Evelyn N. Wang

  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Collaborators

  • Prof. John G. Brisson, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Cullen Buie, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Gang Chen, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Carlos Hidrovo, UT Austin
  • Prof. Jeffrey Lang, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Tomas Palacios, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Marin Soljacic, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Carl V. Thompson, M.I.T.
  • Prof. Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley

Visiting Faculty

  • Prof. TieJun Zhang, China

Postdoctoral Associates

  • Martin Cleary
  • Ryan Enright
  • Xiansen Li
  • Teresa Peters
  • Rishi Raj
  • Sungwoo Yang

Graduate Students

  • Solomon Adera (ME)
  • Kevin Bagnall (ME)
  • David Bierman (ME)
  • Siyu Chen (ME)
  • Kuang- Han (Hank) Chu (ME)
  • Daniel Hanks (ME)
  • Tom Humplik (ME)
  • Arthur Kariya (ME)
  • Andrej Lenert (ME)
  • Nenad Miljkovic (ME)
  • Heena Mutha (ME)
  • Dan Preston (ME)
  • Rong Xiao (ME)
  • Yangying Zhu (ME)

Undergraduate Students

  • Kristyn Kadala (Aerospace)
  • Jean Sack (ME)

Support Staff

  • Lubi Barre, Administrative Assistant

Publications

(see drl.mit.edu for full listing)

K.-H. Chu, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Structured surfaces for enhanced pool boiling heat transfer,” Applied Physics Letters, 100(24), p. 241603-00, 2012.

A. Lenert, E.N. Wang, “Optimization of nanofluid volumetric receivers for solar thermal energy conversion,” Solar Energy, 86(1), p. 253-265, 2012.

M. McCarthy, K. Gerasopoulos, R. Enright, J.N. Culver, R. Ghodssi, E.N. Wang, “Biotemplated hierarchical surfaces and the role of dual length scales on the repellency of impacting droplets,” Applied Physics Letters, 100(263701), p. 1-5, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Liquid Freezing Dynamics on Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 134(8), p. 080902-080903, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Effect of Droplet Morphology on Growth Dynamics and Heat Transfer during Condensation on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Surfaces,” ACS Nano, 6(2), p. 1776-1785, 2012.

A. Veeraragavan, A. Lenert, B. Yilbas, S. Al-Dini, E.N. Wang, “Analytical model for the design of volumetric solar flow receivers,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55(4), p. 556-564, 2012.

S. Adera, R. Raj, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Evaporation-Induced Cassie Droplets on Superhydrophilic Microstructured Surfaces,” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, ICNMM2012, Rio Grande, PR, July 8-12, 2012.

R. Enright, N. Miljkovic, A. Al-Obeidi, C.V. Thompson, E.N. Wang, “Superhydrophobic Condensation: the Role of Energy Barriers and Size Scale,” ASME International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Rio Grande, PR, July 8-12, 2012.

H.A. Kariya, W.L. Staats, D.F. Hanks, T.B. Peters, M. Cleary, J.G. Brisson, E.N. Wang, “Scaling of the Performance of an Air-Cooled Heat Pipe with the Addition of Multiple Modular Condensers,” IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, San Diego, CA, May 30 – June 1, 2012.

H.J. Cho, S.C. Maroo, E.N. Wang, “Characterization of Lipid Membrane Properties for Tunable Electroporation,” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

R. Enright, N. Dou, N. Miljkovic, Y. Nam, E.N. Wang, “Condensation on Superhydrophobic Copper Oxide Nanostructures,” Proceedings of the 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

N. Miljkovic, R. Enright, E.N. Wang, “Growth Dynamics During Dropwise Condensation on Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012.

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