Research at MPFHL is diverse. The impact of micro/nano-scale features on boiling heat transfer, development of non-linear models by application of chaos theoretic techniques for characterizing the underlying coupled hydrodynamic and thermal mechanisms in boiling, applying dip-pen nanolithography to deposit metallic salts with <100 nm resolution (low temperature nano-synthesis), sensing of explosives, spray cooling, micro-fluidics for genomic assays involving both fabrication using micro-fabrication techniques and using CFD codes for design optimization are some of the areas that we are currently working on. Analysis software like ANSYS, CFD-ACE+, STAR-CCM+ and FLUENT are commonly used for design optimization. Modeling software like AutoCad, GAMBIT, Solidworks etc are used extensively for pre-processing.

A synopsis of research activities in our research group is provided below:

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Additionally, the links below will give an overview of the ongoing research in Multi-Phase flow and heat transfer Lab:

1. Boiling.
2. Microfluidics.
3. Nanolithography.
4. MEMS.
5. Explosive sensing.
6. Nanofluids.
7. Solar Energy Storage.
8. Marine Robotic Vechicles .