Diana Borca Tasciuc

Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering

About

D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc received her B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University in 1996, and M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and respectively 2005. She was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2002 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2003 and 2005. She joined RPI's Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant professor in 2006.

Research

Other Focus Areas

Power Harvesting MEMS, Heat Transfer in Nanosystems, Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC), New PV Materials

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Diana Borca Tasciuc has 115 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy.

Predictive model using artificial neural network to design phase change material-based ocean thermal energy harvesting systems for powering uncrewed underwater vehicles
Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hyunjun Jung, Jinglun Li, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc, Andrea E. Copping, Zhiqun Daniel Deng
Energy
, 301
, 2024
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Editorial: Recent development in energy conversion systems
Sunday O. Oyedepo, Fidelis I. Abam, Oluseyi O. Ajayi, Olusegun D. Samuel, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc, Abimbola P.I. Popoola
Frontiers in Energy Research
, 12
, 2024
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Modeling periodic asymmetric light transmitting nanostructures for luminescent solar concentrators using comsol multiphysics wave optics module
Hannah Arnow, Vincent Oliveto, Duncan Smith, Michael Hughes, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Proceedings of ASME 2024 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, HT 2024
, 2024
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Modeling and Optimization of a Phase Change Material-Based Ocean Thermal Energy Harvester for Powering Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles
Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hyunjun Jung, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc, Andrea E. Copping, Zhiqun Deng
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME
, 146
, 2024
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MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF A PCM-BASED OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY HARVESTER FOR POWERING UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES
Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hyunjun Jung, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc, Andrea E. Copping, Zhiqun Deng
Proceedings of ASME 2023 17th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2023
, 2023
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Broadband Vibration-Based Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Applications Using Frequency Upconversion
Jinglun Li, Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hannah Arnow, Arian Nowbahari, Matthew Galarza, Meg Obispo, Xing Tong, Mehdi Azadmehr, Einar Halvorsen, Mona M. Hella, John A. Tichy, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Sensors
, 23
, 2023
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A Novel Comb Design for Enhanced Power and Bandwidth in Electrostatic Mems Energy Converters
Jinglun Li, Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hannah Arnow, Arian Nowbahari, Matthew Galarza, Meg Obispo, Xing Tong, Mehdi Azadmehr, Mona M. Hella, John A. Tichy, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
, 2023-January
, 2023
, pp.728-731
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Theoretical investigation of asymmetric light interfaces for increasing optical efficiency of luminescent solar concentrators via integration of finite element simulation results with Monte Carlo ray tracing
Vincent Oliveto, Bhakti Patel, Kai Park, Duncan E. Smith, Michael D. Hughes, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Renewable Energy
, 218
, 2023
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Water Thermodynamic Behavior Under Influence of Electric Field: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Malcolm Porterfield, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Journal of Heat Transfer
, 144
, 2022
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Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Nanostructure-Based Asymmetric Light Transmission Interfaces for Solar Concentrator Applications
Vincent Oliveto, Michael Hughes, Duncan E. Smith, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Energies
, 15
, 2022
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