Konrad Rykaczewski
Associate Professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU
Project Status: Active
Understanding of heat transfer during skin contact with cooler or hotter objects is important for design of portable electronics, thermal displays, artificial hands, haptic devices, and wearable thermal systems as well as for setting safety […]
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Sweating is important to human thermoregulation, thermal comfort, illness diagnosis, and hygiene product development. However, little is known about how droplets emerge and evaporate from our sweat glands. The scale of these phenomena is in-between […]
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We are interested in quantifying and developing predictive models of how humans exchange heat with their surrounding through convection, radiation, and evaporation, particularly in extreme heat conditions. Recently we have 1) improved theoretical analysis for […]
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Heat transfer plays a part in nearly every industry. Consequently, finding routes of enhancing heat transfer can provide significant economic and societal benefits. Traditionally, heat transfer equipment is composed of metallic components that have hard […]
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Thermal management of integrated circuits (ICs) has become a limiting factor for transistor frequency, which has stalled around a few gigahertz over the past decade. The large thermal loads stem from extremely densely packed, nanometer- […]
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The development of high performance, yet ergonomic, personal cooling garments is not only important for current medical, military, and other specialized applications, but also for adaptation of broader population to future weather patterns. “Deadly heat […]
