Research

Ephraim Sparrow is a generalist who works on a very broad range of problems which encompasses almost all mechanical engineering and is both focused and motivated by industrial applications.

He is also in charge of the Laboratory for Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Practice whose function is to undertake both industrially based and fundamental problems. The lab is well equipped with instrumentation and other equipment sufficient to deal with virtually any project which falls within the bounds of heat transfer and fluid flow.

Sparrow also teaches computationally based courses which are highly effective in solving problems requiring compational fluid dynamics (CFD) and ANSYS capabillities. He and his team use these skills across the board in all manner of research and development projects. A sample of the types of projects that are and have been solved by Sparrow and his team are as follows:

HEAT TRANSFER

Heat exchangers
Heat sealing
Thermal conductivity measurements
Temperature control
Electronic equipment thermal management
Heat conduction analysis
Icing
Condensation
Temperature measurement
Jet cooling and heating
Furnace design
Simulation
Numerical modeling
Heat transfer laboratory

BIOMEDICAL HEAT and FLUID FLOW

Biomedical device development and assessment
Blood flow analysis
Biomedical thermal management
Urether stents
Temperature based therpies
Assessment of necrosis
Mass transfer processes

FLUID FLOW

Instrumentation: velocity and pressue sensors
Fluid flow control
Flow visualization
Computational fluid dynamics
Numerical simulation
Fluid flow laboratory
Two-phase flow
Piping systems

PROCESSES

Friction stir welding
Polymer processing
Web-based processing
HVAC
Total energy wheels

Sparrow and his team are eager to undertake and to solve all industrially based projects.

Publications

Laboratory

Applied Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory