Rohini Bala Chandran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on developing computational models integrated with experimental analyses to probe the interplay of heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, and chemical reactions that play a central role in a host of thermal, thermochemical, and electrochemical energy systems. Her group leverages high-performance computing to understand coupled transport and kinetic phenomena, and to perform multi-parameter optimization to design and operate efficient devices for energy conversion and storage. Current research activities in her group focus on solar fuels from water and carbon dioxide, thermal energy storage at high temperatures, and wastewater treatment.
Temperature distributions in a solar thermochemical reactor for water and carbon dioxide splitting predicted by computational modeling.