Publications

X Author: Ravi S Prasher

2018

Prasher, Ravi S."Acoustic Mismatch Model for Thermal Contact Conductance of Van Der Waals Contacts Under Static Force."Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 22.1 (2018) 1 - 5. DOI(link is external)

2017

Chalise, Divya, Krishna Shah, Ravi S Prasher, and Ankur Jain."Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Thermal Management of a Li-Ion Battery Pack."Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 15.1 (2017) 011008-011008-8. DOI(link is external)
Lu, Daniel, C.P Wong, Ravi S Prasher, and Chia-Pin Chiu."Thermal Interface Materials."Materials for Advanced Packaging (2017) 511 - 535. DOI(link is external)

2016

Ghoshal, Uttam, Ayan Guha, Key Kolle, Himanshu Pokharna, Ravi S Prasher, and Ankita Ghoshal."Fuel-flexible thermal power generator for electric loads." (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(link is external)
Ghoshal, Uttam, Ravi S Prasher, and Ayan Guha."Thermoelectric device for high temperature applications." (2016).

2015

Vishwakarma, Vivek, Chirag Waghela, Zi Wei, Ravi S Prasher, Shrikant C Nagpure, Jianlin Li, Fuqiang Liu, Claus Daniel, and Ankur Jain."Heat transfer enhancement in a lithium-ion cell through improved material-level thermal transport."J. Power Sources 300 (2015) 123–131. DOI(link is external)
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(link is external)
Shi, Li, Chris Dames, Jennifer R Lukes, Pramod Reddy, John C Duda, David G Cahill, Jaeho Lee, Amy Marconnet, Kenneth E Goodson, Je-Hyeong Bahk, Ali Shakouri, Ravi S Prasher, Jonathan Felts, William P King, Bumsoo Han, and John C Bischof."Evaluating Broader Impacts of Nanoscale Thermal Transport Research."Nanoscale Microscale Thermophys. Eng. 19 (2015) 127–165. DOI(link is external)

2014

Yang, Juekuan, Meng Shen, Yang Yang, William J Evans, Zhiyong Wei, Weiyu Chen, Alfred A Zinn, Yunfei Chen, Ravi S Prasher, Terry T Xu, Pawel Keblinski, and Deyu Li."Phonon Transport through Point Contacts between Graphitic Nanomaterials."Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 205901. DOI(link is external)
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(link is external)
Kaur, Sumanjeet, Nachiket Raravikar, Brett A Helms, Ravi S Prasher, and D. D Frank Ogletree."Enhanced thermal transport at covalently functionalized carbon nanotube array interfaces."Nature Communications 5 (2014) 3082. DOI(link is external)
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(link is external)
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).
Henry, Asegun, and Ravi S Prasher."The prospect of high temperature solid state energy conversion to reduce the cost of concentrated solar power."Energy Environ. Sci. 7 (2014) 1819–1828. DOI(link is external)

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(link is external)
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(link is external)
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(link is external)

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(link is external)
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(link is external)
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(link is external)
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(link is external)
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(link is external)
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(link is external)