School of Engineering

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, thermodynamic modeling, two phase heat transfer, human thermal comfort modeling, and bio heat transfer. He is the recipient of the 2001 Ralph Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers and was named a DuPont Young Professor Award winner for the period 2001-2004. He is active in ASME, IIR, ASEE, and ASHRAE, where he is a member of two technical committees.

Representative Publications
Ratts, E.B. and Brown, J.S. 2000. A generalized analysis for cascading single fluid vapor compression refrigeration cycles using an entropy generation minimization method. Int. J. of Refrigeration 23: 353-365.

Brown, J.S., Yana-Motta, S., and Domanski, P.A. 2002. Comparative analysis of an automotive air conditioning system operating with CO₂ and R134a. Int. J. of Refrigeration 25(1):19-32.

Didion, D.A. and Brown, J.S. 2002. Challenges in developing environmentally safe heat pumping systems. J. of Mechanical Engineering 47(8): 356-365.

Brown, J.S., Kim, Y., and Domanski, P.A. 2002. Evaluation of carbon dioxide as R22 substitute for residential air conditioning. ASHRAE Transactions 108(2).

Brown, J.S. 2003. Transcritical carbon dioxide refrigeration cycle model with visual interface. Int. J. of Modeling and Simulation. 23(3):143-152.