Younggil Park

Dr. Younggil Park is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Florida Polytechnic University. Before joining Florida Poly, he was an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas-Pan American.

Park has published 15 research papers in peer-reviewed journals in thermal-fluid sciences and engineering education. From 2016 to 2018, he was a co-PI of South Texas Industrial Assessment Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 2015 to 2017, he organized and directed K-12 engineering summer camps supported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and University Transportation Center for Railway Safety.

Awards and Honors

• Excellence award in faculty mentoring, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2017
• Supervisor of the year nomination, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2016

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1999

Expertise

• Heat exchangers
• Nanofluid heat transfer
• Convective heat and mass transfer
• Liquid spreading on surfaces
• Low energy use thermal systems

Select Publications

• Park, Y., 2018, “Correcting energy balance error in heat exchanger data by maximum likelihood method,” Applied Thermal Engineering 131, 311-319.
• Belmares, M., Park, Y., 2014, “Hydrodynamic Modeling of Flow Reversal in Micro-channel Flow Boiling,” 14th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, West Lafayette, IN.
• Wang, Q., Han, X., Sommers, A. D., Park, Y., T’Joen, C., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “A review on application of carbonaceous materials and carbon matrix composites for heat exchangers and heat sinks,” International Journal of Refrigeration 35(1) 7-26.
• Han, X., Wang, Q., Park, Y., T’Joen, C., Sommers, A. D., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “A review of metal foam and metal matrix composites for heat exchangers and heat sinks,” Heat Transfer Engineering 33(12) 991-1009.
• Dai, Z., Nawaz, K., Park, Y. G., Chen, Q., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “A comparison of metal-foam heat exchangers to compact multi-louver designs for air-side heat transfer applications,” Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 21-30.
• Liu, L., Kim, E. S., Park, Y., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “The potential impact of nanofluid enhancements on the performance of heat exchangers,” Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 31-41.
• Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, “Rational approaches for combining redundant, independent measurements to minimize combined experimental uncertainty,” Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 34(6) 720-724.
• Henderson, K., Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, “Flow-boiling of R-134a-based nanofluids in a horizontal tube,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53(5-6) 944-951.
• Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, “The air-side thermal-hydraulic performance of flat-tube heat exchangers with louvered, wavy, and plain fins under dry and wet conditions,” Journal of Heat Transfer 131(6) 061801.
• Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, “Air-side heat transfer and friction correlations for flat-tube, louver-fin heat exchangers,” Journal of Heat Transfer 131(2) 021801.