Shankar Narayan

Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Associate Professor

About

Awards:
SOE Classroom Excellence Award (2020).
NASA Early Career Faculty Award (2020).
Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching Development Award (2020).
National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019).
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund’s Doctoral New Investigator Award (2018).

Research

Other Focus Areas

Thermal and Fluids Engineering, Sustainable Energy Systems, Micro and Nano-engineered Structures, Multiscale Transport Analysis, Energy Conversion and Storage

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Shankar Narayan has 72 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science.

Thermoresponsive nanofiber yarns for water harvesting enhanced by harp system
Gregory Parisi, Piotr K. Szewczyk, Shankar Narayan, Urszula Stachewicz
Chemical Engineering Journal
, 499
, 2024
.
An entropic understanding of flow maldistribution in thermally isolated parallel channels
Toochukwu Aka, Shankar Narayan
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
, 227
, 2024
.
Using entropy balance to determine multiphase flow distribution in thermally decoupled parallel channels with shared inlet and outlet headers
Toochukwu Aka, Shankar Narayan
Physics of Fluids
, 36
, 2024
.
In situ measurement of multistep anodic aluminum oxide fabrication for quartz crystal microbalance-based sensing applications
Brandon Murray, Xuanjie Wang, Shankar Narayan
Applied Thermal Engineering
, 243
, 2024
.
Synthesis, Optical Performance Characterization, and Durability of Electrospun PTFE-PEO Materials for Space Applications
Chieloka Ibekwe, Xuanjie Wang, Brandon Nicholas Bolzani, Connor O’Brien, Cooper James Waataja, Colin P. Mahony, Jeffrey R. Feller, Adam M. Swanger, Jason W. Hartwig, Shankar Narayan
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 16
, 2024
, pp.32587-32598
.
Assessing the Performance of a Thermoresponsive Liquid-Based Smart Windows for Building Thermal Regulation through Outdoor Experimentation and Computational Modeling
Gregory Parisi, Xuanjie Wang, Youngjin Hwang, Shankar Narayan
Advanced Sustainable Systems
, 8
, 2024
.
Multifunctional Piezoelectric Yarns and Meshes for Efficient Fog Water Collection, Energy Harvesting, and Sensing
Gregory Parisi, Piotr K. Szewczyk, Shankar Narayan, Daniel P. Ura, Joanna Knapczyk-Korczak, Urszula Stachewicz
Small Science
, 4
, 2024
.
Experimental Determination of Absolute Spectral Radiance and Emissivity of a Photonic Crystal Filament
Mei Li Hsieh, A. Kaiser, T. Romero, James A. Bur, Shankar Narayanan, A. Levitan, Shawn Yu Lin
IEEE Photonics Journal
, 14
, 2022
.
Experimental Study and Mitigation of Pressure Drop Oscillation Using Active Control
Qi Jin, John T. Wen, Shankar Narayanan
Journal of Electronic Packaging, Transactions of the ASME
, 143
, 2021
.
A Comparison of Finite Element and Lumped Modeling Techniques to Analyze Flow Boiling in Microchannels
Qi Jin, Charles C. Okaeme, John T. Wen, Shankar Narayanan
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
, 11
, 2021
, pp.1655-1667
.

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