Spring 2025 seminar tour: Miami, Sweden, Japan, and Oregon
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This spring I had the chance to share UCLID’s work with a wide range of audiences in academia and industry:
- Miami University, Oxford, OH (Feb 11): “Recent Advances in Liquid-Vapor Phase Change: A Space Perspective”. Thanks to Prof. Andrew Sommers for hosting.
- Ericsson, Sweden (Feb 17): an invited talk to an industry audience. The thermal management questions that come up at telecom scale are a good reminder of why fundamental interface physics matters.
- Hokkaido University, Japan (May 1): “Controlling capillary flow in porous media”. Thanks to Prof. Yutaka Tabe for hosting.
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (May): “Emerging insights into liquid-vapor interfacial dynamics: probing fundamental assumptions and playing with surface tension”. Thanks to Prof. Andy Dong for hosting.
The common thread across these talks is that several “textbook” assumptions in phase change modeling (isothermal interfaces, equal evaporation and condensation coefficients, empirical tuning factors) don’t hold up once you look closely. Replacing them with physics-based models gives predictions that engineers can actually rely on. Thank you to all the hosts for the great discussions.