News
2026
2022
- Prof. Ryan awarded seed funding from the Sloan Foudation for collaborations with Arizona State University on CO2 conversion.
- Sam Brush successfully defended his masters thesis, Characterization of an Activated Aluminum Slurry and Design of an Aluminum Slurry-Fueled Field Cooking System.
- Madison Morey was award an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Ziqing (Jack) Zhao was awarded an NSF INTERN Supplemental award for an internship at Argonne National Laboarotory working on electrode degradation in lithium batteries.
- Madison Morey was awarded an NSF INTERN Supplemental award for an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working on the effects of surface energy on dendrite formation in lithium batteries.
2020
- Prof. Ryan named a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emission Sciences by Research Corporation for Scientific Advancements.
- Prof. Ryan awarded NSF EGAR funding on modeling dendrite growth in batteries.
- Kathleen Dupre successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.
- Prof. Ryan awarded DOE SBIR Phase 2A subcontract on CO2 capture research.
2019
- Erin Arai successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.
- Dr. Ryan and Andrew presented their research on battery cycling and battery separator effects on dendrite growth at ECS in Dallas.
2017
- Dr. Ryan received NSF award for the design of heterogeneous hierarchical porous media.
- Erin received DOE fellowship.
- Andrew Cannon joined CEL.
- Kathy Dupre passed her qualification.
- David Wagner defended his MS thesis and received his MS in Mechanical Engineering.
- Dr. Ryan was named Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage.
- Dr. Ryan gave a seminar at Tufts University, Mechanical Engineering Department.
- Dr. Ryan gave an invited talk on dendrite growth in lithium batteries at the TMS conference in San Diego, CA.
- Dr. Ryan presented research on caviation in fuel injectors at the Advanced Engine Combustion (AEC) review meeting at Sandia National Laboratory.
2016
- Dr. Ryan was part of the team awarded R&D 100 Award for CCSI Toolset.
- Kathy Dupre joins the CEL
- William Lane successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
- David Wagner joins the CEL
- Erin Arai successfully completed her Ph.D. qualifying exam.
- Dr. Ryan receives DOE award to develop numerical models of bubble cavitation.
2015
- Dr. Ryan gave a seminar at Center for Computational Sciences: Using nunmerical methods to engineer the next generation of energy systems
- Dr. Jinwang Tan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
- William Lane received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
- Professor Ryan receives Hariri Research Award to develop materials informatics approaches to identify novel electrolytes for Lithium batteries.
- Professor Ryan receives Dean’s Catalyst Award to investigate novel fabrication methods for high energy density battery cathodes.
- Christopher Moulder defended his thesis and received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
- William Lane successfully defended his prospectus.
- Jinwang Tan successfully defended his prospectus and Sandra Abago passed her qualifying examination.
- Tatiana Sokolinski received her M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering.
2014
- Dr. Ryan presented on our work on materials informatics and lithium air batteries at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA.
- Dr. Ryan awarded contract from PNNL to study carbon capture.
- William Lane presented his work on gas-solid heat transfer subgrid models at ASME IMECE in Montreal, Canada.
- Dr. Ryan named Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow.
- Dr. Ryan and William Lane present their work on carbon capture at the CCSI Industry Advisory Board Meeting.
- Sandra Abago and Erin Arai join the CEL.
- Dr. Ryan awarded contract from PNNL to study degradation in SOFCs.
2013
- Dr. Ryan awarded a Samsung Global Research Outreach grant for the investigation of dendrite growth in lithium batteries.
- Dr. Ryan awarded a Young Faculty Travel Grant from the High Temperature Materials Division for travel to the 224th ECS Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
- William Lane presented on our work on uncertainty analysis of a bubbling fluidized bed at the ASME Summer Fluids Engineering Conference in Incline Village, NV.
- Benjamin Schrage received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
- Dr. Ryan presented on our work on validation and uncertainty analysis in fluidized beds at the ASME Validation and Verification Symposium in Las Vegas, NV.
- Jinwang Tan recieved a travel award to present a poster on modeling of dendrite growth in Li-air batteries at the spring Electrochemical Society meeting in Toronto, Canada.
- Dr. Ryan presented our work on uncertainty analysis of a bubbling fluidized bed for the CCSI.
2012
- Dr. Ryan presented on the validation and uncertainty analysis of computational fluid dynamics modeling for the CCSI.
- Dr. Ryan presented on computational fluid dynamics modeling of post combustion carbon capture modeling at the ASME Summer Fluids Engineering Conference in Puerto Rico.
- Dr. Ryan presented on transport modeling of Li-Air batteries at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA.
- Dr. Ryan presented on validation and uncertainty analysis of post combustion carbon capture systems at the ASME Validation and Verification Symposium in Las Vegas, NV.
- Dr. Ryan presented on computational fluid dynamics modeling at the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
- William Lane, Ben Schrage and Jinwang Tan join the CEL.
- Dr. Ryan joins the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Boston University.