Heat Transfer, Combustion and Energy Systems

Jaeyeon Lee (B.S. Seoul National University, M.S. Carnegie-Mellon University, Ph.D. Georgia Tech), Dr. Ben Zinn, and Tom Wilson (B.S./M.S. Georgia Tech) are investigating active control of combustion instabilities in missiles and liquid rockets.

The Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems Research Group is involved in a wide range of exciting projects covering both basic and applied research. Fundamental research is conducted by faculty and their graduate students in the areas of ultra high heat flux cooling systems, microscale heat transfer, single and two-phase phenomena in microchannels, two-phase flow instabilities, multi-phase flow of nonnewtonian fluids, droplet and spray cooling, evaporation and condensation, electrohydrodynamic enhancement of heat and mass transfer, combustion instabilities, reactive flows, and pulse combustion. Among the applied research projects currently underway are: electronic components cooling, drying of porous media such as textile products and soils, design and performance optimization of steam conditioning equipment, heat pipe technology, thermally activated and sorption heat pumps, solid oxide fuel cells, molten carbonate fuel cells, commercial and residential heating and cooling systems, and system studies of high performance, low emission jet engines.


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Research Facilities

  • Data Center Thermal Management Laboratory
  • Fourier Transaform Infrared Spectrometer Laboratory
  • Institute for Paper Science and Technology Water Removal Laboratory
  • J. Erskine Love Jr. Manufacturing Building
    (Faculty and graduate student offices and labs)
  • Microelectronics Thermal Management Laboratory
  • Microscale Thermal Radiation Laboratory
  • Microthermal Systems Laboratory
  • Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory
  • Three-Axis Automated Scatterometer Laboratory
 

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