Sajjad Bigham

Dr. Bigham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is a heat transfer and energy systems specialist interested in scientific and engineering challenges that lay at the intersection of thermal-fluid, material, and energy sciences. At NC State University, he is the director of the Energy-X Lab (Energy eXploration Laboratory).

His lab, Energy-X (www.energyX-lab.com), strives to offer a high-impact research and education program for tackling high-risk, high-reward problems in terrestrial and space life support systems (research thrust 1), advanced thermal management solutions (research thrust 2), clean energy production (research thrust 3), and clean water supply (research thrust 4). This results in the design, modeling, optimization, fabrication, and examination of a wide range of meso-, micro-, and nano-devices/systems to understand their underlying physics and explore new technologies and performance breakthroughs.

Energy-X mission: Energy-X is a research group dedicated to advanced energy science and technology for a sustainable energy future. The increasing global demand for energy has stimulated intense research on energy-efficient technologies that aim to unlock new and disruptive ways to extract, convert, and utilize energy resources. The mission of our lab is to improve energy efficiency, reliability, and economy of the process, component, or system X; with X being our target technological area which spans from the energy sector to defense and environmental applications.

Research Interests:

• Phase-change Phenomena including Boiling and Condensation
• Electronic Thermal Management
• Advanced Heat Pumps, HVAC&R, and Appliances
• Sorption-based Selective Gas Management (e.g., Moisture and Carbon)
• Energy-efficient Thermal Energy Systems
• Multiphase Heat Transfer at Microscale
• Desalination Systems
• Energy Conversion and Storage Devices