Research
Advanced manufacturing for high energy systems
My work includes hands on design and fabrication with ceramics, metals, and polymers:
Additively manufactured (AM) alumina and mullite porous media burners
Development of non-oxide ceramics for AM, such as silicon and aluminum nitrides, for aerospace applications
Micro-AM microfluidic structures for in operando high energy X-ray CT
Development of micro-AM gas diffusion layers for electrochemical CO2 conversion
Non-Oxide Ceramics
Non-oxide ceramics, such as silicon nitride and aluminum nitride are incredibly useful technical ceramics, but are difficult to 3D print with a high resolution DLP printer. My work has been, in part, to develop ceramic feedstocks, design components, print, and test them.
Recent work is examining how best to optimize the print process while developing novel methods to improve feedstocks.
Micro-additive manufacturing
My work with the Nanoscribe Photonic Professional GT2 two-photon polymerization printer includes the development of polymer microfluidic structures, ceramic precursor resins, and glass inks.
Microfluidic structures, like the one here, were printed on custom substrates and imaged in operando at ANL’s Advanced Photon Source to examine the impact of coatings and surface morphology on pressure driven flow.
A selection of authored works:
Integrating Bio-Inspired Morphologies into Porous Media Burners: Experimental and Computational Insights on Interphase Heat Exchange
2024 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4835747
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas DiReda; Sadaf Sobhani; Giancarlo D’Orazio; Aniruddha Saha
Dynamic stability of porous media burners and sensitivity to oscillating inlet conditions
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
2024 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2024.105364
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas DiReda; James Ringsby; Giancarlo D’Orazio; Aniruddha Saha; Sadaf Sobhani
Thermal and structural performance of additively manufactured ceramic porous media burners
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
2024-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2023.11.001
CONTRIBUTORS: Nicholas DiReda*; Giancarlo D’Orazio*; Sadaf Sobhani
*Co-First-Authorship
Additive Manufacturing and Working Fluid Characterization of Ceramic Heat Pipes
AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum
2024-01-08 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-1792
CONTRIBUTORS: Giancarlo D'Orazio; William R. Sixel; Sadaf Sobhani
Non-Oxide Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Processes for Aerospace Applications
AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum
2023-01-23 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.2514/6.2023-0315
CONTRIBUTORS: Giancarlo D'Orazio; Grace E. Falanga; Zachariah Chazen; Jason Jones; Sadaf Sobhani
Impacts on Head Loss in a Pumpless Solar Thermal Heater Calculated by Hardy-Cross Methodology
Volume 8: Energy
2020-11-16 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1115/imece2020-23514
ISBN: 9780791884560
Student Experiential Learning Through Design and Development of a Subsurface Melting Head for NASA RASCAL-Special Edition Competition
Volume 9: Engineering Education
2020-11-16 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1115/imece2020-23287
ISBN: 9780791884577
A Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Project: Development of an Autonomous Rover For Mars Exploration
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2019-06-15 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--31976