Projects
Research from my undergrad, Master's, PhD and postdoc, plus a few side projects.
Thermals
- Membrane-Assisted Phase-Change Heat SinkA cooling paradigm delivering up to 2 kW/cm² and a 10x reduction in thermal resistance; led from TRL 3 to TRL 6.
- Physics of Critical Heat FluxShowed the evaporation momentum limit is 3–4x higher than a century of theory assumed; 6x increase in critical heat flux.
Fluids
- Bursting of Underwater Oil DropsThe mechanisms that decide whether a drop rising to the surface spreads, fragments, or stays intact.
- Drop Impact on Sublimating SurfacesHow freezing from below delays fragmentation and suppresses rebound of impacting drops.
- Coalescence & Spreading of Oil Drops on WaterScaling laws that predict whether an oil drop merges or spreads on water, matching experiments with R² = 0.99.
Misc
- Drop Coalescence SimulationAxisymmetric volume-of-fluid simulation of a drop merging into a pool, built on Basilisk.
- Optimizing Guide Rods of an Automotive Head RestraintFEA-optimized head-restraint guide rods, cutting peak crash-load stress by 42% to reduce whiplash risk.