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Cristina H. Amon

Cristina H. Amon

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
61
Citations
13710
World Ranking
646
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2009 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advances in heat transfer and thermal design of portable electronics and for contributions to engineering education.
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Cristina H. Amon is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a research profile strongly oriented toward engineering, with significant contributions in medicine as well. Their work spans multiple specialized subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The primary focus remains largely on engineering disciplines.

Their research covers several major topics, specifically:

  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Among the frequent co-authors are Carlos Da Silva, David A. Romero, Daniela Galatro, Olivier Trescases, and V. Costanzo-Álvarez, highlighting a collaborative research approach across different areas of expertise.

Cristina H. Amon has published extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Optimal design of wind farms in complex terrains using computational fluid dynamics and adjoint methods," published in 2020 in Applied Energy
  • "Design optimization methodologies applied to battery thermal management systems: A review," published in 2023 in Journal of Energy Storage
  • "Predicting specific heat capacity and directional thermal conductivities of cylindrical lithium-ion batteries: A combined experimental and simulation framework," published in 2020 in Applied Thermal Engineering
  • "THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES: AGING, HEAT GENERATION, THERMAL MANAGEMENT AND FAILURE," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Distributed Control of Active Cell Balancing and Low-Voltage Bus Regulation in Electric Vehicles Using Hierarchical Model-Predictive Control," published in 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

The scientist has received several awards recognizing contributions to engineering and thermal sciences. These include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2011), Academy of Science
  • Heat Transfer Memorial Award from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2009)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) for advances in heat transfer and thermal design of portable electronics and contributions to engineering education
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2003)
  • ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2000)
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1999)
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • Broadband phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity measured using frequency domain thermoreflectance.

    Keith T. Regner;Daniel P. Sellan;Zonghui Su;Cristina H. Amon;Cristina H. Amon

  • Size effects in molecular dynamics thermal conductivity predictions

    Daniel P. Sellan;Eric S. Landry;J. E. Turney;Alan J.H. McGaughey

  • Predicting phonon dispersion relations and lifetimes from the spectral energy density

    John A. Thomas;Joseph E. Turney;Ryan M. Iutzi;Cristina H. Amon;Cristina H. Amon

  • Predicting phonon properties and thermal conductivity from anharmonic lattice dynamics calculations and molecular dynamics simulations

    J. E. Turney;E. S. Landry;A. J. H. McGaughey;C. H. Amon;C. H. Amon

  • Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

    A. S. Nain;F. Chung;Michael Rule;J. A. Jadlowiec

  • Submicron heat transport model in silicon accounting for phonon dispersion and polarization

    Sreekant V. J. Narumanchi;Jayathi Y. Murthy;Cristina H. Amon

  • Assessing the applicability of quantum corrections to classical thermal conductivity predictions

    J. E. Turney;A. J. H. McGaughey;C. H. Amon;C. H. Amon

  • PCM thermal control unit for portable electronic devices: experimental and numerical studies

    E.M. Alawadhi;C.H. Amon

  • Bioprinting of growth factors onto aligned sub-micron fibrous scaffolds for simultaneous control of cell differentiation and alignment.

    Elmer D.F. Ker;Amrinder S. Nain;Lee E. Weiss;Ji Wang

  • A new mathematical programming approach to optimize wind farm layouts

    S.D.O. Turner;D.A. Romero;P.Y. Zhang;C.H. Amon

  • Residual stress-induced warping in direct metal solid freeform fabrication

    N.W Klingbeil;J.L Beuth;R.K Chin;C.H Amon

  • An engineering design methodology with multistage Bayesian surrogates and optimal sampling

    Ignacio G. Osio;Cristina H. Amon

  • The effect of asymmetry in abdominal aortic aneurysms under physiologically realistic pulsatile flow conditions.

    E. A. Finol;K. Keyhani;C. H. Amon

  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based micro-scale direct methanol fuel cell development

    Shi-Chune Yao;Xudong Tang;Cheng-Chieh Hsieh;Yousef Alyousef

  • Size-dependent model for thin film and nanowire thermal conductivity

    Alan J. H. McGaughey;Eric S. Landry;Daniel P. Sellan;Cristina H. Amon

  • Multi-length and time scale thermal transport using the lattice Boltzmann method with application to electronics cooling

    Rodrigo A. Escobar;Rodrigo A. Escobar;Sartaj S. Ghai;Myung S. Jhon;Cristina H. Amon

  • Blood flow in abdominal aortic aneurysms: pulsatile flow hemodynamics

    Ender A. Finol;Cristina H. Amon

  • On the lattice Boltzmann method for phonon transport

    Aydin Nabovati;Daniel P. Sellan;Cristina H. Amon

  • MEMS-enabled thermal management of high-heat-flux devices EDIFICE: embedded droplet impingement for integrated cooling of electronics

    Cristina H. Amon;Jayathi Murthy;S. C. Yao;Sreekant Narumanchi

  • Transition to chaos in converging–diverging channel flows: Ruelle–Takens–Newhouse scenario

    A. M. Guzmán;C. H. Amon

  • Comparison of Different Phonon Transport Models for Predicting Heat Conduction in Silicon-on-Insulator Transistors

    Sreekant V. J. Narumanchi;Jayathi Y. Murthy;Cristina H. Amon

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. H. McGaughey
Alan J. H. McGaughey Carnegie Mellon University
Jayathi Y. Murthy
Jayathi Y. Murthy Oregon State University
Myung S. Jhon
Myung S. Jhon Carnegie Mellon University
Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Fritz B. Prinz
Fritz B. Prinz Stanford University
J. Christopher Beck
J. Christopher Beck University of Toronto
Daniel P. Siewiorek
Daniel P. Siewiorek Carnegie Mellon University
Lee E. Weiss
Lee E. Weiss Carnegie Mellon University
Bahgat Sammakia
Bahgat Sammakia Binghamton University
Asim Smailagic
Asim Smailagic Carnegie Mellon University

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