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)

Research & News The paper by PhD graduates Bara Cola and Jun Xu ... entitled "Contact mechanics and thermal conductance of carbon nanotube array interfaces" is among the most cited since 2009 in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.  Posted Mar 8, 2014, 3:59 PM by Tim Fisher PhD student Stephen Hodson ... has been named an IN-MaC Fellow by the Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (http://www.purdue.edu/in-mac/).  Posted Oct 17, 2013, 4:12 AM by Tim Fisher PhD student Stephen Hodson and graduate Dr. Baratunde Cola ... are co-inventors along with collaborators at the J. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India) of a newly issued patent, "Palladium Thiolate Bonding of Carbon Nanotubes," Patent #US8 ... Posted Sep 24, 2013, 8:21 AM by Tim Fisher Former postdoc Dr. Placidus Amama ... has joined the faculty of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University.  Posted Aug 13, 2013, 2:57 AM by Tim Fisher Professor Issam Mudawar ... was honored in several ways at the 2013 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. His work on flow boiling in small channels was highlighted in this video, as part of a ... Posted Jul 18, 2013, 10:23 AM by Tim Fisher PhD students Kim Saviers and Stephen Hodson... authored a paper (with Dr. James Salvador of GM and Linda Kasten of AFRL) for the 2012 IECEC Conference that was named the 2012 Best Aerospace Power Systems Student Paper ... Posted Jul 1, 2013, 7:33 PM by Tim Fisher PhD student Kim Saviers ... has been awarded the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship from the US Department of Energy. Posted Jun 14, 2013, 11:13 AM by Timothy Fisher Showing posts 1 - 7 of 16. 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 505: Intermediate Heat Transfer ME 503: Micro-and Nano-scale Energy Transfer Processes ME 595M: Computational Methods for Nanoscale Thermal Transport (experimental course, with J. Murthy) ME 605: Convection of Heat and Mass ME 606: Radiation Heat Transfer 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   Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic ChainsPhonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they servApr 04, 2006  14:06pmhttp://nanohub.org/resources/3985Tutorial 1: Thermal Transport Across Interfaces - PhononsJul 30, 2011  00:45amTutorial 2: Thermal Transport Across Interfaces - ElectronsAug 15, 2011  17:53pmView all my contributions → Powered by HUBzero Tools on nanoHUB   The Thermal Measurements DatabaseExperimental data for thermal materials is obtained using various test methods under a set of condiSep 13, 2011 14:10pmAtomistic Green's Function Method 1-D Atomic Chain SimulationCalculation of Thermal Conductance of an Atomic ChainApr 16, 2007 15:03pmhotSPICELinear thermal circuit simulation tool for both steady-state and transient problemsSep 01, 2011 17:30pmThermoelectric Generator Module with Convective Heat TransferElectrical power density and efficiency of a thermoelectric generator with convective heat transferJun 14, 2010 12:45pmIsotropic random fracture model for metal hydride powderMetal hydrides can be used to store hydrogen on-board fuel cell vehicles, but the process of fracturOct 03, 2011 13:50pmView all my contributions → Powered by HUBzero

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 will soon transition into a self-paced mode without a registration fee (i.e., free).

All students who make specific inquiries based on the information above should expect to receive a reply, but responses during peak times might be delayed because of the high volume of inquiries.

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.