Patents

(and Patent Applications)

• An Approach for Altering Wetting Properties of Metallic Surfaces, Inventor: Krishna Kota (submitted, 2017).
• Compact, High-effective Cryogenic Heat Exchanger, Inventor: Krishna Kota (submitted, 2016).
• A Real-time Feedback Control System for Data Center Cooling, Co-Inventor: Krishna Kota (submitted).
• Cooling Technique, Co-Inventor: Krishna Kota, US 9,557,118.
• A Mechanically-reattachable Liquid-cooled Cooling Apparatus, Co-Inventor: Krishna Kota, US 8,542,489.
• Cooling Apparatus for Communications Platforms, Co-Inventor: Krishna Kota, US 20120279683 A1.
• Miniature High Speed Compressor Having Embedded Permanent Magnet Motor, Co-Inventor: Krishna Kota, US 7,942,646 B2.

Journals

• Lazar Cvijovic, Pranav Sivakumar, Krishna Kota, “Considerations for Achieving Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancements on Binary Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 5^th/6^th ASTFE Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Virtual Conference, May 26-28, 2021. 
• Ana Johnson, Lei Mu, Young H. Park, Delia J. Valles, Huiyao Wang, Pei Xu, Krishna Kota, Sarada Kuravi, “A Thermal Model for Predicting the Performance of a Solar Still with Fresnel Lens”, Water, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 1860 (20 pages), 2019. (IF = 2.524) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11091860
• Lei Mu, Rocio Castillo Gomez, Lin Chen, Young-Ho Park, Huiyao Wang, Krishna Kota, Pei Xu, Sarada Kuravi, “Performance Enhancement of a Single Basin Single Slope Solar Still Using Fresnel Lens’, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 239, pp. 118094 (13 pages), 2019. (IF = 6.395) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118094
• Nicolas DeLovato, Kavin Sundarnath, Lazar Cvijovic, Krishna Kota, Sarada Kuravi, “A Review of Heat Recovery Applications for Solar and Geothermal Power Plants,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 114, pp. 109329 (19 pages), 2019. (IF = 10.556) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.109329
• Lazar Cvijovic, Krishna Kota, “Creating Highly Wettable Paper Towel-Like Aluminum Surfaces Through Tuned Bulk Micro-Manufacturing,” The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 98, No. 9, pp. 2601-2609, 2018. (IF = 2.601) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-2290-5
• Roberto Venegas, Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Mary McCay, “Comparative Design Analysis of Geothermal and Solar Thermal Power Plants: A Case Study,” International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 625-634, 2018.
• Jessica Reyes, Krishna Kota, “Convective Performance of a Dielectric Liquid in a Channel with Conducting-Lubricating (CO-LUB) Walls for Liquid Cooling of Electronics,” International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 89, No. 12, pp. 147-153, 2017.
• Seyedali Seyedkavoosi, Saeed Javan, Krishna Kota, “Exergy-based Optimization of an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for Waste Heat Recovery from an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE),” Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 126, No. 11, pp. 447-457, 2017.
• Ryan Holguin, Krishna Kota, Stephen Wootton, Ruey-Hung Chen, Sean Ross, “Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer on Binary Surfaces,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 114, No. 11, pp. 1105-1113, 2017.
• Nicholas Clegg, Krishna Kota, Xin He, Sean Ross, “Achieving Ultra-Omniphilic Wettability on Copper using a Facile, Scalable, Tuned Bulk Micromanufacturing Approach,” ASME Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing, Vol. 5, No. 3, 031003 (1-7), 2017.
• Krishna Kota, Ludovic Burton, Yogendra Joshi, “Thermal Performance of an Air-cooled Heat Sink Channel with Microscale Dimples under Transitional Flow Conditions,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 135, No. 11, 111005 (1-9), 2013 (nominated by the Associate Editor to appear in this special issue on High Heat Flux Cooling of Electronics) (doi: 10.1115/1.4024598).
• Krishna Kota, Pablo Hidalgo, Yogendra Joshi, Ari Glezer, “Hybrid Liquid Immersion and Synthetic Jet Heat Sink for Cooling 3-D Stacked Electronics,” Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 817-824, 2012.
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Quinn Leland, “Laminar Film Condensation Driven Latent Thermal Energy Storage in Rectangular Containers,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 1208-1217, 2012.
• Liang Gong, Krishna Kota, Wenquan Tao, Yogendra Joshi, “Thermal Performance of Microchannels with Wavy Walls for Electronics Cooling,” Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 1029-1035, 2011.
• Liang Gong, Krishna Kota, Wenquan Tao, Yogendra Joshi, “Parametric Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Microchannels with Wavy Walls,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 133, No. 5, 051702 (1-10), 2011.
• Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Jianhua Du, Louis Chow, “Numerical Investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer Performance of Nano-Encapsulated Phase Change Material (NEPCM) Slurry in Microchannels,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 131, 062901 (1-9), 2009.
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Quinn Leland, “Heat Transfer Performance of a Dual Latent Heat Sink for Pulsed Heat Loads,” International Journal of Aerospace, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1078-1087, 2009 (selected as one of the most outstanding technical papers of the year).
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Jianhua Du, Jayanta Kapat, Quinn Leland, Richard Harris, “Numerical Simulation of Heat Storage Phenomenon in a Dual Latent Heat Sink,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 148-156, 2009.
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Jianhua Du, Jayanta Kapat, Quinn Leland, Richard Harris, “Design of a Dual Latent Heat Sink for Pulsed Electronic Systems,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 572-580, 2008.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Lazar Cvijovic, Pranav Sivakumar, Krishna Kota, “Considerations for Achieving Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancements on Binary Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 5^th/6^th ASTFE Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Virtual Conference, May 26-28, 2021.
• John Krizmanic, Neerav Shah, Alice Harding, Phil Calhoun, Lloyd Purves, Cassandra Webster, Steven Stochaj, Kyle Rankin, Daniel Smith, Hyeongjun Park, Laura Boucheron, Krishna Kota, Michael Corcoran, Chris Shrader, Asal Naseri, “VTXO: the Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observations,” Proceedings of the 2020 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference (organized virtually), December 13, 2020.
• John Krizmanic, Neerav Shah, Alice Harding, Phil Calhoun, Lloyd Purves, Cassandra Webster, Steven Stochaj, Kyle Rankin, Daniel Smith, Hyeongjun Park, Laura Boucheron, Krishna Kota, Michael Corcoran, Chris Shrader, Asal Naseri, “VTXO: the Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observations,” Proceedings of the 34th Annual Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat 2020), Logan, UT, August 1-6, 2020.
• Lazar Cvijovic, Pranav Sivakumar, Krishna Kota, “Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement on Binary Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 5th ASTFE Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 5-8, 2020.
• Jessica Reyes*, Krishna Kota, “Computational Study of the Effect of Lubricating Layer Thickness on Forced Convection in a Channel,” 4^th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Atlanta, GA, July 6-8, 2016.
• Jason Shelby*, Krishna Kota, “Design of a High-effective, Compact Wavy Cryogenic Heat Recuperator,” Proceedings of 2015 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, TX, November 14-20, 2015.
• Mohamed El-Genk, Arthur Suszko, Krishna Kota, “Nucleate Boiling of PF-5060 on Inclined Dimpled Surfaces,” Proceedings of the 1st ASTFE Thermal and Fluid Engineering Conference, New York, NY, August 9-12, 2015.
• Roberto Venegas*, Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Troy Nguyen, Mary McCay, “Review of Geothermal and Solar Thermal Power Plants and a Comparative Design Analysis,” ASME 2015 Power Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, June 28–July 2, 2015.
• Jessica Reyes*, Krishna Kota, “Numerical Modeling of Forced Convective Transport in a Channel with Conducting-Lubricating (CO-LUB) Surfaces,” Joint 2015 ASME International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems and the 2015 International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, San Francisco, CA, July 6-9, 2015. 
• Krishna Kota, Mohamed Awad, “Understanding the Impact of Flow Bypass on the Heat Transfer Performance of Air-Cooled Heat Sinks,” Proceedings of 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Montreal, Canada, November 14-20, 2014. 
• Krishna Kota, Mohamed Awad, “Understanding the Impact of Flow Bypass on the Overall Pressure Drop of Air-Cooled Heat Sinks,” Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Orlando, Florida, May 27-30, 2014.
• Ashish Sinha, Krishna Kota, Pablo Hidalgo, Yogendra Joshi, Ari Glezer, “Novel Immersion Cooling Technique for a 3D Chip Stack,” Proceedings of ASME 2013 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, Burlingame, California, July 16-18, 2013.  DOI: 10.1115/IPACK2013-73039. 
• Krishna Kota, Diana Sobers, Paul Kolodner, Nikhil Bajaj, Jen-Hau Cheng, Elina Simon, Todd Salamon, “Numerical and Experimental Studies of Ultra Low Profile Three-dimensional Air-cooled Heat Sinks made using a Novel Manufacturing Method,” Proceedings of The 13th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, San Diego, California, May 30 – June 1, 2012. 
• Krishna Kota, Ludovic Burton, Yogendra Joshi, “Thermal Performance of an Air-cooled Heat Sink with Microscale Dimples under Transitional Flow Conditions,” Proceedings of The 13th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, San Diego, California, May 30 – June 1, 2012. 
• Krishna Kota, Liang Gong, Wenquan Tao, Yogendra Joshi, “Effect of Wall Roughness on Thermal Performance of Wavy Microchannels,” The 10th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications, Leuven, Belgium, November 30 – December 3, 2010.
• Liang Gong, Krishna Kota, Wenquan Tao, Yogendra Joshi, “Parametric Numerical Study of Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy Microchannels,” Proceedings of 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, November 12-18, 2010.
• Liang Gong, Krishna Kota, Wenquan Tao, Yogendra Joshi, “Thermal Performance of Microchannels with Wavy Walls for Electronics Cooling,” Proceedings of The 12^th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2-5, 2010. 
• Krishna Kota, Pablo Hidalgo, Yogendra Joshi, Ari Glezer, “A Novel Conduction-Convection based Cooling Solution for 3D Stacked Electronics,” Proceedings of The 26th IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, February 21-25, 2010. 
• Krishna Kota, Pablo Hidalgo, Yogendra Joshi, Ari Glezer, “Thermal Management of a 3D Chip Stack using a Liquid Interface to a Synthetic Jet-Cooled Spreader,” Proceedings of 15th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, Leuven, Belgium, October 7-9, 2009.
• Yeong-Ren Lin, Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Quinn Leland, “Thermal Energy Storage for Directed Energy Weapons”, Proceedings of 41st AIAA Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 22-25, 2009.
• Quinn Leland, Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, “Optimization of Film Condensation Driven Thermal Energy Storage Containers,” Proceedings of 2009 US-EU-China Thermophysics Conference – Renewable Energy, Beijing, China, May 28-30, 2009. 
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Quinn Leland, “Heat Transfer Performance of a Dual Latent Heat Sink for Pulsed Heat Loads,” Proceedings of SAE 2008 Power Systems Conference, Seattle, WA, November 11-13, 2008. 
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Jianhua Du, Jayanta Kapat, Quinn Leland, Richard Harris, “Numerical Simulation of Heat Storage Phenomenon in a Dual Latent Heat Sink,” Proceedings of 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008.
• Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Jianhua Du, Louis Chow, David Colvin, “Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in a Microchannel Heat Sink with Micro-Encapsulated Phase Change Material (MEPCM) Slurry,” Proceedings of A/JSME Heat Transfer Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 8-12, 2007. 
• Krishna Kota, Louis Chow, Jianhua Du, Jayanta Kapat, Quinn Leland, Richard Harris, “Conceptual Design of a Dual Latent Heat Sink for Thermal Management of Pulse Heat Generating Electronic Systems,” Proceedings of 39th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Miami, FL, June 25-28, 2007.
• Liping Zheng, Thomas Wu, Dipjyoti Acharya, Kalpathy Sundaram, Jay Vaidya, Limei Zhao, Lei Zhou, Krishna Kota, Chan Ham, Nagaraj Arakere, Jayanta Kapat, Louis Chow, “Design of a Super-High Speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for Cryogenic Applications,” Proceedings of IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, May, 2005.
• William Notardonato, George Haddad, Krishna Kota, Jinying Zhu, Jay Kapat, Louis Chow, “Miniature Joule Thomson Cryocoolers for Propellant Management,” Proceedings of 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, November 13-19, 2004.
• Liping Zheng, Thomas Wu, Jay Vaidya, Dipjyoti Acharya, Krishna Kota, Limei Zhao, Chan Ham, Kalpathy Sundaram, Jay Kapat, Louis Chow, “Design and Simulation of a Cryogenic Electrical Motor,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Monterey, CA, June 20-26, 2004. 
• Krishna Kota, Sarada Kuravi, “Conceptual Motorbike Designing,” Proceedings of The All India Mechanical Engineering Students Meet (Dynamechs 2001), India, October 18-20, 2001.

  Book Chapters

• Sarada Kuravi, Krishna Kota, Kavin Sundarnath, “Nanocomposite Materials for Latent Thermal Energy Storage,” Nanocomposite Materials: Fundamentals and Practical Applications, Eds. Manoj Ram, Elias Stefanakos, CRC press, ISBN: 9781482240115 (submitted).
• Yogendra Joshi, Xiaojin Wei, Bo Dang, Krishna Kota, “Some Aspects of Microchannel Heat Transfer,” Nano-Bio- Electronic, Photonic and MEMS Packaging, Eds. C.P. Wong, Kyoung-Sik Moon, and Yi Li, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 431-477, 2010 (invited).
• Louis Chow, Jayanta Kapat, Krishna Kota, “Mesoscopic Energy Systems,” Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Eds. Vish Prasad, Yogesh Jaluria, and Gang Chen, Vol. 14, pp. 475-509, 2005 (invited; Prof. Chang-Lin Tien’s memorial volume).

Conference Presentations

• Lazar Cvijovic, Rob Clay, Pranav Sivakumar, Krishna Kota, Vimal Chaitanya, “Changing the way water boils on surfaces,” New Mexico Academy of Science Research Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, October 27, 2018 (poster).
• Lei Mu, Thomas Williams, Claire Debroux, Kami Ruebush, Mirka Holguin, Rocio Castillo-Gomez, Young-Ho Park, Krishna Kota, Pei Xu, Huiyao Wang, and Sarada Kuravi, “Effect of Fresnel Lens on the Performance of a Single-Basin Single-Slope Solar Still”, New Mexico WRRI Conference 2018, Las Cruces, NM, October 2018 (poster).
• Joshua Budish, Lazar Cvijovic, Krishna Kota, Ruey-Hung Chen, Sean Ross, “A New Approach for the Cooling of Laser Weapon Systems,” NMSU University Research Council Fair, Las Cruces, NM, April 4, 2018 (poster).
• Mario Saldana, Michael Hulse, Steven Isaacs, Greg Shoukas, Mark Lake, Krishna Kota, Don Sipes, “Two-Phase Thermal Management Components for Directed Energy,” DEPS Directed Energy Systems Symposium, Monterey, CA, September 25-29, 2017.
• Liping Zheng, Thomas Wu, Jay Vaidya, Krishna Kota, Limei Zhao, Chan Ham, Kalpathy Sundaram, Jayanta Kapat, Louis Chow, “Design of a Super-High Speed PMSM for Cryocooler Application,” Space Cryogenics Workshop, Anchorage, AK, September 18-19, 2003.
• Linan An, Quanfang Chen, Joe Cho, Louis Chow, Neelkanth Dhere, Chan Ham, Jayanta Kapat, Kalpathy Sundaram, Thomas Wu, Kevin Finney, George Haddad, Xiaoyi Li, Krishna Kota, William Notardonato, Anil Pai, Hubert Seigneur, Jay Vaidya, Limei Zhao, Liping Zheng, Lei Zhou, “Two-Stage Cryocooler Development for Liquid Hydrogen Systems,” Space Cryogenics Workshop, Anchorage, AK, September 18-19, 2003.
• Linan An, Quinn Chen, Joe Cho, Louis Chow, Neelkanth Dhere, Chan Ham, Jay Kapat, Kalpathy Sundaram, Thomas Wu, Kevin Finney, Xiaoyi Li, Krishna Kota, Anil Pai, Hubert Seigneur, Limei Zhao, Liping Zheng, Lei Zhou, “Two-Stage Cryocooler Development for Liquid Hydrogen Systems,” Annual Joint Symposium of the Florida Society of Microscopy and the Florida Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, Orlando, FL, March 17-20, 2003.

Published Technical Reports

• Louis Chow, Jian Du, Amit Gupta, Krishna Kota, Ranganathan Kumar, Sarada Kuravi, “Microchannel Heat Sink with Microencapsulated Phase Change Material Slurry,” Final Report to ONR N00014-06-1-1120, 2009.
• Jayanta Kapat, Louis Chow, Jinying Zhu, Krishna Kota, Yeong-Ren Lin, “Miniature Joule Thomson (JT) Cryocoolers for Refrigerated Transfer Lines,” NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Project Funding Report, 2003.