Overview Welcome to our group's home page. We work on a broad range of problems, primarily involving transport processes by electrons, phonons, photons, and fluids. We seek to solve problems with high importance to applications in energy transport, conversion, and storage, that are relevant to major industrial segments (aerospace, micro/nanoelectronics, sensors).Some topics and methods of our research are summarized in the following graphic. - Tim Fisher   James G. Dwyer Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University   (Google Scholar Profile, Frontiers Profile, LinkedIn Profile)

Research & News A new industry research consortium ... has launched in conjunction with the Center for Integrated Thermal Management of Aerospace Vehicles (CITMAV). Read about it here.  Posted by Tim Fisher Undergraduate student Yide Wang ... has been selected to receive the 2015 Perry Undergraduate Research Scholarship from Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering. Yide's research involves thermo-mechanical modeling of carbon nanotube arrays, and ... Posted Feb 5, 2015, 1:58 PM by Tim Fisher PhD student Sridhar Sadasivam ...posted his latest work to arXiv on thermal coupling between electrons and phonons across a metal-semiconductor interface. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. Umesh Waghmare of JNCASR ... Posted Jan 18, 2015, 7:39 AM by Tim Fisher PhD graduate Dr. Patrick McCarthy ... was the lead author of our group's first 'open access' article in the Frontiers project, written with collaborator Prof. Ron Reifenberger. This publishing model is quite interesting, as the ... Posted Jan 8, 2015, 8:36 PM by Tim Fisher PhD graduate Dr. Kyle Smith ... has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Science and Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Posted Jun 20, 2014, 10:19 AM by Tim Fisher PhD graduate Dr. Jonathan Claussen ... has accepted an Assistant Professor position in Iowa State University's Mechanical Engineering department. Posted Jun 4, 2014, 2:22 PM by Tim Fisher PhD graduate Dr. Aaron Franklin ... has accepted an Associate Professor position in Duke University's ECE department. Posted Jun 4, 2014, 2:22 PM by Tim Fisher Showing posts 1 - 7 of 24. View more » Centers & Groups Air Force Research Lab, Materials & Manufacturing Directorate Birck Nanotechnology Center India-US Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy International Centre for Materials Science (Bangalore, India) Network for Computational Nanotechnology NNSA Center for Prediction, Reliability, Integrity, and Survivability of Microsystems Purdue Heat Transfer Area Online Courses, Lectures, and Tools Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, a nanoHUB-U short course Many other nanoHUB-U courses are online; for more information visit the nanoHUB-U page. ME 200: Thermodynamics ME 315: Heat and Mass Transfer ME 503: Micro-and Nano-scale Energy Transfer Processes ME 505: Intermediate Heat Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 595M: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Thermal Transport (experimental course, with J. Murthy) ME 605: Convection of Heat and Mass (via Blackboard) ME 606: Radiation Heat Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 608: Numerical Numerical Methods in Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer (via Blackboard) ME 697R: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Energy Transport (with X. Ruan and J. Murthy) JF 206: Heat Transport: From Atoms to Continuum (with K.R. Sreenivas, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) Now on nanoHUB.org Jamming of Soft Frictionless Spheres, a tool to predict granular microstructure. Course on "Heat Transport: From Atoms to Continuum," given at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Aug. 2009 HotSpice, thermal circuit simulation tool A Bottom-up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials Thermoelectric generator module with convective heat transfer 2010 NCN Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up Report of the Joint India-US Workshop on Scalable Nanomaterials for Enhanced Energy Transport, Conversion, and Efficiency 1D atomic chain phonon simulator using atomistic Green's functions Presentation/podcast on understanding phonons using 1D atomic chains Presentation/podcast on electron emission from carbon nanomaterials Lectures on nanoHUB Thermal Transport across Interfaces (I-phonons) Thermal Transport across Interfaces (II-electrons) A Bottom-Up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains  Tools on nanoHUB Jamming of Soft Frictionless Spheres hotSPICE Isotropic Random Fracture Model Thermal Measurements Database Thermoelectric Generator Atomistic Green's Function Method for 1-D Atomic Chains

Information for Prospective Students

Our research group is characterized by a passion for discovering, explaining, and developing new knowledge through persistent effort intelligently applied. Students seeking a research position with us are encouraged to review the admission guidelines provided by Purdue’s Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program. Qualified students should then review the other pages of this website to identify specific research topics of mutual interest. These topics should be highlighted in any correspondence and in application materials. Interested students would also benefit from studying the materials contained in my online nanoHUB-U course, Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, which can be taken in self-paced mode without a registration fee (i.e., free).

India-US Joint Networked Centre

I also serve as an Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Materials Science (ICMS), a companion organization to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore, India. A new Joint Networked Centre on Nanomaterials for Energy established among partners JNCASR, Purdue, and GE Global Research (Bangalore) fosters ongoing collaborative research and exchanges of students and postdocs between ICMS/JNCASR, GE and the Birck Nanotechnology Center. The Joint Centre is sponsored by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. This effort seeks to harness the promising potential ofnanomaterials to address global energy challenges. For examples of the types of activities involved, please refer to a recent review paper, a workshop report posted on nanoHUB, and the Joint Centre's website. To become an exchange participant, please complete the online application.