Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Flux Lab
Led by Youngsup Song · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
Flux Lab studies how heat and fluids move at surfaces, especially boiling and very cold (cryogenic) liquids. Applications are in energy, electronics cooling and space.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Wettability characterization of cryogenic liquids
Studies how very cold (cryogenic) liquids wet surfaces, which affects how they boil and transfer heat.
Effects of orientation on flow boiling heat transfer
Studies how the orientation of a surface affects heat transfer when a liquid boils as it flows.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Decoupling surface topography from gravitational acceleration in cryogenic pool boiling
2026 · npj Microgravity
Shows how gravity affects boiling heat transfer by testing liquid nitrogen in near-zero gravity.
- Simultaneous Heat and Electricity Storage in a Flow Battery System
2025 · ACS Omega
Demonstrates a battery system that stores both heat and electricity at the same time.
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- Advanced Thermal Interface Materials: Insights into Low‐Temperature Sintering and High Thermal Conductivity of MgO
2025 · Advanced Materials
Tests whether magnesium oxide can improve heat dissipation in electric vehicle batteries.
- Interactive Haptic System with Multimodal Tactile Sensing and Hydraulic Feedback for Realistic Human–Machine Interaction
2024 · Advanced Intelligent Systems
Builds a robotic hand and wearable device to mimic touch sensations for human-robot interactions.
- Predicting supercooling of phase change materials in arbitrarily varying conditions
2023 · Cell Reports Physical Science
Creates a model to predict how phase change materials cool under different conditions.
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