Publications

2021


Balcom, P., Cabrera, J.M., and Carey, V. P. “Extended exergy sustainability analysis comparing environmental impacts of disposal methods for waste plastic roof tiles in Uganda.” Development Engineering. 2021; 6:100068,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2021.100068

Njike, UT, Cabrera, S, McClure, ER, & Carey, VP. “Use of Machine Learning Tools to Assess Surface Dryout During Nucleate and Transition Boiling on Surfaces With Different Wetting and Substrate Properties.” Proceedings of the ASME 2021 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2021 15th International Conference on Energy SustainabilityASME 2021 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Virtual, Online. June 16–18, 2021.

McClure, ER, & Carey, VP. “Determining Parametric Effects for Droplet Evaporation on Nanoporous Superhydrophillic Surfaces Using Machine Learning Techniques.” Proceedings of the ASME 2021 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2021 15th International Conference on Energy SustainabilityASME 2021 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Virtual, Online. June 16–18, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2021-63618

Gagnon, L., Carey, V. P., and Fernandez-Pello, C. “Using an Artificial Neural Network to Predict Flame Spread Across Electrical Wires.” ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. September 2021; 143(9): 092305. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050816

McClure, E. R., and Carey, V. P. “Genetic Algorithm and Deep Learning to Explore Parametric Trends in Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer Data.” ASME. J. Heat Transfer. December 2021; 143(12): 121602. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052435

Helmns, D., Carey, V. P., Kumar, N., Banerjee, D., Muley, A., and Stoia, M.  “Comparison of Model Predictions and Performance Test Data for a Prototype Thermal Energy Storage Module.” ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. February 2021; 143(2): 022001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4047607

Helmns, D.; Blum, D.H.; Dutton, S.M.; Carey, V.P. Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica. Energies 2021, 14, 194. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010194

2020


Gagnon, L., Helmns, D., and Carey, V. P.  “Multiscale Modeling of Power Plant Performance Enhancement Utilizing Asynchronous Cooling With Thermal Energy Storage.” ASME. J. Heat Transfer. May 2020; 142(5): 052905. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046773

Balcom, P., and Carey, V. P. “Exergy-Based Sustainability Analysis for Tile Production From Waste Plastics in Uganda.” ASME. J. Energy Resour. Technol. May 2020; 142(5): 050905. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045540

McClure, Emma R., and Van P. Carey. “Nanoscale and Macroscale Effects of Mineral Deposition During Water Evaporation on Nanoporous Surfaces.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.23 (2020): 26350-26359.

McClure, ER, & Carey, VP. “Use of Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning to Explore Parametric Trends in Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer Data.” Proceedings of the ASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2020 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2020 18th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and MinichannelsASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Virtual, Online. July 13–15, 2020. V001T16A004. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2020-9077

Cabrera, S, & Carey, VP. “Exploration of ZnO Nanostructure Growth on Various Metal Substrates for Enhancement of Surface Wettability and Evaporation Processes.” Proceedings of the ASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2020 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2020 18th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and MinichannelsASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Virtual, Online. July 13–15, 2020. V001T16A005. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2020-9114

Cooney, AY, & Carey, VP. “Modeling Nanobubble Interactions and Behavior Using Multiphase Lattice Boltzman Methods.” Proceedings of the ASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2020 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME 2020 18th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and MinichannelsASME 2020 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Virtual, Online. July 13–15, 2020. V001T16A008. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2020-9051

2019


Wemp, Claire K., and Van P. Carey. “Heat transport for evaporating droplets on superhydrophilic, thin, nanoporous layers.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 132 (2019): 34-51.

Cabrera, S, & Carey, VP. “Comparison of Droplet Evaporation and Nucleate Boiling Mechanisms on Nanoporous Superhydrophilic Surfaces.” Proceedings of the ASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2019 13th International Conference on Energy SustainabilityASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Bellevue, Washington, USA. July 14–17, 2019. V001T13A009. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2019-3539

Cooney, AY, McClure, ER, Cabrera, S, & Carey, VP. “Separating Wickability and Wetting Effects During Water Droplet Evaporation on Superhydrophilic Nanoporous Surfaces.” Proceedings of the ASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2019 13th International Conference on Energy SustainabilityASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Bellevue, Washington, USA. July 14–17, 2019. V001T13A010. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2019-3548

McClure, ER, & Carey, VP. “Droplet Spreading and Evaporation on Nanoporous Superhydrophilic Surfaces: Effects of Impact Parameters.” Proceedings of the ASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2019 13th International Conference on Energy SustainabilityASME 2019 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Bellevue, Washington, USA. July 14–17, 2019. V001T13A006. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2019-3510

2018


Carey, VP, Wemp, CK, McClure, ER, & Cabrera, S. “Mechanism Interaction During Droplet Evaporation on Nanostructured Hydrophilic Surfaces.” Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and ExpositionVolume 8A: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. November 9–15, 2018. V08AT10A029. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2018-87991

Theroff, ZM, Helmns, D, & Carey, VP. “Exploration of Variable Conductance Effects During Input and Extraction of Heat From Phase Change Thermal Storage.” Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and ExpositionVolume 8A: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. November 9–15, 2018. V08AT10A033. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2018-88078

Gagnon, LB, Helmns, D, & Carey, VP. “Multi-Scale Modeling of Power Plant Performance Enhancement Using Asynchronous Thermal Storage and Heat Rejection.” Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and ExpositionVolume 8B: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. November 9–15, 2018. V08BT10A021. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2018-88107

Wemp, C. K., and Carey, V. P. “Tuning Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces to Maximize Water Droplet Evaporation Heat Transfer Performance.” ASME. J. Heat Transfer. October 2018; 140(10): 102401. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040142

Helmns, A., and Carey, V. P. “Multiscale Transient Modeling of Latent Energy Storage for Asynchronous Cooling.” ASME. J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. October 2018; 10(5): 051004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4039460

2017


Wemp, C.K. and Carey, V.P., Water wicking and droplet spreading on randomly structured thin nanoporous layers. Langmuir, accepted manuscript. 2017.

Wemp, C.K. and Carey V.P., 2017. “Tuning Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces to Maximize Water Droplet Evaporation Heat Transfer Performance.”. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, November 3-9, 2017, Tampa, Florida, USA. IMECE2017-72679. PDF LINK

Kunkle, C.M., Mizerak, J.P., and Carey, V.P., 2016. “The Effects of Wettability and Surface Morphology on heat Transfer for Zinc Oxide Nanostructured Aluminum Surfaces”. ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 10-14, 2017, Bellevue, WA, USA. HT2017-4847. PDF LINK

2016


ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, Nov. 11-16, 2016, Phoenix, AZ, USA. IMECE2016-66148.

Kunkle, C., and Carey, V.P., “Metrics for Quantifying Surface Wetting Effects on Vaporization Processes at Nanostructured Hydrophilic Surfaces,” Proceedings, ASME 2016 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington, DC, USA, July 10-14, 2016. HT2016-7203. PDF LINK

Kunkle, C., and Carey, V.P., “Metrics for Quantifying Surface Wetting Effects on Boiling and Evaporation at Nanostructured Hydrohphilic Surfaces,” Proceedings of the First Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference, Hawaii’s Big Island, USA, March 13-17, 2016. PRTEC-15163.  PDF LINK

2015


Ruiz, M., and Carey, V. P., “Experimental Study of Single Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in a Spiraling Radial Inflow Microchannel Heat Sink,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 137, 071702 1-8, March, 2015.

Kunkle, C., Ruiz, M., Padilla, J., and Carey, V.P., “Effects of Surface Wettability on Boiling Heat Transfer in a Swirl Flow Microchannel Heat Sink,” Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Boulder, Colorado, April 26-30, 2015.

Ruiz, M. and Carey, V.P., “Characterization of Boiling Heat Transfer and Two Phase Flow in a Spiraling Radial Inflow Microchannel Heat Sink,” Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Boulder, Colorado, April 26-30, 2015.

Ruiz, M., Kunkle, C., Padilla, J., and Carey, V.P., “Boiling Heat Transfer Performance in a Spiraling Radial Inflow Microchannel Cold Plate,” paper InterPACKICNMM2015-48406, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems and ASME 2015 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels InterPACKICNMM2015, July 6-9, 2015, San Francisco, CA, accepted to proceedings, May, 2015.

Reed, R. and Carey, V.P., “Modeling of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Molten Glass Mini-Film for High Temperature Heat Collection in a Falling-Film Solar Central Receiver,” paper InterPACKICNMM2015-48532, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems and ASME 2015 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels InterPACKICNMM2015, July 6-9, 2015, San Francisco, CA, accepted to proceedings, May, 2015.

2014


Mendoza, H., Beaini, S. and Carey, V.P., “An Exploration of Transport within Micro and Nano Droplet Clusters During Dropwise Condensation of Water on Nanostructured Surfaces,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 129, doi: 10.1115/1.4026167, October, 2014.

Padilla, J. and Carey, V.P., ” An Experimental Study of The Leidenfrost Transition for Water on Nanostructured Superhydrophilic Surfaces,” paper IHTC15-9581, Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC-15, August 10-15, 2014, Kyoto, Japan.

Padilla, J. and Carey, V.P., “Water Droplet Vaporization on Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces at High and Low Superheat,” paper IMECE2014-39957, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition IMECE2014, November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

2013


Lettieri, D.J., Toulouse, M., Bash, C.E., Shah, A.J., and Carey, V.P., Computational and Experimental Validation of a Vortex-Superposition-Based Buoyancy Approximation for the COMPACT Code in Data Centers,” J. Electron. Packag. 135, 031014, 2013 (DOI: 10.1115/1.4024302) July, 2013.

Krishnan, V.G., Romanin, V., Carey, V.P. and Maharbiz, M.M., “Design and Scaling of Microscale Tesla Turbines,” J. Micromechanics and Microengineering, 23, (12), October, 2013.

Armijo, K.M. and Carey, V.P., “Gravity-Assisted Heat Pipe With Strong Marangoni Fluid for Waste Heat Management of Single and Dual-Junction Solar Cells,” J. Sol. Energy Engineering, 135(2), 021015, January, 2013 (DOI: 10.1115/1.4007937).

Armijo, K.M. and Carey, V.P., “An Analytical and Experimental Study of Heat Pipe Performance with a Working Fluid Exhibiting Strong Concentration Marangoni Effects,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 64, pp. 70–78, September, 2013.

Carey, V.P.,  “Molecular Level Modeling of Interfacial Phenomena in Boiling Processes,” invited keynote paper K-6, Proceedings, ECI 8th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 3-7, 2012 (also published in the journal Experimental Heat Transfer, 26, 296-327, March, 2013, DOI: 10.1080/08916152.2012.736838).

Berkeley, P. and Carey, V.P., “Thermodynamic Analysis of Wall Effects on Phase Stability and Homogeneous Nucleation in Nanochannels Containing Superheated Liquid,” Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 17, 281-303, September, 2013.

Beaini, S.S.; Kronawitter, C.X.; Carey, V.P.; Mao, S.S., “ZnO Deposition on Metal Substrates: Relating Fabrication, Morphology, and Wettability,” Journal of Applied Physics; May 2013, 113, Issue 18, p. 184905.

2012


Shah, A., Carey, V.P., Bash, C., Patel, C. and Sharma, R., Chapter entitled “Exergy Analysis of Data Center Thermal Management Systems,” Chapter 5 in Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers, edited by Y. Joshi and P. Kumar, Springer Publishing, New York, NY, 2012.

Romanin, V.D., Carey, V.P., Krishnan, V.G. and Maharbiz, M.M., “Experimental and Analytical Study of Sub-Watt Scale Tesla Turbine Performance,” paper IMECE2012-89675, Proceedings of the 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2012, Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012.

Beaini, S.S, Mendoza, H. and Carey, V.P., “The Effect of Thermal Resistance for Dropwise Condensation on Hydrophobic Micro-Pillared Structures,” paper IMECE2012-89574, Proceedings of the 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2012, Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012.

Mendoza, H. and Carey, V.P., “DSMC Modeling of Dropwise Condensation with Variable Wettability,” paper IMECE2012-89753, Proceedings of the 2012 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2012, Houston, TX, November 9-15, 2012.

Ruiz, M., and Carey, V. P., “Prediction of Single Phase Heat and Momentum Transport in a Spiraling Radial Inflow Microchannel Heat Sink,” Paper HT2012-58328, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, July 8-12, 2012.

2011


Toulouse, M.M., Lettieri, D.J., Carey, V.P., Bash, C.E., “Computational and Experimental Validation of a Vortex-Superposition-Based Buoyancy Approximation for the COMPACT Code in Data Centers,” IMECE paper 2011-64386, Proc. 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, Nov. 11-17, 2011.

Sunter, D.A. and Carey, V.P., “Heat Transfer Performance of a Dual-Chamber Finned Solar Absorber for Concentrating Solar Evaporator Applications,” paper IMECE2011-64204, Proc. 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, Nov. 11-17, 2011.

Armijo, K.M. and Carey, V.P., “An Experimental Study of Heat Pipe Performance using Binary Mixture Fluids that Exhibit Strong Concentration Marangoni Effects,” J. Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, B(3), 031003, August, 2011 (DOI: 10.1115/1.4004399).

Carey, V.P. and Gan, Y., “Thermophysics of the Interfacial Region and Its Impact on Instability and Rupture of Thin Free Liquid Films,” Heat Transfer Engineering, 32, pp. 917–927, October, 2011 (DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2011.556353).

Mendoza, H., Beaini, S. and Carey, V.P., “An Exploration of Transport within Micro and Nano Droplet Clusters During Dropwise Condensation of Water on Nanostructured Surfaces,” IMECE paper 2011-64151, Proc. 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, CO, Nov. 11-17, 2011.

Lu, M-C., Chen, R., Srinivasan, V., Carey, V.P. and Majumdar, A., “Critical Heat Flux of Pool Boiling on Si Nanowire Array-Coated Surfaces,” Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, pp. 5359-5367, December, 2011 (DOI:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.08.007).