Technical Papers and Presentations

Radial fins are widely used in industrial applications to enhance heat transfer. Exact solutions are available for radial fins of simple profiles such as rectangular, concave and convex parabolic, hyperbolic and triangular. However, such solutions may be cumbersome for use in everyday ... Read More

With the anticipated effects of global climate change upon us, induced by egregious CO2 emissions, it is imperative to implement technologies to close the carbon cycle. One potential technique to do this is storing the energy from intermittent sources (e.g. solar, wind, hydro) in the ... Read More

We will present a study of our attempt to solve the Paraxial Wave Equation to simulate propagation of various laser beams in vacuum as well as in a turbulent medium. Our approach is to explore the suite of partial differential equation solvers in COMSOL® and cast our problem as an ... Read More

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model using low-energy neutrons requires, among other things, very precise transport and manipulation of the neutron spin. In this talk some examples of coil design for stringent magnetic field uniformity requirements and complicated geometries ... Read More

While electrostatic actuators feature prominently among the most widely employed classes of actuators for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), conventional embodiments of these devices (e.g., parallel plate structures) notoriously suffer from several significant drawbacks. Most ... Read More

In recent years, with the rise of quantum optical technologies, there has been a spurring research interest growing on single-photon emitters (SPE). To date, the focus in engineering improved SPE has been mainly towards better enhancement overlooking the tenuous manufacturing process ... Read More

Metamaterials are composites of subwavelength structures that can be engineered to affect the propagation of a wave in specific ways as it travels through the material. While metamaterials can be used with any type of wave, they are most commonly found in electromagnetic waves. However, ... Read More

As post-LHC particle accelerators of higher energy become prohibitively expensive, physisicists are turning to precision low-energy measurements of fundamental symmetries as an avenue for the discovery of new physics. A common requirement of many of these experiments is precision ... Read More

Our group developed an experimental millimetric capsule intended to release chemicals or drugs. The delivery mechanism of such device relies on the thermal expansion of carbon-elastomer composites which deform upon irradiation of light supplied by a Laser diode through an optical fiber. ... Read More

In this work we report on an investigation of the effect of the magnetic particles size on the effective macroscopic behavior of magnetorheological elastomers (MREs). MREs are a class of smart materials known for their tunable deformation. They are composite materials which consist of ... Read More