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Laura A. Schaefer

Deputy Director, Mascaro Sustainability Initiative and
Associate Professor and Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department
University of Pittsburgh

Contact Info * Research Areas * Classes * CV * Publications* Links

o Contact Information

o Research Areas - Energy Systems Lab

* Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Small-Scale PEMs and DMFCs
* Two-Phase Binary Zeotropic Flow in Microchannels
* Hybrid Fuel Cell-Turbine Power Generation
* Thermoacoustic Stirling Engines
* Alternative Refrigerants
* Hydrokinetic Power Generation
* Algorithms and Sensors for Optimal Building Operation

o Classes

* ENGR 2200: Introduction to Sustainable Engineering
* ME 3007: Energetics
* ME 2074: Graduate Fluid Mechanics I
* ME 1071: Fluid Mechanics I
* ME 1065: Thermal Systems Analysis and Design
* ME 1051: Advanced Thermodynamics
* CEE 2210: Powering the Campus of the Future

o C.V.

o Recent Publications

* Zink, F., Lu, Y., and Schaefer, L., 2007, “A Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System For Buildings,” Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 809-818.

* Lu, Y., and Schaefer, L., 2006, “Numerical Study of a Flat-Tube High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cell: Part II. Cell Performance and Stack Optimization,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 68-75.

* Yuan, P., and Schaefer, L., 2006, “Equations of State in a Lattice Boltzmann Model,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 18, no. 4, article 042101.

* Yuan, P., and Schaefer, L., 2006, “A thermal lattice Boltzmann two-phase flow model and its application to heat transfer problems - Part 2. Integration and validation,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 151-156.

* Yuan, P., and Schaefer, L., 2006, “A thermal lattice Boltzmann two-phase flow model and its application to heat transfer problems - Part 1. Theoretical foundation,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 142-150.

* Li, P.-W., Schaefer, L., and Chyu, M. K., 2005, “Multiple Transport Processes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Chapter 1 in Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cells, B. Sunden and M. Fahgri, eds., Southampton: Wit Press.

* Lu, Y., Schaefer, L., and Li, P.-W., 2005, “Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow of a Flat-Tube Type High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 65-69.

* Lu, Y., Schaefer, L., and Li, P.-W., 2005, “Numerical Study of a Flat-Tube High Power Density Solid Oxide Fuel Cell: Part I. Heat/Mass Transfer and Fluid Flow,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 331-339.

* Li, P.-W., Schaefer, L., and Chyu, M. K., 2004, “A Numerical Model Coupling the Heat and Gas Species’ Multiple Transport Processes in a Tubular SOFC,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 219-229.

* Lu, Y., and Schaefer, L., 2004, “A SOFC System Fed with Hydrogen Sulfide and Natural Gas,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 135, pp. 184-191.

* Schaefer, L. A., and Schaefer, A. J., 2004, “Locating Hybrid Fuel Cell-Turbine Power Generation Under Uncertainty,” Annals of Operations Research, vol. 132, pp. 301-322.

* Li, P.-W., Schaefer, L., Wang, Q.-M., Zhang, T., and Chyu, M. K., 2003, “Multi-gas Transportation and Electrochemical Performance of a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell with Complex Flow Channels,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 90-100.

* Li, P.-W., Zhang, T., Wang, Q.-M., Schaefer, L., and Chyu, M. K., 2003, “The Performance of PEM Fuel Cells Fed with Oxygen through the Free-convection Mode,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 114, pp. 63-69.

* Cain, J. T., Clark, W. C., Schaefer, L. A., Mandecki, W., Ulinski, D., and Mickle, M. H., 2001, “Energy Harvesting for DNA Gene Sifting and Sorting,” International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, Special Issue on Energy Harvesting, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 140-149.

o Links