News
11/14/25: Ashok successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
10/14/25: Maheswar, Ashok and Prof. Maroo publish in AI Thermal Fluids: "Flat superhydrophilic coating and machine learning of co-sputtered coatings for wettability prediction"
10/10/25: Ashok, Maheswar, Ryan and Prof. Maroo publish in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer: "Thermodynamic and thermal perspectives of failure in oscillating heat pipe " (Open Access) This study reveals two novel criteria for predicting operational failure in oscillating heat pipes (OHPs) — addressing a long-standing unsolved issue in the OHP research community!
9/29/25: Ashok, Maheswar and Teja publish in ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer: "Thermal Performance of Embedded Oscillating Heat Pipe With Dielectric Fluid FC-72 and Direct Condenser Heat Output Measurement"
8/21/25: Ashok, Maheswar, Ryan and Prof. Maroo publish in Applied Thermal Engineering: "Thermal conductivity of water, ethanol, methanol and dielectric FC-72 in oscillating heat pipe" (Open Access) This work shows that thermal conductivity of a fluid in an oscillating heat pipe can be as high as ~67,000 W/mK, which is over 20 times that of diamond!
8/19/25: Maheswar, Ashok and Prof. Maroo publish in Surfaces and Interfaces: "Water-Resistant and Durable Superhydrophobic Surface using Carbon Soot and Porous Silica Inverse Opal" (Open Access)
10/07/25: Ashok is awarded the "Outstanding Student/Postdoc Presentation" for his talk titled “Thermodynamic Perspective of Failures in Oscillating Heat Pipe” at the ASME 2025 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC)!
08-10/07/25: Ashok delivers three technical presentations on oscillating heat pipes at the ASME 2025 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC) in Westminster, Colorado!
3/26/25: Ashok wins the 2nd place prize at 2025 ECS research day for his research on oscillating heat pipes!
3/26/25: Ashok presents poster in ECS research day!
8/05/24: Ashok is covered in news by capitalnepal!
3/22/24: Ashok wins the 2nd place prize at 2024 ECS research day for his research on oscillating heat pipes!
3/22/24: Ashok presents oral presentation and poster in ECS research day!
8/11/22: Ashok presents his research work on zeolite at ASME 2022 Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC) in Philadelphia!
06/20: Ashok successfully defends his Master thesis!