Carlos Hidrovo
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- hidrovo@northeastern.edu
- 334 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Office
- 207 SN
- 617.373.7520
Lab
- 160 EC
- 617.373.6296
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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
- Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-2023
- 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
Selected Research Projects
- Elucidating the True Role of Surface Microtexturing in Friction Reduction and Enhanced Convective Heat Transfer
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Formation and Transport Dynamics of High Speed Gas Liquid Droplet Microfluidics
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Y. Salamat, C.H. Hidrovo, Significance of the Micropores Electro-Sorption Resistance and Non-Electrostatic Adsorption in Capacitive Deionization Systems, Water Research, 169, 2020, 115286
- P. Tirandazi, C.H. Hidrovo, Study of Drag Reduction using Periodic Spanwise Grooves on Incompressible Viscous Laminar Flows, Physical Review Fluids, 5(6), 2020, 064102
- 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
May 18, 2022
Announcing Summer 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Summer 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards.
May 10, 2022
Hidrovo Selected as U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia
Associate Professor Carlos Hidrovo, mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, was selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-2023 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, in the spring of 2023.
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”.