No. 04UCF Interfacial Transport Lab2025 to Present
Pulsating Heat Pipe Research
Studying passive two-phase cooling devices that move heat through oscillating fluid, with no pump.
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Moving heat without a pump
A pulsating heat pipe (PHP) is a looped tube partly filled with a working fluid. Heat at one end boils the fluid, and the resulting pressure differences push oscillating slugs of liquid and plugs of vapor that carry heat to the cool end, entirely passively.
My work focuses on a single-loop aluminum prototype: understanding how efficiently and how predictably it moves heat across different flow conditions.
Imaging and data acquisition setupTest apparatusThe lab
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Simulation, hardware, and data
CFD in ANSYS of the internal two-phase flow, validating simulated thermal performance against experimental prototype results.
SolidWorks exploded-view assemblies, and aluminum test prototypes fabricated alongside UCF machinists.
Debugged Python scripts for oscillation data visualization and thermal performance analysis.
Co-authored a research paper on two-phase passive cooling.
