The Complex Fluids and Multiphase Transport Laboratory focuses on advancing fundamental thermal-fluid, interfacial, and data sciences, and applying them to enable sustainable manufacturing, effective thermal management, and efficient energy conversion and storage systems.
Ying Sun,
University of Cincinnati
In this talk, I will highlight our combined use of multiscale modeling, experimental techniques, and data-driven approaches to understand transport processes in multiphase systems with fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, phase change, electrochemistry, and pattern formation. Examples of spatiotemporally resolved microscopy and acoustic sensing techniques to probe interfacial instabilities, as well as interpretable unsupervised learning for boiling and condensation will be discussed, aiming to discover new physical insights and enable efficient thermal management solutions and sustainable manufacturing processes.
Dr. Ying Sun is the Herman Schneider Professor and Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Cincinnati. She served as head of the department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at UC and as program director for the Thermal Transport Processes Program at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Sun’s research interests span multiphase flows and heat/mass transfer, complex fluids and interfacial phenomena, machine learning and data-driven methods, and multi-scale modeling. She is an elected Fellow of APS and ASME and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship, CNRS Visiting Professorship, and Drexel College of Engineering Research Achievement Award. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Ecole Polytechnique, and Tsinghua University. Dr. Sun has also chaired the ASME ME Department Heads Executive Committee, co-chairs the 2025 Gordon Research Conference for Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Phenomena and leads an NSF REU Site on Decarbonization.