| Dr. Sunny Li received his MASc and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. Before joining the University of British Columbia, he worked as a research scientist at GE Global Research, NY, USA. He is a registered Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. Dr. Li is an expert of thermal management and electronics cooling. His research also focuses on multiphase flows such as sprays, atomization, and droplet dynamics. His research was funded or in collaboration with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA) and DOE (Department of Energy, USA), GE Aviation, GE Energy, and Xerox. Dr. Li mainly published in journals such as Physics of Fluids, Journal of Heat Transfer, Physical Review E, AIChE Journal, and Langmuir.
Thermal issues are ubiquitous in many engineering applications. Researchers and engineers in the field of thermal engineering need to find solutions to many thermal problems in components, devices, systems, and processes. This has particular importance for the electronics industry, where the continued advance in electronics has generated increasingly challenging thermal issues due to the rising number of devices packaged in tightened space. This has led to increasing demand for effective cooling solutions capable of dissipating enormous amounts of heat through small areas and keeping active devices within their operating temperature ranges.
A few research and development projects related to the thermal management and electronics cooling will be presented. The ideas and solutions for addressing varied thermal problems will be discussed. The cooling methods include passive cooling, active air and liquid cooling, which are suitable for handling varied heat fluxes. Additionally, the heat transfer involved in the icing of water droplets on surfaces will be discussed.
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