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Interfacial Transport Engineering Lab
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A lab that unravels how interfaces transport heat in boiling and condensation.
AboutAbout the lab
Unraveling the interfaces of boiling and condensation.
The Interfacial Transport Engineering Lab studies, from fundamentals to applications, the phenomena in which heat and mass are transported at the boundary (interface) between liquid and gas.
It aims to deepen understanding of the physics of boiling and condensation and to apply it to thermal management, which removes heat from systems ranging from computer CPUs to nuclear reactors.
The lab works on controlling bubble motion by finely processing surfaces and patterning wettability.
Key terms
- Boiling heat transfer
- The mechanism by which heat is carried away as bubbles form and detach when a liquid boils
- Thermal management
- Keeping equipment at an appropriate temperature by removing or controlling the heat it generates
- Bayesian optimization
- A method that searches for the best design by statistically choosing the next conditions to test based on the results of a small number of trials
NewsLab news
A doctoral student's paper was published in Applied Thermal Eng.
A doctoral student's paper was published in Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies heat transfer in phase change such as boiling and condensation using experiments, numerical simulation, and machine learning. By examining bubble behavior in detail, it links the findings to technologies for cooling devices that generate high heat.
*Illustrative imagePredicting boiling with data
The lab collects data on bubble motion through image recognition, object tracking, and numerical simulation. It is also developing lightweight simulation tools that represent bubble nucleation and coalescence without solving the fluid equations.
*Illustrative imageDesigning surfaces for efficient boiling with machine learning
For cooling applications such as data centers, the lab optimizes the design of surfaces patterned with regions of different wettability by combining experiments with Bayesian optimization, in order to improve heat transfer.
*Illustrative imageBubbles on surfaces with different wettability
Using numerical simulation validated against experiments, the lab investigates how a single bubble departs from a copper surface to which a water-repellent coating has been applied in dots.
*Illustrative imageMechanisms of multi-bubble dynamics
The lab uses numerical simulation to study the motion and interaction of multiple bubbles, closer to real boiling, and to clarify changes at the gas–liquid interface and local heat transfer.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Interfacial Transport Engineering Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Assistant ProfessorBiao Shen
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Water boiling in a pot on a stove” Tomwsulcer / CC0 (cropped)
- Predicting boiling with data: “Bubbles inside boiling water” Snehit Jamere / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing surfaces for efficient boiling with machine learning: “2023 Chłodzenie procesora be quiet! Dark Rock Top Flow (1)” Jacek Halicki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Bubbles on surfaces with different wettability: “Water droplets on stromanthe leaf” Louyiihn / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms of multi-bubble dynamics: “Kochendes wasser02” user:Markus Schweiss / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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