Thermofluid and Energy Sciences

Thermofluid and Energy Sciences

Heat and mass transfer in biological/environmental/industrial applications, microfluidics/nanofluidics, complex fluids, mechanobiology,  interfacial phenomena/wetting, additive manufacturing, energy generation, energy storage, energy efficient space heating and cooling, smart electronics and data center cooling, small-scale power harvesting


Snapshot of Select Funded Research 

Paul Chiarot

  • Artifical Intelligence Guided Electrospray Deposition of Polymeric Films - National Science Foundation 

Cosan Daskiran

  • Off-grid tidal turbine-driven centrifugal reverse osmosis system - US Department of Energy

Bahgat Sammakia

  • SCALE: A Microelectronic Workforce Development Production Project - Purdue

Bahgat Sammakia (PI), Scott Schiffres, SB Park (co-PI’s)

  • Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce Development Consortium Subagreement No. 13000844-021 – Purdue University 

Scott Schiffres 

  • I-Corps: Additive Laser Metal Deposition onto Sillicon for Enhanced Electronics Cooling – National Science Foundation
  • Intermetallic Interfacial Thermal Transport for Advanced Electronics Manufacturing - National Science Foundation CAREER

Scott Schiffres (PI), Bahgat Sammakia, Changhong Ke (co-PI’s) 

  • PFI-TTT: Enhanced Electronic Cooling via 3D Printing from Additive Laser Fabrication of Heat Removal Devices – National Science Foundation 

Jifu Tan 

  • CAREER: Multiscale Modeling of Thrombus Formation and its Response to External Loads - National Science Foundation 
  • ERI: Integration of Computational Modeling and Machine Learning for Clot Mechanics - National Science Foundation 

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