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D-Index
42
Citations
9858
World Ranking
1789
National Ranking
679

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Max Jakob Memorial Award
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1981 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Ivan Catton was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focused on engineering, with particular emphasis on mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist published extensively in topics related to heat transfer and supercritical fluids, heat transfer and optimization, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, thermodynamic and exergetic analyses of power and cooling systems, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, advanced battery technologies research, and advanced battery materials and technologies.

Frequent coauthors included Timothy S. Fisher, Akshay Bharadwaj Krishna, Kaiyuan Jin, P. S. Ayyaswamy, and Zachary Wong.

Common publication venues were the Journal of Heat Transfer, SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, and Journal of Power Sources.

  • Technoeconomic optimization of superalloy supercritical CO2 microtube shell-and-tube-heat exchangers (2022, Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Thermohydraulic experiments on a supercritical carbon dioxide-air microtube heat exchanger (2023, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer)
  • Modeling of Supercritical CO2 Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers Under Extreme Conditions: Part II: Heat Exchanger Model (2022, Journal of Heat Transfer)
  • Modeling of Supercritical CO2 Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers Under Extreme Conditions. Part I: Correlation Development (2022, Journal of Heat Transfer)
  • Calorimetry can detect the early onset of hydrolysis in hybrid supercapacitors with aqueous electrolytes (2022, Journal of Power Sources)

Their contributions to engineering were recognized with awards such as the Max Jakob Memorial Award in 2009, Fellowship of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1989, and the Heat Transfer Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Heat transfer across a two-fluid-layer region

    J. H. Lienhard;I. Catton

  • NATURAL CONVECTION IN ENCLOSURES

    Ivan Catton

  • Natural Convection in Enclosed Spaces—A Review of Application to Solar Energy Collection

    H. Buchberg;I. Catton;D. K. Edwards

  • Quantifying reactor safety margins part 1: An overview of the code scaling, applicability, and uncertainty evaluation methodology

    B.E. Boyack;I. Catton;R.B. Duffey;P. Griffith

  • Experimental study of biporous wicks for high heat flux applications

    Tadej Semenic;Ivan Catton

  • Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection in Inclined Rectangular Regions of Differing Aspect Ratios

    J. N. Arnold;I. Catton;D. K. Edwards

  • Capillary Flow in Triangular Grooves

    P. S. Ayyaswamy;I. Catton;D. K. Edwards

  • Numerical Evaluation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Plate-Pin Fin Heat Sinks with Various Pin Cross-Sections

    Feng Zhou;Ivan Catton

  • The effect of insulating vertical walls on the onset of motion in a fluid heated from below

    Ivan Catton

  • Three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability Part 1. Weakly nonlinear theory

    J. W. Jacobs;I. Catton

  • Dispersion in cellular thermal convection in porous layers

    John G. Georgiadis;I. Catton

  • Natural convection flow in a finite, rectangular slot arbitrarily oriented with respect to the gravity vector

    Ivan Catton;P.S. Ayyaswamy;R.M. Clever

  • Planar vapor chamber with hybrid evaporator wicks for the thermal management of high-heat-flux and high-power optoelectronic devices

    Y. Sungtaek Ju;M. Kaviany;Y. Nam;Y. Nam;S. Sharratt

  • The Effect of Wall Conduction on the Stability of a Fluid in a Right Circular Cylinder Heated From Below

    J. C. Buell;I. Catton

  • Effect of Side Walls on Natural Convection Between Horizontal Plates Heated From Below

    I. Catton;D. K. Edwards

  • Use of biporous wicks to remove high heat fluxes

    Tadej Semenic;Ying Yu Lin;Ivan Catton;David B. Sarraf

  • On the Thermal Instability of Superposed Porous and Fluid Layers

    C. W. Somerton;I. Catton

  • Convection in a Closed Rectangular Region: The Onset of Motion

    Ivan Catton

  • Thermophysical Properties of Biporous Heat Pipe Evaporators

    Tadej Semenic;Ying-Yu Lin;Ivan Catton

  • Enhanced evaporation heat transfer in triangular grooves covered with a thin fine porous layer

    Jinliang Wang;Ivan Catton

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijay K. Dhir
Vijay K. Dhir University of California, Los Angeles
Nasr M. Ghoniem
Nasr M. Ghoniem University of California, Los Angeles
Youngsuk Nam
Youngsuk Nam Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Timothy S. Fisher
Timothy S. Fisher University of California, Los Angeles
Massoud Kaviany
Massoud Kaviany University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
A.R. Raffray
A.R. Raffray University of California, San Diego

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