MechE Colloquium: Let droplets drop the temperature: Enhancing heat transfer using droplets

Speaker: <a href="https://engineering.washu.edu/faculty/Patricia-Weisensee.html">Prof. Patricia Weisensee</a>, <a href="https://engineering.washu.edu/">McKelvey School of Engineering</a>, <a href="https://washu.edu/">Washington University in St. Louis</a> Organiser: <a href="https://people.epfl.ch/zhengmao.lu">Prof. Zhengmao Lu </a> <strong>Abstract: </strong>We experience and rely on droplets almost every single day of our lives: some more familiar (the shower in the morning, the rain on our way to work, printing a documents once at work, <em>etc.</em>), some less obvious (atmospheric water harvesting, thermal management &amp; power generation, materials manufacturing and processing). Yet we hardly ever think about them – we take them for granted. In this talk I will show that droplets aren’t only ubiquitous in both nature and industrial processes, but also a complex and fascinating research subject that still holds many