UNM Regents’ Professor of Chemical and Nuclear, and Mechanical Engineering Mohamed S. El-Genk was the keynote speaker for the 5th Annual European Thermal-Science Conference, Eurotherm 2008, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands last week. El-Genk spoke on enhanced boiling of dielectric liquids on copper nanodendrites, porous graphite and macro-structured copper surfaces.
The speech was based on research done by Jack L. Parker and Amir F. Ali, research assistants with the UNM Institute of Space and Nuclear Power, who are working on their doctoral degrees with El-Genk their faculty advisor. El-Genk says the research has a direct application to immersion cooling of high power computer chips.
In addition to the keynote speech, El-Genk chaired a technical session and gave two additional presentations of the results of recent research conducted at UNM-ISNPS on boiling heat transfer on micro-structured surfaces and on liquid flow in micro-tubes and micro-channels.
The latter has applications to the design and optimization of Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems, micro-sensors, micro-satellites and biomedical engineering, and is based on the ongoing dissertation research of UNM-INSPS research assistant In-Hwan Yang with El-Genk, his faculty advisor.
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