Publications

X Author: Todd P Otanicar

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.

2014

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).

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
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

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
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

Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Ronald J Adrian, Todd P Otanicar, and Ravi S Prasher."Experimental Results for Light-Induced Boiling in Water-Based Graphite Nanoparticle Suspensions."ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences (2009). DOI
Otanicar, Todd P, Robert A Taylor, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Impact of Size and Scattering Mode on the Optimal Solar Absorbing Nanofluid."ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences (2009) 791–796. DOI
Tao, Y, C Ma, Todd P Otanicar, Patrick E Phelan, Gary Rosengarten, and Ravi S Prasher."Experimental Testing and Modeling of a Micro Solar Thermal Collector with Direct Absorption Nanofluids." (2009) 1 - 7. DOI
Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Todd P Otanicar, Ronald J Adrian, and Ravi S Prasher."Vapor generation in a nanoparticle liquid suspension using a focused, continuous laser."Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 (2009) 161907. DOI