A new experiment designed by Purdue University engineers addresses both problems. The Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE), which arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday (Aug ...

The Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE), which arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday (Aug. 12), will soon advance the science of heat transfer in microgravity.

(a) Picture of fabricated heat sink and (b) drawing of the heat sink design. Credit: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2025.127139 ...

Shakti Naresh, 6, tries a heat transfer experiment, wherein liquid is pushed up a handboiler, to demonstrate how the University of Chicago campus is heated, during the 2nd annual South Side ...

On cosmic scales, most heat transfer occurs through a vacuum via photons, or particles of light, emitted by stars—this is how the sun warms our planet despite being some 150 million kilometers away.

A team led by led by Purdue University Professor Issam Mudawar has developed the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) to enable two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer experiments to be ...

In recent experiments, Federal University of Technology, Zurich, engineer Emiliano Casati and his colleagues used synthetic quartz rods to capture solar energy and transfer it, in the form of heat ...

Conducting research in heat transfer, Mr. F. Downie-Smith is working in Dunbar Laboratory of the Engineering School with a specially constructed apparatus for determining thermal conductivity.

Purdue-designed heat transfer experiment arrives at International Space Station After a decade of work, Issam Mudawar will soon see the results of the largest phase change experiment ever conducted in ...

The Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE), which arrived at the International Space Station on Aug. 12, will soon advance the science of heat transfer in microgravity.