Research highlights, lab milestones, publications, people, and professional activities from ITES Lab.
Dr. Aung Myat joins the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University as an Assistant Professor and establishes the Intelligent Thermal & Energy Systems Laboratory (ITES Lab). The group focuses on intelligent thermal-fluid systems for advanced energy, thermal management, energy storage, computational multiphysics, and AI-enabled digital twins.
Read More →ITES Lab launches aungmyat-ites.com as a central platform for research projects, publications, research-team activities, student opportunities, and lab updates. The site is designed to grow with the group as new projects, people, and research capabilities are added.
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ITES Lab is advancing high-fidelity computational modeling for battery thermal management using the Finite-Volume Discrete Boltzmann Method (FVDBM). Current work examines thermal gradients, hotspot evolution, transient transport, and PCM-based thermal buffering to support safer and more effective battery thermal-management strategies.
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Ongoing ITES Lab research investigates nano-enhanced phase-change materials for thermal energy storage, combining heat transfer, phase change, fluid flow, and multiphysics modeling. The work is being extended toward thermal buffering and thermal-management applications in battery energy-storage systems.
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A review led by Dr. Aung Myat examines experimental, numerical, and AI-driven developments in nanofluid-enhanced HVAC&R systems from 2015–2025 and presents a strategic roadmap for future research.
Read More →A field study of a passive displacement dual-coil cooling system in a tropical hotel environment was published in the Journal of Building Engineering. The work evaluates the performance and practical application of advanced passive-displacement cooling strategies under real operating conditions.
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