Issam Mudawar discusses the future of cooling spacecraft
Dr. Issam Mudawar has been conducting groundbreaking research at Purdue for more than 30 years, specificially in heat transfer and thermal management for electronics, avionics, energy, and materials.
He has worked with Rolls-Royce to investigate high-Mach propulsion and hydrogen storage at Zucrow Labs. He also founded the Boiling and Two-Phase Flow Laboratory, now partnering with NASA on boiling-and-condensing systems to manage temperatures on future spacecraft. He has supervised more than 65 Ph.D. students, published more than 200 journal articles, and spoken at numerous conferences. Thomson Reuters cited him as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” in 2015.
Issam Mudawar was recently named the Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering, honoring Betty Ruth Hollander, who founded OMEGA Engineering in 1962 (now a $180 million global company); and Milton B. Hollander (BSME ‘51), who served as VP for Gulf+Western and holds more than 200 patents.