Project Characterization and Testing of Thermal Systems with Environmentally Friendly Working Fluids Program Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research Program Term Fall 2025 Status Closed Research Area Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Design Description Work on a medium-sized research team on experimental and numerical investigations of thermal systems with environmentally friendly working fluids. Specific areas are compressor design, fluid property characterization, heat exchanger optimization and multi-phase fluid flow characterization. Applications for this work are heating and cooling of buildings, high power electronics, data centers, fuel cells and industrial processes Supervisor Riley Bradley Barta Mentor Type of work required Hands-on conducting and development of experimental work at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories. Numerical aspects would be data analysis, interpretation of experimental results, or the development of correlations based on experimental results Websites https://engineering.purdue.edu/BartaGroup/research Qualifications Thermodynamics 1 required, Thermodynamics 2, Heat and Mass Transfer or Fluid Mechanics desired. Credit Hours 3 Weekly Hours 10 (estimated)