• Thermal Engineering Laboratories:
  • Controllable Fluids Applications
  • Turbomachinery Heat Transfer
  • Heat Exchanger Analysis & Design
  • Fire Reasearch

• Control of Radiation Heat Transfer Through a Composite Window Featuring ER Fluids: A Conceptual Investigation, C. Zhang and J.R. Lloyd, 2nd Minsk International Heat and Mass Transfer Forum, Minsk, Byelorussia, May 17-22. Accepted for publication Journal of Engineering Physics.
  
• Measurement of Radiation Heat Transfer in Electrorheological Fluid Based Composite Materials, C. Zhang and J.R. Lloyd, in "Developments in Radiative Heat Transfer" HTD-Vol. 203, National Heat Transfer Conference, 55-62, 1992.
  
• Enhancement of Conductive Heat Transfer through an Electrorheological Fluid Based Composite Material, C. Zhang and J.R. Lloyd, Fundamentals of Heat Transfer in Electromagnetic, Electrostatic, and Acoustic Fields, ed. Y. Bayazitoglu and V.S. Arpaci HTD-Vol. 248, 1993 National Heat Transfer Conference, August 8-11, 75-82.
  
• A Discussion on the Use of Electrorheological Fluids in the Active Control of Heat Transfer Processes, J.R. Lloyd and C. Zhang, Invited Paper in Heat and Mass Transfer 94, eds. A.R. Balakrishnan and S. Srinivasa Murthy Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, First ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, January, Bombay, India, 67-78.
  

Selected Research

• Heat Transfer Augmentation/Control Utilizing Smart Composite Materials,
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  
• Heat Transfer in ER Based Composite Materials,
  Sponsor: State of Michigan Research Excellence Fund
  
• Inverse Problem Solutions for Selected Composite Materials,
  Sponsor: Sandia National Laboratories
  
• Thermal Conductivity of Solder,
  Sponsor: Ford Motor Company