Phase Change
Professor Mihir Sen
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Research
- Capillary-tube boiling:
Journal publications
- Capillary Tube Boiling, M. Sen, in Experiments in Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics, (editor) R.A. Granger, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., pp. 127-134, 1994.
- Statistics of Boiling in a Capillary U-Tube, D.R. Kabele, M. Sen and P.F. Dunn, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 34-44, 1996.
- Dynamics of Boiling from a Short Capillary Tube, E. Ramos, P. Parmananda, G. Hernandez-Cruz and M. Sen, Experimental Heat Transfer, Vol. 10, pp. 273-290. 1997.
- Periodicity and Bifurcations in Capillary Tube Boiling with a Concentric Heating Wire, N. Acharya, M. Sen and E. Ramos, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp. 1425-1442, 2003.
- Two-phase flows and loops:
Journal publications
- A Steady-State Analysis for Variable Area One- and Two-Phase Thermosyphons, E. Ramos, M. Sen and C. Treviño, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 1711-1719, 1985.
- Two-Phase Natural Circulation in a Toroidal Loop, E. Manero, M. Sen and E. Ramos, Wärme- und Stoffübertragung, Vol. 21, pp. 41-49, 1987.
- Condensation:
Journal publications
- Heat Rate Predictions in Humid Air-Water Heat Exchangers Using Correlations and Neural Networks, A. Pacheco-Vega, G. Diaz, M. Sen, K.T. Yang and R.L. McClain, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 348-354, 2001.
- Solidification:
Journal publications
- Numerical Solution of the Stability Equation of a One-Dimensional Conductive System with Phase Change, R. Avila, M. Sen and J. Cervantes, Latin American Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 173-185, 1983.
- Solidification of a Finite Slab with Convective Cooling and Shrinkage, Z. Yang, M. Sen and S. Paolucci, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 27, pp. 733-762, 2003.
Theses and dissertations
- Master's theses
- Deterministic Chaos in Nucleate Boiling, N. Acharya, 1989.
- A Two-Dimensional Model for an Evaporative Falling Film with Deposition (Co-Director), M. Nunez, 1994.
- Analytical and Numerical Study of Solidification by Convective Cooling with Void Formation, Z. Yang, 1994.
- PhD dissertations
- Simulation of Compact Heat Exchangers using Global Regression and Soft Computing, A. Pacheco-Vega, 2002.