Energy Technologies Area

Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2001

Watwe, Abhay A., and Ravi S. Prasher."Spreadsheet tool for quick-turn 3D numerical modeling of package thermal performance with non-uniform die heating."ASME-PUBLICATIONS-HTD (2001).

2000

Devpura, Amit, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Percolation theory applied to the analysis of thermal interface materials in flip-chip technology."ITHERM 2000. The Seventh Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (Cat. No.00CH37069) 1 (2000) 21–28. DOI

Devpura, Amit, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Percolation theory applied to study the effect of shape and size of the filler particles in thermal interface materials."American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD 366 (2000) 365–371.

Prasher, Ravi S.."Size and interfacial effects on the thermophysical properties of solid thin films and microstructures." (2000).

De Bellis, Lisa, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Variations of Acoustic and Diffuse Mismatch Models in Predicting Thermal-Boundary Resistance."J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer 14 (2000) 144–150. DOI

1999

Lisa, , D E Bellis, Phelan Patrick E, and Ravi S. Prasher."Thermal Boundary Resistance at a Plane Boundary Using the SMAMM and Various Scattering Mechanisms."Thermal Science and Engineering 7 (1999) 53–60.

Prasher, Ravi S., and Patrick E. Phelan."Non-dimensional size effects on the thermodynamic properties of solids."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 42 (1999) 1991–2001. DOI

1998

Prasher, Ravi S., and Patrick E. Phelan."Size Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Thin Solid Films."J. Heat Transfer 120 (1998) 1078–1081. DOI

De Bellis, Lisa, Ravi S. Prasher, and Patrick E. Phelan."Predicting thermal boundary resistance using Monte Carlo simulation."American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD 361-364 (1998) 221–228.

1997

Prasher, Ravi S., and Patrick E. Phelan."Review of Thermal Boundary Resistance of High-Temperature Superconductors."J. Supercond. 10 (1997) 473. DOI

1995

Phelan, Patrick E., Ravi S. Prasher, and Prajesh Bhattacharya."Nanofluids for Heat Transfer Applications."Annual Review of Heat Transfer 14 (1995) 255-275.