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Congratulations to Madhumitha, and the entire team for a new publication in Applied Thermal Engineering. “Online, quasi-real-time analysis of high-resolution, infrared, boiling heat transfer investigations using artificial neural networks” presents a machine learning methodology that can be used online and quasi-real-time…

Congratulations to Limiao and Jee, and the entire team for a new publication in Physical Review Letters.  “Percolative Scale-Free Behavior in the Boiling Crisis” presents a new idea supported by original experimental findings and a theoretical model: the boiling crisis…

Congratulations to Chi for the Best Poster Award at the 2019 NSE Graduate Students Expo. Chi’s poster was titled “Can Nano-structures Enhance Critical Heat Flux in Pressurized Water Reactors and Save Polar Bears and Penguins?”,  and Congratulations to Artyom for his…

Congratulations to Andrew et al. on this publication. Their work elucidated mechanisms of subcooled flow boiling heat transfer and departure from nucleate boiling using high-resolution infrared diagnostics. Read the paper here.

Chi has received the 2018 HO-CHING and HAN-CHING FUND award. “Receiving this award is a great honor for me. It shows me how the MIT community appreciates my devotion to study and research. Also, it encourages me to work even…

We hosted, in collaboration with the CFD group of Prof. Baglietto, the first Multiphase Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Day in NSE, with distinguished speakers from Europe and South America: Profs. John Thome (EPFL, Suisse), Gherhardt Ribatski (USP, Brazil), Dominique…

Madhumitha has been awarded the Faculty for the Future Fellowship by the Schlumberger Foundation for the academic year 2018-19. “The need of the century is to reduce carbon emissions and replace fossil fuels with cleaner and safer energy sources. My…

Artyom has won the Young Professional Award at the 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-17) for his work on transient boiling heat transfer. In his paper entitled “Transient Flow Boiling and CHF under Exponentially Escalating Heat…

Our team has won the best paper award at the NURETH-17 conference for the paper titled “Mechanistic Prediction of Wickability and CHF Enhancement on Micro- and Nano-Engineered Surfaces”. The research explored surface engineering solutions to enhance the thermal-hydraulics performance of…