Mechanical engineering faculty Mehdi Kabir, two students publish paper in Thermo journal

Mehdi Kabir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Alfred University's Inamori School of Engineering, along with two students majoring in mechanical engineering, recently published a paper in Thermo, a journal covering all aspects of thermal science.

Kabir collaborated with seniors Corey Field and David Howe on an article titled "Heat Transfer Characteristics if Horizontal Two-Phase Flow Boiling in Low-Pressure Low-Flow (LPLF) Conditions." Thermo is a quarterly journal published by MDPI (the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute).

The paper investigated how two-phase flow boiling in LPLF conditions "plays a crucial role in understanding and predicting the nuclear core behavior of the pressurized heavy water reactors to ensure thermal safety in unfavorable case scenarios such as loss of coolant accidents."

"Furthermore, these operating conditions can effectively be applied to the emerging thermal management systems such as compact cooling systems subjected to high heat fluxes."