Publications
Publications by Category
2016
Phelan, Patrick E, Robert A Taylor, Ronald J Adrian, Ravi S Prasher, and Todd P Otanicar."Light-induced energy conversion in liquid nanoparticle suspensions."Nanoparticle Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
(2016) 123–142.
Lee, Soochan, Patrick E Phelan, Robert A Taylor, Ravi S Prasher, and Lenore Dai."Low-Temperature Melting of Silver Nanoparticles in Subcooled and Saturated Water."J. Heat Transfer
138 (2016) 052301. DOI
2015
Lee, Soochan, Robert A Taylor, Lenore Dai, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."The effective latent heat of aqueous nanofluids."Mater. Res. Express
2 (2015) 065004. DOI
2014
Lee, Soochan, Patrick E Phelan, Lenore Dai, Ravi S Prasher, Andrey Gunawan, and Robert A Taylor."Experimental investigation of the latent heat of vaporization in aqueous nanofluids."Applied Physics Letters
104 (2014) 151908. DOI
Gunawan, Andrey, Hechao Li, Chao-Han Lin, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A Taylor, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."The amplifying effect of natural convection on power generation of thermogalvanic cells."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
78 (2014) 423–434. DOI
Phelan, Patrick E, Omar Abdelaziz, Todd P Otanicar, Bernadette E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, Robert A Taylor, and Himanshu Tyagi."The impact of thermal engineering research on global climate change."Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 2014
(2014).
2013
Li, Hechao, Andrey Gunawan, Patrick E Phelan, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A Taylor, and Ravi S Prasher."Electrode Separation and Operating Orientation: Mechanisms for Maximizing Performance of Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cells."ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
(2013) V06AT07A074–V06AT07A074. DOI
Gunawan, Andrey, Chao-Han Lin, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A Taylor, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."Liquid Thermoelectrics: Review of Recent And Limited New Data of Thermogalvanic Cell Experiments."Nanoscale Microscale Thermophys. Eng.
17 (2013) 304–323. DOI
Miner, Mark J, Patrick E Phelan, Brent A Odom, Carlos A Ortiz, Ravi S Prasher, and Jonathan A Sherbeck."Optimized Expanding Microchannel Geometry for Flow Boiling."J. Heat Transfer
135 (2013) 042901. DOI
2012
Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Todd P Otanicar, Ravi S Prasher, and Bernadette E Phelan."Socioeconomic impacts of heat transfer research."Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer
39 (2012) 1467–1473. DOI
Lin, Chao-Han, Andrey Gunawan, Patrick E Phelan, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A Taylor, and Ravi S Prasher."Optimization of Cell Configuration for Maximizing Performance of a Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cell."ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
(2012) 541–547. DOI
Odom, Brent A, Jonathan A Sherbeck, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."Heat Sink Effect on System Pressure and Mass Flow Rate in a Pumped Refrigerant Loop."J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl
4 (2012) 031009. DOI
Odom, Brent A, Mark J Miner, Carlos A Ortiz, Jonathan A Sherbeck, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."Microchannel Two-Phase Flow Oscillation Control With an Adjustable Inlet Orifice."J. Heat Transfer
134 (2012) 122901. DOI
Lv, Wei, Todd P Otanicar, Patrick E Phelan, Robert A Taylor, Rajasekaran Swaminathan, and Ravi S Prasher."Plasmon-Enhanced Properties of Metallic Nanostructures and Their Application to Direct Solar Absorption Receivers."ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
(2012) 135–143. DOI
Taylor, Robert A, Sylvain Coulombe, Todd P Otanicar, Patrick E Phelan, Andrey Gunawan, Wei Lv, Gary Rosengarten, Ravi S Prasher, and Himanshu Tyagi."Critical Review of the Novel Applications and Uses of Nanofluids."ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer
(2012) 219–234. DOI
2011
Otanicar, Todd P, Ihtesham Chowdhury, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."Band-Gap Tuned Direct Absorption for a Hybrid Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal System."J. Sol. Energy Eng.
133 (2011) 041014. DOI
Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Ronald J Adrian, Ravi S Prasher, and Todd P Otanicar."Nanofluid Extinction Coefficients for Photothermal Energy Conversion."ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference
(2011) T30073–T30073–9. DOI
Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Todd P Otanicar, Ronald J Adrian, and Ravi S Prasher."Nanofluid optical property characterization: towards efficient direct absorption solar collectors."Nanoscale Res. Lett.
6 (2011) 225. DOI
2010
Phelan, Patrick E, Y Gupta, Himanshu Tyagi, Ravi S Prasher, J Catano, G Michna, R Zhou, J Wen, Michael K Jensen, and Y Peles."Energy Efficiency of Refrigeration Systems for High-Heat-Flux Microelectronics."J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl
2 (2010) 031004. DOI
Otanicar, Todd P, Ihtesham Chowdhury, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Parametric analysis of a coupled photovoltaic/thermal concentrating solar collector for electricity generation."J. Appl. Phys.
108 (2010) 114907. DOI
. Y. Lai, W, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Pressure-Drop Viscosity Measurements for-Al2O3 Nanoparticles in Water and PG-Water Mixtures (Nanofluids)."J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol.
(2010). DOI
Phelan, Patrick E, Robert A Taylor, Ronald J Adrian, Ravi S Prasher, and Todd P Otanicar."Photothermal Energy Conversion in Liquid Nanoparticle Suspensions."ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting
(2010) 781–787. DOI
Chowdhury, Ihtesham, Todd P Otanicar, Ravi S Prasher, Jonathan A Sherbeck, Patrick E Phelan, and Marc Burrell."Enhanced Efficiency in a Coupled Photovoltaic/Thermal Concentrating Solar Collector."ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability
(2010) 529–536. DOI
Otanicar, Todd P, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, and others others."Nanofluid-based direct absorption solar collector."J. Renewable Sustainable Energy
(2010). DOI
2009
Zhang, Tiejun, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Yoav Peles, Ravi S Prasher, Michael K Jensen, John T Wen, and Patrick E Phelan."Ledinegg instability in microchannels."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
52 (2009) 5661–5674. DOI