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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2004

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, P Vijayan, T Tang, S Nara, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, J Wang, and David W Song."Evaluation of the Temperature Oscillation Technique to Calculate Thermal Conductivity of Water and Systematic Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Aluminum Oxide – Water Nanofluiids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, (2004).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, S.K Saha, Ajay K Yadav, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Brownian Dynamics Simulation to Determine the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."Journal of Applied Physics 95.11 (2004) 6492–6494. DOI

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Determining the Effective Viscosity of a Nanofluid Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."1st International Symposium on Micro & Nano Technology (2004).

Calhoun, R, Patrick E Phelan, Ajay K Yadav, and Prajesh Bhattacharya."Numerical Tools For Particle- Fluid Interactions."Pulmonary Research Forum: American Lung Association of Arizona & New Mexico (2004).

2003

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, S.K Saha, Ajay K Yadav, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Determining the Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Nanofluid Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."National Heat Transfer Conference (2003).

2002

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, and Patrick E Phelan."Modeling the Behavior of F1-ATPase Biomolecular Motors Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."BioDevice Interface Science and Technology Workshop (2002).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, and Patrick E Phelan."Understanding the Behavior of an F1-ATPase Biomolecular Motor Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."US-Japan Nanotherm Seminar: Nanoscale Thermal Science and Engineering (2002).

1995

Phelan, Patrick E, Ravi S Prasher, and Prajesh Bhattacharya."Nanofluids for Heat Transfer Applications."Annual Review of Heat Transfer 14 (1995) 255-275.