RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
Heat transfer for sustainable systems.
Research in geothermal energy, thermal storage, efficient HVAC and fluid mechanics—from individual heat exchangers to district-scale infrastructure.
District energy & low-energy buildings
District energy for future smart grids
Geothermal heat pumps, underground thermal storage and renewable energy integration.
Campus-scale district cooling
A district cooling concept for large campus energy systems.
Nearly zero-energy HVAC
Integrating geothermal energy, solar thermal and desiccant systems.
Shallow geothermal heat pumps
Ground-source heating and cooling system design and investigation.
Ground heat exchange & sustainable agriculture
Foundation-integrated earth-air heat exchange
Groundwater-based thermal energy storage and building-integrated heat exchange.
Water-channel-integrated earth-air heat exchange
Groundwater use and air preconditioning for agricultural greenhouses.
Renewable energy for plant factories
Hybrid solar-wind and shallow geothermal systems for a net-zero-energy concept.
Ground heat exchangers for LED cooling
Investigating helical ground heat exchange for high-power LEDs.
Thermal efficiency & fluid dynamics
Energy-efficient ice making
Experimental analysis of serpentine-tube ice maker performance.
Oscillatory flow in porous media
Mass transfer and species separation in complex flow systems.
Droplets bouncing on a soap film
Numerical analysis of fluid interfaces and chaotic droplet motion.