Kishan Bellur
10+ years of experience in phase change heat transfer, capillary phenomena, cryogenics and scientific computing
Principal Investigator
PhD Students
Amirhosein Sarchami
Porous Media, Two-Phase Flow, Thermal Management, Li-ion Battery, Optical Microscopy
Tahsin Enam
Multiphase flows, Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer
Ayaaz Yasin
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flows, Phase Change Modeling, Molecular Dynamics
MS Students
BS Students
Emmett Looman
Fluid Mechanics, Signal and Image Processing, Optics
Alumni
Manjeera Vinnakota
PhD Dissertation, "Design and Investigation of a Hydraulic Milli-Actuator for Minimally Invasive Medical Applications", 2024. Currently Project Manager at Ethicon (J&J MedTech).
Unmeelan Chakrabarti
PhD Dissertation, "A multiscale investigation of simplifying assumptions made during liquid-vapor phase change modeling", 2026. Currently Senior Mechanical Development Engineer at Virginia Transformer Corp.
Sandeepan Dasgupta
MS Thesis, "Optical Transmission through Sessile Water Droplets Undergoing Solidification, and the Effect of Hydrophobicity", 2024. Currently at IIT Bombay.
Tejas Mahajani
MS Thesis, "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Isothermal Bubbling in Shear-thinning Liquids", 2024. Currently at Johnson Controls.
William Cullen
MS Thesis, "Contactless Cleaning using Leidenfrost Droplets", 2025.
Ermiyas Lakew
MS Thesis, "Thin Film Evaporation Modeling of the Microlayer Region in a Dewetting Water Bubble", 2022. Currently R&D Test Engineer at FERNO.
Saaras Pakanati
Undergraduate researcher, 2024–2026, with 2 journal publications (1 first-author). Currently a PhD student at Rice University.
Denis Fulks
Sensor Design and Calibration, Control Systems, CAD Modeling, 3D Printing
Jon Scheckel
Undergraduate researcher, 2025–2026. 1819 Innovation Award winner.
Trevon Collins
Summer 2026 REU student from Tennessee Tech. Currently co-authoring a paper.