E-mail: Deborah.Pence@oregonstate.edu

· Bio-inspired fractal-like branching channel networks

· 3-D temperature profiles of single phase flow in microchannels

· High-speed high resolution imaging of  two-phase flow in microchannels

· Numerical optimization of fractal-like branching networks

Younghoon Kwak uses

micro-PIV methods  to determine bubble slip velocities.

Dr. Pence found the answer to a heat transfer problem in nature. 

Kent Enfield is working on a MATLAB program to optimize the fractal-like geometry for heat transfer applications.

 

Rebecca Cullion is working to quantify local void fraction in the fractal-like device using a Phantom v5.0 high speed camera.

Greg Mouchka uses

confocal microscopy and a dual dye configuration to

generate 3-D temperature profiles.

· Micro-PIV of single and two-phase flow in fractal-like branching network