Ahmad Najafi, PhD, (right), and his doctoral student Reza Pejman (left) are part of a team that developed a program that draws inspiration from the circulatory system to design microvascular cooling ...

Ahmad Najafi, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Grant (NSF CAREER) award for his project ...

The complex network of veins that keeps us cool during the heat of summer has inspired engineers to create novel thermal management systems. But replicating the circulatory system, in form or function ...

Researchers are trying to help electric vehicle batteries keep their cool. A group recently published a design optimization system for incorporating blood vessel-like cooling networks into the ...

Engineers report on how a computational technique they developed can quickly produce designs for 3D printing carbon-fiber composite materials with an internal vasculature optimized for active-cooling.