7/28/2023
The most recent additions to TREE Lab include postdoc Durga Ghosh this April, PhD student Rebecca Lentz this June, and postdoc Fangqi Chen this July. See more about each member of the lab on the Our Team page. Warm welcome to all of them.
TREE Lab gives 6 talks @ ASME ES/SHTC 2023
7/10/2023
Bingjia, Brandon, Bryan, Mike, Rachel, and Zijie each gave a talk about their current research at the 2023 American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Energy Sustainability / Summer Heat Transfer Conference, which took place in Washington DC. Rohini served as a conference organizer and led a new Lighting Talks session!
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Good vibes at Top of the Park
6/14/2023
The TREE Lab brought their dance on to the Ann Arbor summer festival!
Zijie’s paper is published in IJHMT
6/8/2023
Zijie’s paper entitled, “Radiative view factor correlations in particulate media from ray tracing simulations and data-driven modeling” was published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (IJHMT). This work developed the correlations for particle-particle and particle-wall radiative view factors, which are physically interpretable while accounting for shading effects. These correlations are Continue Reading »
Rohini wins ASME award in heat transfer
5/18/2023
Rohini has been awarded the 2023 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer “for outstanding early-career contributions to the application of radiative heat transfer science to solar thermal and thermochemical technologies.” Read more about the announcement here.
TREE Lab narrowly survives escape room
5/2/2023
Science communication outreach
4/15/2023
Bryan, Rachel, and Zijie presented demonstrations explaining their research in coordination with the UMich Museum of Natural History Science Communication Fellowship program. As a part of this program, fellows create an activity to engage the public at local events. Bryan discussed house heating using thermochemical energy storage, Zijie showed how concentrated sunlight can create Continue Reading »
Mike & Rachel @ 3 Minute Thesis
3/31/2023
Mike and Rachel were selected as finalists for the ME department’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. They were tasked with presenting their research with one slide and a strict three minute time limit. Rachel was the winner of the People’s Choice award, good for a prize of $1,100!
Zijie presents at MICDE Symposium
3/24/2023
Zijie gave a poster presentation entitled, “Modeling Multimode Heat Transfer with Temperature Dependent Thermophysical Properties for Granular Flows” in the MICDE’s 2023 annual symposium: Emerging and Future Paradigms for High Performance Computing.
Luisa’s & Rachel’s paper published in ACS Catalysis
3/13/2023
Luisa and Rachel’s paper entitled, “Combined Effects of Concentration, pH, and Polycrystalline Copper Surfaces on Electrocatalytic Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity and Selectivity” was recently published in ACS Catalysis! The paper documents the faradaic efficiency of nitrate reduction to ammonia at different pH and concentration with a copper electrode, with applications to wastewater treatment. Trial to trial Continue Reading »