Invention Coach:
Robert Read
Public Inventor(s):
Cledden Obeng-Poku Kwanin, Morena Andres, and Aditya Choksi
Previous PIs:
Christopher J Fang, Kaitlyn Wang, Stephanie A. Ponce, Concepcion C Appio-Riley, Sana A. Mohamed, Samuel Robedee
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Status:
Active
Skills Needed
CAD Designers/Drafters, Engineers with interest or a background in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics/Heat-transfer, HVAC principles, and interested parties.
Quarterly Goals
Current inventors hope to redesign the first version of the Ecopot developed by Rice University Students. The redesign will take into consideration applicable heat transfer characteristics studied and visualized via thermal analysis studies/profiles conducted in computational fluid dyanmic software tools, such as OpenFOAM/Solidworks.
Collateral
Prior Rice University Students Utilized Concepts From:
“Revisiting the optimal shape of cooling fins: A one-dimensional analytical study using optimality conditions” by Joe Alexandersen and Ole Sigmund.