Publications

X Term: Thermal Energy Group

2013

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
Gur, Ilan, Karma Sawyer, and Ravi S Prasher."Engineering. Searching for a better thermal battery."Science 335 (2012) 1454–1455. DOI

2011

Yang, Juekuan, Yang Yang, Scott W Waltermire, Xiaoxia Wu, Haitao Zhang, Timothy Gutu, Youfei Jiang, Yunfei Chen, Alfred A Zinn, Ravi S Prasher, Terry T Xu, and Deyu Li."Enhanced and switchable nanoscale thermal conduction due to van der Waals interfaces."Nat. Nanotechnol. 7 (2011) 91. DOI
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
Prasher, Ravi S."Method for cooling an integrated circuit die with coolant flow in a microchannel and a thin film thermoelectric cooling device in the microchannel." (2011).
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
Zhang, T, J T Wen, Y Peles, T Tong, J Chang, Ravi S Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Micro-thermal-fluid transient analysis and active control for two-phase microelectronics cooling."2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (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
Zhang, Tiejun, Yoav Peles, John T Wen, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Ravi S Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Analysis and active control of pressure-drop flow instabilities in boiling microchannel systems."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53 (2010) 2347–2360. 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
Prasher, Ravi S."Materials science. Graphene spreads the heat."Science 328 (2010) 185–186. DOI

2009

Prasher, Ravi S."Cooling an integrated circuit die with coolant flow in a microchannel and a thin film thermoelectric cooling device in the microchannel." (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