Members

Professor Massoud Kaviany

Professor Massoud Kaviany

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Current Lab Members

Fan Lu (M.S. Student)

Recipient of 2023-24 Rackham International Student Fellowship

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Lorenzo Franceschetti (Ph.D. Student)

2024 NSF GRFP Recipient

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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
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
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
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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