High-Performance, High-Efficiency Thermal Management Systems

• Advanced cooling for high-performance computing devices (GPUs, NPUs, and AI chips)

• Thermal management of data centers and xEV power electronics (IGBTs and power modules)

• Novel cooling solutions for high-heat-flux devices and compact heat exchangers

• Micro-channel heat sinks, spray cooling, and jet-impingement cooling techniques
  

• Gas turbine cooling technologies

Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer

• Flow boiling, flow condensation, and pool boiling
  

• Phase change heat transfer mechanisms
  

• Critical heat flux (CHF) and two-phase flow instabilities
  

• Gas-liquid and gas-oil multiphase flow

Flow Control

• Active flow control using functional materials
  

• Cavitation and flow instabilities

Modeling and Computation

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations
  

• Physics-based analytical modeling
  

• Data-driven optimization and machine learning