Faculty

Michael K.Jensen, Professor

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Research Center Affiliations:

General Areas of Research:

· Solar Energy
· Energy
· Fluid Mechanics
· Fuel Cells
· Sustainability
· Heat Transfer
· Energy Systems/Multiphase Phenomena
· Energy Conversion

Research Activities:


Michael Jensen's research interests have been directed toward convective single and two-phase heat transfer and the associated fluid flow with the emphasis on these processes in heat exchangers. This research has been experimentally based, but numerical analysis using sophisticated computational fluid dynamics codes that can handle many general situations has been and is being used to complement the experimental work and to suggest additional avenues for investigation. Recent research has involved boiling and two-phase flow in microchannels (as applied to electronic cooling), transport processes in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, development of a building integrated photovoltaic system, and the development of a thermal management approach for distributed, large-scale, high-power electronic systems.