Payton successfully presented his Masters thesis titled “A Performance and Model Complexity Study of a Phase Change Material Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger”. Congratulations Payton! He will continue working on building HVAC systems work as he moves on to his Ph.D. work.
Tyler Lee and Sage Slater recently joined our group as MS research students. Tyler will be developing new modeling methods for annular two phase flows, and Sage will be exploring how surface properties impact the flow of thin liquid films. Welcome Sage and Tyler!
Jack presented his work on natural convection in liquid PCM during melting at the 2025 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Westminster, CO.
Dr. Mahvi and Joe Farrell presented some of our work on annular two-phase flow at the Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Gordon Research Conference in January.