I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama (UA).
Before joining UA, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Nanoheat Laboratory. I received my Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.
I am interested in heat transfer, liquid-vapor phase change phenomena, flow visualization, and additive manufacturing. I have worked to reveal key insights into fundamental thermofluidic physics of the operation principles of a plate heat exchanger, which we see as a thermal transport device with complex micro- and minichannels.
Email: hyunjin.kim [AT] ua.edu
hjkim.phd [AT] gmail.com
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