Carlos Hidrovo
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- hidrovo@northeastern.edu
- 334 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Social Media
Office
- 207 SN
- 617.373.7520
Lab
- 160 EC
- 617.373.6296
Research Focus
Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems
Education
- PhD (2001), Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honors & Awards
- CAREER Award (2012), National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship (2009), Gordon Research Conferences (GRC)
- Young Faculty Award (YFA) (2008), Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA)
- Robert T. Knapp Award (2001), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Teaching Interests
- Thermal fluid sciences – fluid mechanics, heat transfer and thermodynamics
- Experimental and laboratory techniques
Professional Affiliations
- American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society
- US Association for Computational Mechanics
Research Overview
Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- P. Tirandazi, C.H. Hidrovo, An Integrated Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidic Platform for Digital Sampling and Detection of Airborne Targets, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 267, 2018, 279-293
- Y. Salamat, C.H. Hidrovo, A Parametric Study of Multiscale Transport Phenomena and Performance Characteristics of Capacitive Deionization Systems, Desalination, 438(7), 2018, 24-36
- P. Tirandazi, C.H. Hidrovo, Liquid In-Gas Droplet Microfluids; Experimental Characterization of Droplet Morphology, Generation Frequency, and Monodispersity in a Flow-Focusing Microfluidic Device, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 27(7), 2017, 075020-9
- T.J. Kim, M. Kim, S. Hann, J. Trejo, C.H. Hidrovo, Thermal Characterization of Microheated Microchannels with Spatially Resolved Two-Color Fluorescence Thermometry, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 24(1), 2015, 115-125
- R.S. Hale, R. Ranjan, C.H. Hidrovo, Capillary Flow through Rectangular Micropillar Arrays, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 75, 2014, 710-717
- O.N. Demirer, C.H. Hidrovo, Laser Induced Fluorescence Visualization of Ion Transport in a Pseudo-Porous Capacitive Deionization Microstructure, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 16(1-2), 2014, 109-122
May 21, 2020
Patent for Generating Precise Liquid Droplets for Biochemical Sensing
MIE Assistant Professor Carlos Hidrovo was awarded a patent for “Platform for liquid droplet formation and isolation.”
Jun 27, 2018
Hidrovo Awarded NSF Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Carlos Hidrovo was awarded a $291K NSF Grant for determining the "Formation and Transport Dynamics of High Speed Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics". Abstract Source: NSF The goal of this project is to understand liquid droplet formation and transport dynamics in gaseous microfluidic systems, including compressibility effects. Understanding liquid droplet formation and transport in […]
Aug 24, 2017
Hidrovo Awarded $309K NSF Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Carlos Hidrovo Chavez was awarded a $309K NSF grant for “Elucidating the True Role of Surface Microtexturing in Friction Reduction and Enhanced Convective Heat Transfer”.