The Thermal/Fluids Systems Group, TFS, is a major technical area within the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin. This area has been teaching and conducting research for many years. The faculty do research across many fields. Undergraduate students take many introductory and technical courses taught by TFS faculty. Graduate students also take courses taught by TFS faculty, as well as work in the Department and research labs as research and teaching assistants.

Research within this group includes the following topics: dielectric and conventional drying, combustion, IC engines, gas turbine blade cooling, turbulent transport, drag reduction, thermal radiation in absorbing/emitting/scattering media, HVAC, energy management and conservation, numerical simulation of turbulence, viscous and hypersonic flow, laser measurement techniques, electronics cooling, interfacial heat and mass transport, liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics, thermal analysis of manufacturing processes, solar radiation measurement, solar energy applications, micro and nano-scale thermal/fluid transport and systems, thermal/fluid issues in laser material processing, and energy conversion.

Even more information will go here, better describing the Area for anyone who might be viewing the page. It is important to remember that the "audience" viewing this page will be comprised of everyone from technical experts in the field searching for specific information to potential donors/sponsors to curious non-scientists.

 

Thermal/Fluids Systems | Mechanical Engineering Department | Cockrell School of Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C2200 | Austin TX 78712-0292 | Phone: 512-471-4584 | Fax: 512-471-1045 | Email: dena.wagner@engr.utexas.edu
| Contact Webmaster.