Younggil Park

Associate Professor
Younggil Park

Phone 863-874-8606

Location Main Campus

Office BARC-1175

Directory Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Younggil Park is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at 91Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Polytechnic University. Before joining 91Âé¶¹Ó³»­ Poly, he was an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas-Pan American.

Park has published 15 research papers in peer-reviewed journals in thermal-fluid sciences and engineering education. From 2016 to 2018, he was a co-PI of South Texas Industrial Assessment Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. From 2015 to 2017, he organized and directed K-12 engineering summer camps supported by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and University Transportation Center for Railway Safety.

  • Excellence award in faculty mentoring, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2017
  • Supervisor of the year nomination, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2016
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1999
  • Heat exchangers
  • Nanofluid heat transfer
  • Convective heat and mass transfer
  • Liquid spreading on surfaces
  • Low energy use thermal systems
  • Park, Y., 2018, ҠApplied Thermal Engineering 131, 311-319.
  • Belmares, M., Park, Y., 2014, “,†14th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, West Lafayette, IN.
  • Wang, Q., Han, X., Sommers, A. D., Park, Y., T’Joen, C., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “,†International Journal of Refrigeration 35(1) 7-26.
  • Han, X., Wang, Q., Park, Y., T’Joen, C., Sommers, A. D., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “,†Heat Transfer Engineering 33(12) 991-1009.
  • Dai, Z., Nawaz, K., Park, Y. G., Chen, Q., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “,†Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 21-30.
  • Liu, L., Kim, E. S., Park, Y., and Jacobi, A. M., 2012, “,†Heat Transfer Engineering 33(1) 31-41.
  • Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, “,†Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 34(6) 720-724.
  • Henderson, K., Park, Y., Liu, L., and Jacobi, A. M., 2010, “,†International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53(5-6) 944-951.
  • Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, “,†Journal of Heat Transfer 131(6) 061801.
  • Park, Y. and Jacobi, A. M., 2009, “,†Journal of Heat Transfer 131(2) 021801.

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