The Catholic University of America

J. Steven Brown, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
202-319-4738 phone
202-319-5173 fax
brownjs@cua.edu

Education
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991

Biography

Steve Brown's research interests include refrigeration and air conditioning, alternative refrigeration cycles, alternative refrigerants, Organic Rankine Cycles and their working fluids, thermodynamic modeling, and two phase heat transfer. He is the recipient of the 2001 Ralph Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, was named a DuPont Young Professor Award winner for the period 2001-2004, and received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the ASHRAE Journal for his paper, “HFO’s: New, low global warming potential refrigerants.” He is active in ASME, IIR, ASHRAE, and ABET where he is an ME Program Evaluator

Representative Publications

Brown, J.S., Zilio, C. and Cavallini, A., “Critical Review of the Latest Thermodynamic and Transport Property Data and Models, and Equations of State for R-1234yf”, Proceedings of the 13th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, July 2010.

Cavallini, A., Zilio, C. and Brown, J.S., “Sustainability with prospective refrigerants”, Proceedings of the IIR Sustainable Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010.

Cavallini, A., Brown, J.S., Del Col, D. and Zilio, C., 2010. In-tube condensation performance of refrigerants considering penalization terms (exergy losses) for heat transfer and pressure drop. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53(13-14), 2885-2896.
 
Brown, J.S., Zilio, C. and Cavallini, A., 2010. Thermodynamic properties of eight fluorinated olefins. International Journal of Refrigeration 33(2), 235-241.
 
Brown, J.S., Zilio, C. and Cavallini, A., 2009. The fluorinated olefin R-1234ze(Z) as a high-temperature heat pumping refrigerant. International Journal of Refrigeration 32(6), 1412-1422.
 
Brown, J.S., 2009. HFO’s: New, low global warming potential refrigerants. ASHRAE Journal 51( 8): 22-29.

Brown, J.S., Zilio, C., and Cavallini, A., "Estimations of the thermodynamic and transport properties of R-1234yf using a cubic equation of state and group contribution methods", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Processes of Refrigerants, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009.

Zilio, C., Brown, J.S., and Cavallini, A., "Simulation of R-1234yf performance in a typical automotive system", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Processes of Refrigerants, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009.

Brown, J.S., Domanski, P.A., and Lemmon, E.W., "CYCLE_D Version 4.0: Theoretical vapor compression cycle design program", Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Processes of Refrigerants, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009.

Brown, J. S., 2008. Methodology for estimating thermodynamic parameters and performance of alternative refrigerants. ASHRAE Transactions 114(1): 230-238.