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News and highlights 2-21-2020 Congratulation to Shaddi, who won the Outstanding Undergraduate Student
Award of Mechanical Engineering in National E-Week Banquet!
1-20-2020 Welcome Mathew Farias to join
MTL!
1-13-2020 Welcome Keandra Garza to join MTL!
1-6-2020 Dr. Xu’s paper “Energy and
exergy analysis of a novel multiple-effect vapor chamber distillation system
for high-salinity wastewater treatment” published on Desalination and water treatment.
12-14-2019 Aibek Bekkulov and Dr. Xu’s paper “Experimental
study of condensation in a thermoacoustic cooler with various 3D printed
regenerators using water vapor as the working fluid”
published on ASME Journal of Energy Resource Technologies.
12-4-2019 Jie Qu
and Dr. Xu’s paper “Experimental study of evaporation
and crystallization of brine droplets under different temperatures and
humidity levels” published on International Communication
of Heat and Mass Transfer.
11-20-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Novel Silica Filled Deep Eutectic
Solvent Based Nanofluids for Energy Transportation”
published on ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
9-6-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Experimental Study of a Lift-Type
Wave Energy Converter Rotor in a Freewheeling Mode”
published on Journal of Energy Resources Technology.
8-21-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Experimental and numerical
investigation on effects of cathode flow field configurations in an
air-breathing high-temperature PEMFC” published on International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy.
7-19-2019 Congratulations! Shaddi
and Eric won the Engaged Scholar Award from UTRGV. 7-17-2019 Jie Qu presented his research work at ASME 2019 Summer
Heat Transfer Conference.
7-16-2019 Aibek and Dr. Xu’s conference paper “Experimental study
of condensation in different 3D printed regenerators in a thermal-driven
thermoacoustic cooler” won the Third Place Award of Best Paper in ASME 2019 13th International
Conference on Energy Sustainability in Bellevue, WA.
5-21-2019 Dr.
Xu’s paper “Selective Laser
Melting of Mechanically Alloyed Metastable Al5Fe2 Powders”
published on Journal of Manufacturing
Science and Engineering. 5-9-2019 Dr.
Xu’s paper “Numerical study
on a water cooling system for prismatic LiFePO4 batteries
at abused operating conditions” published on Applied Energy. 4-23-2019 Aibek Bekkulov successfully defended his Master Thesis!
3-20-2019 Welcome Eric to join MTL!
3-4-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “A novel shape-stabilization
strategy for phase change thermal energy storage”
published on J. Mater. Chem. A.
2-1-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Roles of Oxygen
Vacancies and pH Induced Size Changes on Photo- and Radioluminescence
of Undoped and Eu3+-Doped La2Zr2O7 Nanoparticles” published on Journal
of Luminescence. 1-16-2019 Welcome Shaddi to
join MTL! 1-10-2019 Congratulations! Dexter and Julio won the
Engaged Scholar Award from UTRGV. 1-8-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Parametric Study
and Sensitivity Analysis of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System in
Concentrated Solar Power Plants”
published on ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 1-2-2019 Dr. Xu’s paper “Questions and
current understanding about solar chimney power plant: A review” published on Energy Conversion and Management. 1-1-2019 Welcome back Jie Qu
for one year visiting program supported by CSC! 12-12-2018 Congratulations! Dr. Xu won NVIDIA GPU
grant, we will install the GPU soon in MTL. 11-14-2018 Welcome Ph.D. candidate Jie
Lei, from Nanchang University to visit MTL! 11-15-2018 Aibek presented
his research work in ASME IMECE 2018.
10-20-2019 Congratulations! Aibek
Bekkulov the Graduate Student Travel Award for ASME
IMECE 2018. 10-10-2018 Welcome Ph.D. candidate Wenlin
Ye, from Nanchang University to visit MTL! 9-26-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “An improved
pseudopotential multi-relaxation-time Lattice Boltzmann model for binary
droplets collision with large density ratio”
published on Fluid Dynamics Research. 9-23-2018 4-15-2018 Dr. Xu received the travel award
from Faculty Travel Support Program at UTRGV for ASME IMECE 2018. 9-20-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “Stochastic
modeling of asphaltenes deposition and prediction of its influence on
friction pressure drop” published on Petroleum
Science and Technology. 9-11-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “Reduced-scale
experimental model and numerical investigations to buoyance-driven natural
ventilation in a large space building”
published on Energy Conversion and Management. 9-4-2018 Dr. Xu was awarded as Outstanding
Reviewer for Applied Energy (IF=7.9), Renewable
Energy (IF=4.9), Energy (IF=4.968), International Journal of Heat and Mass
Transfer (IF=3.891), Energy Conversion and Management (IF=6.377), Journal of
Cleaner Production (IF=5.651). 8-24-2018 Dr. Xu’s review paper “Application of
phase change materials for thermal energy storage in concentrated solar
thermal power plants: a review to recent developments” in Applied Energy was awarded as “2015-2016 Highly Cited Review Paper” in ICAE 2018 conference.
6-4-2017 Welcome Ph.D. candidate Jie
Qu, from China University of Mining Technology, to visit MTL in the summer! 5-17-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “Simulation of
droplet impacting a square solid obstacle in microchannel with different
wettability by using high density ratio pseudopotential
multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM)” published on Canadian Journal of Physics. 5-9-2018 Congratulations! Dexter won the fellowship for
2018 NSF LSAMP Summer Research Academy. 5-14-2018 Welcome Dexter and Julio to join MTL! 5-4-2018 Dean Dr. Ala Qubbaj
visited Community Waste Water Treatment senior design team (Thomas, Mar,
Jeremy and Robert)
4-15-2018 Dr. Xu received the travel award from Faculty
Travel Support Program at UTRGV for ASME Power & Energy 2018 Conference. 3-18-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “Multiple-Relaxation-Time
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Volumetric
Solar Receivers” published on Journal of Energy Resource
Technologies. 3-17-2018 Hermes’s second paper “Parametric study
of cascade latent heat thermal energy storage (CLHTES) system in Concentrated
Solar Power (CSP) plants” published on
Journal of the Energy Institute. 2-7-2018 Dr. Xu’s paper “Numerical analysis
of a multi-channel active cooling system for densely packed concentrating
photovoltaic cells” published on Energy Conversion and
Management. 1-1-2018 Congratulations! Luis won the
Engaged Scholar Award from UTRGV. 12-11-2017 Andrew and his senior design
team at the SDII final poster session!
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