Overview

From nanoscale to macroscale, various thermal and fluid phenomena, to which composite molecular-scale physics gets engaged, are of critical importance in the wide range of engineering and industrial processes. In particular, an essential understanding of these phenomena is indispensable to exploit the limit performance of next-generation semiconductor devices by improving thermal dissipation from the device surface or to explore and develop novel polymeric substances by optimizing thermal and fluid properties as well as mechanical properties. By using large-scale numerical simulations such as the molecular dynamics method, we investigate heat and mass transfer phenomena in the thermal and fluid engineering from the microscopic viewpoint. The underlying microscopic mechanisms governing macroscale thermofluid properties are examined as well. Integrating numerical analysis methods which can cover multiscale physics, we aim to investigate thermal and fluid phenomena having multiscale aspects. Based on this knowledge, industrial applications such as semiconductor processes and development of polymeric materials are explored.