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Researcher profile

Ayooluwa Akinola

Mechanical Engineering · Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Research Assistant
University of North Texas · Denton, Texas

Research interests
  • Adaptive phase metasurfaces and plasmonic resonances
  • Tunable thermal radiation and near-field emission control
  • Electromagnetic simulation and heat-transfer modeling
  • Optoelectronics and scientific software development
Education

Ph.D. Candidate · Mechanical Engineering

University of North Texas · Denton, Texas

B.Sc. (Hons), Mechanical Engineering

University of Ibadan · Ibadan, Nigeria

Final-year research: Numerical Analysis of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy Microchannels with Bifurcation.

Research experience

Graduate Research Assistant · University of North Texas

Investigating adaptive phase metasurfaces for thermal radiative control and optoelectronics, including plasmonic resonant structures for tunable thermal radiation.

Undergraduate Research Assistant · University of Ibadan

Developed microchannel models to study cooling performance, convective heat transfer, and the effects of bifurcation on fluid flow.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to my Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Richard Z. Zhang, Mechanical and Energy Engineering department, University of North Texas for his guidance and support on this project.

I also gratefully acknowledge Zhoumin Zhang of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech and Misha Polyanskiy of refractiveindex.info.