EV Battery Cooling Research

Research on a novel EV battery cooling method, presented at the UCSB CSEP Colloquium Poster Session in August 2023.

The November 19, 2024 résumé describes the undergraduate research at the UCSB Thermofluid Energy Research Laboratory (April 2023 – September 2023) this way:

• CNC milled and 3D printed a fluid boiling fixture for a NASA ISS experiment, analyzing the role of surface structures on flow boiling instabilities
• Researched and presented the use of vapor chambers, which utilize liquid-gas phase change, as a heat spreader for EV battery thermal management
• Characterizing heat pipe thermal gradients and thermal conductivities using custom built test bench