Foreword - Special issue on emerging technologies

Abstract

for pursuing multidisciplinary research on complex systems. She has contributed six book chapters, one McGraw Hill Custom Textbook, and over 140 refereed articles in education and research literature. Her research pioneered the development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for formulating and solving thermal design problems subject to multidisciplinary competing constraints. This led to her creation of a multi-stage concurrent thermal design methodology based on hierarchical model refinement, which combines CFD, non-deterministic experiments and Bayesian statistics. She has also made seminal contributions on self-sustained oscillatory flows and thermal management of electronics, elucidating flow destabilization mechanisms which induce heat transfer enhancement with chaotic mixing; quantifying conjugate time-dependent effects in electronic packages with multi length and time scales; and developing on-demand recuperative transient thermal management technologies for portable electronics.