Alvarado, Jorge

Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2004
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 2000
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez – 1991

- Heat Transfer
- Energy System Design
- Renewable Energy
- Water Conservation
- Computational Fluid Dynamics

M. Kong (PhD Student), J.L. Alvarado, C. Thies, S. Morefield, C.P. Marsh, "Field Evaluation of Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Slurry in Ground Source Heat Pump Systems,” Energy, 2017
T. Zhang, (PhD student), J.P. Muthusamy (PhD student), J.L. Alvarado, A. Kanjirakat, R. Sadr, "Experimental and Numerical Visualization of Droplet-Induced Crown Splashing Dynamics,” Journal of Heat Transfer, 2017
J. Park, A. Pagan-Vazquez, J.L. Alvarado, L.P. Chamorro, S.M. Lux, C.P. Marsh, "Characterization of Tab-Induced Counter-Rotating Vortex Pair for Mixing Applications,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 139/031102, March, 2017
M. Kong (PhD student), J.L. Alvarado, W. Terrell, C. Thies, "Performance characteristics of microencapsulated phase change material slurry in a helically coiled tube," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 101, Pages 901-914, October 2016
T. Zhang (PhD student), J.L. Alvarado, J.P. Muthusamy (PhD student), A. Kanjirakat, R. Sadr, "Effects of Screen Laminates on Droplet-Induced Film Hydrodynamics and Surface Heat Transfer," Journal of Heat Transfer, 080902-1 / Vol. 138, August 2016