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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
46
Citations
8185
World Ranking
1444
National Ranking
572

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Minking K. Chyu is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Heat transfer and supercritical fluids
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Subcritical and Supercritical Water Processes
  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies

Minking K. Chyu has published extensively in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • Journal of Turbomachinery

Their recent papers include:

  • Design, flow characteristics and performance evaluation of bioinspired heat exchangers based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (2022), published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Investigating the effect of element shape of the face-centered cubic lattice structure on the flow and endwall heat transfer characteristics in a rectangular channel (2020), published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Fluid flow and heat transfer performance for micro-lattice structures fabricated by Selective Laser Melting (2021), published in International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • Comparing endwall heat transfer among staggered pin fin, Kagome and body centered cubic arrays (2020), published in Applied Thermal Engineering
  • The effect of unit size on the flow and heat transfer performance of the "Schwartz-D" heat exchanger (2023), published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Minking K. Chyu include:

  • Dong Liang
  • Wei Chen
  • Wandong Bai
  • Zenan Yang
  • Xiaobo Luo

In 1997, Minking K. Chyu was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • A benchmark study on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids

    Jacopo Buongiorno;David C. Venerus;Naveen Prabhat;Thomas McKrell

  • Fluid filtration and rheological properties of nanoparticle additive and intercalated clay hybrid bentonite drilling fluids

    Matthew M. Barry;Youngsoo Jung;Jung-Kun Lee;Tran X. Phuoc;Tran X. Phuoc

  • Heat transfer and pressure drop for short pin-fin arrays with pin-endwall fillet

    M. K. Chyu

  • Characterization of ZnO nanoparticle suspension in water: Effectiveness of ultrasonic dispersion

    Sung Jae Chung;Sung Jae Chung;John P. Leonard;John P. Leonard;Ian Nettleship;Ian Nettleship;Jung-Kun Lee

  • Simulation of the chemical/electrochemical reactions and heat/mass transfer for a tubular SOFC in a stack

    Pei Wen Li;Minking K. Chyu

  • Finite element modeling and validation of thermomechanical behavior of Ti-6Al-4V in directed energy deposition additive manufacturing

    Qingcheng Yang;Pu Zhang;Lin Cheng;Zheng Min

  • Film Cooling Effectiveness and Heat Transfer Coefficient Distributions Around Diffusion Shaped Holes

    Y. Yu;C.-H. Yen;T. I.-P. Shih;M. K. Chyu

  • Concavity Enhanced Heat Transfer in an Internal Cooling Passage

    M. K. Chyu;Y. Yu;H. Ding;J. P. Downs

  • Convective Heat Transfer of Cubic Fin Arrays in a Narrow Channel

    M. K. Chyu;Y. C. Hsing;V. Natarajan

  • Heat Transfer Contributions of Pins and Endwall in Pin-Fin Arrays: Effects of Thermal Boundary Condition Modeling

    M. K. Chyu;Y. C. Hsing;T. I.-P. Shih;V. Natarajan

  • Cavity Heat Transfer on a Transverse Grooved Wall in a Narrow Flow Channel

    D. E. Metzger;R. S. Bunker;M. K. Chyu

  • Viscosity measurements on colloidal dispersions (nanofluids) for heat transfer applications

    David C. Venerus;Jacopo Buongiorno;Rebecca Christianson;Jessica Townsend

  • A Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Smooth and Ribbed U-Duct With and Without Rotation

    Y.-L. Lin;T. I.-P. Shih;M. A. Stephens;M. K. Chyu

  • Heat Transfer in the Tip Region of Grooved Turbine Blades

    M. K. Chyu;H. K. Moon;D. E. Metzger

  • Heat transfer on the base surface of threedimensional protruding elements

    M.K. Chyu;V. Natarajan

  • The characteristic behavior of TMAH water solution for anisotropic etching on both Silicon substrate and SiO2 layer

    Ping-Hei Chen;Hsin-Yah Peng;Chia-Ming Hsieh;Minking K Chyu

  • Synthesis of Mg(OH)2, MgO, and Mg nanoparticles using laser ablation of magnesium in water and solvents

    Tran X. Phuoc;Bret. H. Howard;Donald V. Martello;Yee Soong

  • Synthesis of Ag-deionized water nanofluids using multi-beam laser ablation in liquids

    Tran X. Phuoc;Yee Soong;Minking K. Chyu

  • Heat Transfer Contributions of Pins and Endwall in Pin-Fin Arrays: Effects of Thermal Boundary Condition Modeling

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  • Regional heat transfer in two-pass and three-pass passages with 180-deg sharp turns

    M. K. Chyu

  • Measurement of local mass transfer on a surface in the region of the base of a protruding cylinder with a computer-controlled data acquisition system

    R.J. Goldstein;M.K. Chyu;R.C. Hain

  • Convective Heat Transfer of Cubic Fin Arrays in a Narrow Channel

    Unknown

  • The performance of PEM fuel cells fed with oxygen through the free-convection mode

    Pei Wen Li;Tao Zhang;Qing Ming Wang;Laura Schaefer

  • Conjugate Forced Convection-Conduction Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Plate Fin

    E. M. Sparrow;M. K. Chyu

  • Porous CuO–ZnO nanocomposite for sensing electrode of high-temperature CO solid-state electrochemical sensor

    Nianqiang Wu;Nianqiang Wu;Minhua Zhao;Jian-Guo Zheng;Chuanbin Jiang

  • Rheological behavior of clay-nanoparticle hybrid-added bentonite suspensions: Specific role of hybrid additives on the gelation of clay-based fluids

    Youngsoo Jung;You-Hwan Son;Jung-Kun Lee;Tran X. Phuoc

  • Transpiration cooling for additive manufactured porous plates with partition walls

    Gan Huang;Zheng Min;Li Yang;Pei-Xue Jiang

  • Design, flow characteristics and performance evaluation of bioinspired heat exchangers based on triply periodic minimal surfaces

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Peiwen Li
Peiwen Li University of Arizona
Qing-Ming Wang
Qing-Ming Wang University of Pittsburgh
Jung-Kun Lee
Jung-Kun Lee University of Pittsburgh
Nianqiang Wu
Nianqiang Wu University of Massachusetts Amherst
Scott X. Mao
Scott X. Mao University of Pittsburgh
Yulong Ding
Yulong Ding University of Birmingham
Jinwei Gao
Jinwei Gao South China Normal University
Haisheng Chen
Haisheng Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dongsheng Wen
Dongsheng Wen Technical University of Munich
Indranil Manna
Indranil Manna Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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