | 2000 | Modeling Thermal Regeneration in Reciprocating, Reacting Streams with Applications in Thermoelectric Power Generation and in Internal Combustion Engines | University of Missouri-Columbia |
Alan McGaughey | 2004 | Phonon Transport in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Formulation and Thermal Conductivity Prediction | Carnegie Mellon University |
Luciana da Silva | 2005 | Integrated Micro Thermoelectric Cooler: Theory, Fabrication and Characterization | Institute for Technological Research (IPT), Brazil |
Xulin Ruan | 2006 | Fundamentals of Laser Cooling of Rare-earth-ion Doped Solids and its Enhancement using Nanopowders | Purdue University |
Baoling Huang | 2008 | Phonon Conductivity Metrics for Compact, Layered, Linked-Cage, and Filled-Cage Crystals, Using Ab-Initio, Molecular Dynamics and Boltzmann Transport Treatments | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Gisuk Hwang | 2010 | Pore-Water and Proton Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell: Molecular Dynamics and Mon- and Bimodal Wetting Treatments of Mesopore Hydrated Nafion | Wichita State University |
Jedo Kim | 2011 | Phonon Tuning and Recycling in Photonic Energy Conversion: Atomic-Structure Metrics and Examples | Hongik University in Seoul, Korea |
Seungha Shin | 2013 | Fundamental Kinetics and Innovative Applications of Nonequilibrium Atomic Vibration in Thermal Energy Transport and Conversion | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Hyoungchul Kim | 2013 | Tuning Structure and Thermal Evolution of High-ZT Thermoelectrics Using First Principles | Hongik University in Seoul, Korea |
Corey Melnick | 2017 | The Phonovoltaic Cell: Harvesting Optical Phonons in Order to Approach the Carnot Limit | Brookhaven National Lab |
Julio Ferreira | 2022 | Control and Enhancement of Saturated Flow-Boiling Thermal Conductance and Crisis with Porous Metasurfaces: Hydrodynamic-Stability and Capillary-Viscous Limit Theories, Direct Simulations, and Experimental Verification | POLO Labs – Research Laboratories for Emerging Technologies in Cooling and Thermophysics |
M.S. Students
Name | Date | Research Topic | Current Position |
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Melik Sahraoui | 1988 | Natural Convection from Disks and Rings | Tunisia Polytechnic University, Tunisia |
Jeffrey A. Rogers | 1989 | Dying of Nonhygroscopic Porous Media | Babcock & Wilcox Company |
Lawrence Chaney | 1990 | A Phase-Change Actuated Microelectromechanical Device | Babcock & Wilcox Company |
Martin J. Reckker | 1990 | Dumping of Liquid Nitrogen to Pressures Below One Atmosphere | Ford Motor Company |
Bruce Squires | 1990 | Gel Formation in Liquid Nitrogen using Hydrocarbons | Fermi National Laboratory |
Bhupinder P. Singh | 1991 | Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Media | Caterpillar Incorporated |
Timothy P. Purwin | 1992 | Influence of Gravitational Environment on Cryogenic Liquid Tank Venting and Dumping | Calsonic North America |
Kelvin Fu | 1993 | Thermal Circuit Modeling of Alternators and Experimental Verification | ITT Aerospace Controls |
Justin MacLaurin | 1996 | Heat Transfer Characteristics of Compact Condensers | Battelle Columbus Laboratory |
David Burgess | 1997 | Optimization of Compact Condensers | Ford Motor Company |
Minas Mezedur | 2000 | Network Modeling of Washcoat Effective Mass Diffusivity | TEKNOROT |
Ozgur Karagozuglu | 2001 | Design and Fabrication of Thermoelectric Micro-Coolers | Applied Materials Inc. |
Gisuk Hwang | 2006 | Modulated Wick Heat Pipe | Wichita State University |
Jedo Kim | 2008 | Purging of Dropwise Condensate by Electrowetting | Hongik University in Seoul, Korea |
Dahye Min | 2008 | Capillary Artery-Evaporator Designs for Heat Spreading and Modulated Porous Coatings for Enhanced Pool-Boiling | University of Illinois-UC (Postdoctoral Fellow) |
Corey Melnick | 2016 | Roles of Core-Shell and δ-Ray Kinetics in Layered BN α-Voltaic Efficiency | Brookhaven National Lab |
Zijie Chen | 2020 | Direct simulations of biphilic-surface condensation: optimized size effects | University of Michigan (PhD student) |
Sanat Modak | 2020 | Numerical analysis of meniscus dynamics in monolayer-wick dropwise condensation | Exponent |
Fan Lu | 2024 | Heat, mass, and momentum transport in wet mineral-wool insulation | Current PhD student |
Kyle Krippner | 2024 | An analytic, slug-deposited liquid film thermal resistance model for OHP |
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