Heat & Mass Transfer
Heat & Mass Transfer impacts nearly every area of industry, which is why Purdue hosts numerous laboratories dedicated to studying, enhancing, and pioneering new methods of heat transfer and energy conversion. With this research, Purdue is answering the challenging questions:
- How will we cool the avionics of future spacecraft?
- What can make solar-powered energy more feasible?
- Where does heat transfer improve on engine or battery performance?
- How can nanomanufacturing create better electronics?
- Can thermal therapy create new treatments for disease?
Faculty in Heat & Mass Transfer
- Thermal Physics ... Heat Moving Energy
- Spectroscopy ... "Seeing" energy with light
- Nanophotonics ... Pushing light to see more
- 2D Materials ... Creating functionality by losing dimension
- Modeling, Experiments and Simulations of turbulent boundary layers: role of initial conditions and bio-inspired micro-surfaces on evolution of velocity/thermal fields.
- Importance of turbulence and complex topography on wind energy.
- Integration of renewable with water and thermal storage.
- Translational research focus on renewable energy & society
- Wall interaction (e.g., bio-inspired micro surfaces) in respiratory flows
- Big data in turbulence, renewable energy and biomedical engineering.
- Energy and social equality
- Experimental fluid dynamics
- Development of flow diagnostic techniques
- Flow dynamics in stratified environment
- Turbulent flow measurements and modeling
- DNA nanotechnology
- Advanced materials
- Fluid Mechanics
- Soft Matter
- Granular Flow
- Microfluidics
- Nonlinear Waves
- Computational Science
- CFD of multiphase flows
- Turbulent gas-liquid flows
- Cavitation
- Heat transfer
- Sustainable energy and environment
- Combustion and turbulent reacting flows
- Combustion and heat transfer in materials
- Biomedical flows and heat transfer
- Global policy research
- Biotransport phenomena
- Cell-fluid-matrix interaction
- Microfluidics
- 3D printing of soft materials
- Renewable Energy
- Catalysts
- Aerosol Pollution
- Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
- Electrical Propulsion
- Polymer Characterization
- Protein and Biomolecule Characterization
- Energy Transfer
- Molecular Dynamic coupling at the molecular Scale
- Multiscale Multichemistry Plasma Modeling
- Acoustic tweezers
- Acoustofluidics
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Ultrasound control
- Underwater communication
- Ultrasound imaging
- Multiphysics wave propagation theory
- Noise control and energy harvesting
- Naturally nanostructured materials
- Energy, water, and wearable technology
- Manufacturing
- Transport Phenomena in Multi-Scale, Heterogeneous Materials & Systems
- Fundamentals of Nanoscale Thermal Transport
- Heat Transfer in Natural and Synthetic Fiber Systems
- Thermofluids Interactions
- Multi-Physics Metrology Design
- Electronics Cooling and Thermal Management
- Fluid dynamics
- Multiphase flows
- Monte Carlo methods
- Kinetic theory of granular flows
- Heat transfer in granular media
- Rarefied gas dynamics
- Boiling
- Condensation
- Two-phase Flow
- High heat flux
- Thermal management systems
- Cryogenic systems
- Space vehicles
- Lunar and Martian environments
- Microgravity
- Experiments on International Space Station
- Electronic cooling
- Energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells)
- Mesoscale physics and stochastics
- Reactive transport, materials, processing, and microstructure interactions
- Scalable nanomanufacturing: lithography and imaging
- Optical and magnetic data storage
- Nanoscale energy conversion, transfer and storage for alternative energy
- Turbomachinery, turbines
- Measurement techniques, experimental turbomachinery
- Air-breathing propulsion
- Simulations of nanoscale thermal transport
- Machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design
- Thermal management in electronics, space, and battery applications
- Transport phenomena in additive manufacturing
- Nanomaterials and devices for sustainable energy
- Large eddy and direct simulations
- Turbulent Combustion
- Thermoacoustics
- Non-linear acoustics
- Heat-and-mass transfer
- Physical oceanography and limnology
- Numerical methods for complex geometries
- Multiphase combustion, particularly related to propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics
- Nanoscale composite energetic materials
- Advanced energetic materials
- Microscale combustion
- Computational and experimental solid mechanics focused on fatigue, fracture, and multi-physics phase evolution problems
- Computational techniques including Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Isogeometric Analysis (IGA), geometric modeling, CAD and optimal design
- Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Electronics Packaging with a focus on thermomechanical behavior, reliability, and electrical-thermal-mechanical co-design
- Modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems
- Modeling and testing of pumps and motors for fluid power applications
- Hydraulic valves modeling and testing
- Reduction of noise emissions in fluid power systems
- Two-Phase Flows and Heat Transfer
- High-Heat-Flux Thermal Management Systems for Several Applications, e.g., Outer Space Missions, Electric Vehicles, Ultra-Fast Charging Systems, Electronics Cooling, Avionics, Nuclear Reactors, Metal Manufacturing, Superconductors, Data Centers, etc.
- Gravitational Effects
- Experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS)
- Two-Phase Flow Instabilities
- Fluid-Structure Interactions & Non-Newtonian Fluids in Biological Systems
- Desalination & Water Treatment
- Water-Food-Energy Nexus
- Thermofluids
- Nanotechnology
- Membrane Science
- Heat Transfer in Advanced Semiconductor Interconnects & Packaging
- Electronic Cooling & Efficient Thermal Packaging Materials
- Thermal/Mechanical Simulation & Characterization
- Materials, Processing & Architecture Development for Semiconductor Packaging
- MEMS Fabrication for Extreme Heat Flux Microfluidic Cooling
- Advanced Semiconductor Nanoscale 3D Interconnections
- Novel Photonics & Quantum Packaging Technologies
- Reliability Modeling & Characterization
- Electronics cooling and packaging
- Phase-change transport phenomena
- Microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport
- Energy efficiency in thermal systems
- Transport in porous materials
- Microscale diagnostics and sensing
- Heat transfer, particularly nano-scale and ultrafast heat transfer
- Ultrafast laser materials processing and diagnostics
- Nano-optics and laser-based nano-lithography