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NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ( CBET ) Transport and Thermal Fluids Cluster Thermal Transport Processes Program Director - Theodore L. Bergman - tbergman @ nsf.gov. 1. Program Scope.
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NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Transport and Thermal Fluids Cluster Thermal Transport Processes Program Director - Theodore L. Bergman - tbergman@nsf.gov 1
Program Scope Promote the fundamental understanding of thermal transport (heat and mass transfer) at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels for: Conversion & conservation of thermal energy Synthesis & processing of materials Cooling & heating of infrastructure and equipment Understanding thermal effects in, and on biological matter Advanced manufacturing Reducing the impact of industrial processes on the environment 2
Representative Topics Research, Workshops, and Supplements Involving: Convection heat and mass transfer with and without phase change Diffusion and conduction at nano- and molecular scales Radiative transfer Understanding and tailoring the thermophysical properties of hard and soft matter Novel thermal energy conversion devices, biomedical protocols, diagnostic techniques System-level integration of nanoscale phenomena Multimode transfer in multidisciplinary settings 3
CAREER: Heat and Charge Transport in Metal-Molecule-Metal Junctions Slide 1 of 3 Pramod Sangi-Reddy - University of Michigan 4
CAREER: Experimental and Theoretical Analysis for Optical Induced Thermal Energy Transport in Nano-Optical Systems with Pulsed Light Sources Slide 2 of 3 Sy-Bor Wen - Texas A&M University 5
CAREER: A Research and Education Program on Nanoscale Thermal Transport: Developing a High Spatiotemporal Resolution Photo-Thermal Microscope Slide 3 of 3 Ronggui Yang - University of Colorado Targets: Temporal Resolution of 10 fs Spatial Resolution of 10 nm Temperature Resolution of 0.01 K 6