Jivtesh Garg

Associate Professor

Email: garg@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5232
Office: Felgar Hall 217
Office Hours: T/R 2:00-3:00pm

Education
Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering (2011)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S, Mechanical Engineering (2002)
University of Minnesota
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering (1999)
Indian Institute of Technology- Madras

Research Focus

First-principles prediction of transport properties of materials
Thermoelectrics
Coupled conduction and radiation heat transfer across nanoscale gaps
Thermal properties and rheology of nanofluids

Experience and Awards

GE Fulcrum of Progress Award

Professional Activities and Organizations

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Materials Research Society

Recent Publications

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J. Garg, N. Bonini and N. Marzari, “First-principles determination of phonon lifetimes mean-freepaths, and thermal conductivities in crystalline materials: pure silicon and germanium book chapter for “Length scale dependent phonon interactions”, pp 115-136 (2014)
K.Esfarjani, J. Garg, and G. Chen, “Modeling heat conduction from first-principles”, In preparation for Annual Review of Heat Transfer.
F. Hofmann, J. Garg, A. A. Maznev, A. Jandl, M. T. Bulsara, E. A. Fitzgerald, G. Chen and K. A. Nelson, “Intrinsic to extrinsic phonon lifetime transition in a GaAs/AlAs superlattice”, Journals of Physics – Condensed Matter 25, 295401 (2013)
M. N. Luckyanova, J. A. Johnson, A. Maznev, J. Garg, A. Jandl, M. T. Bulsara, E. A. Fitzgerald, K. A. Nelson and G. Chen “Anisotropy of the thermal conductivity of GaAs/AlAs superlattice”, Nano Letters 13, 3973 (2013).
J. Garg and G. Chen, “Minimum thermal conductivity in superlattices: A first-principles formalism”, Phys. Rev. B. 87, 140302 (R) (2013).
T. Luo, J. Garg, J. Shiomi, K. Esfarjani and G. Chen, “Gallium arsenide thermal conductivity and optical phonon relaxation times from first-principles calculations”, Europhysics Letters 101, 16001 (2013).
M. N. Luckyanova†, J. Garg†, K. Esfarjani, A. Jandl, M. T. Bulsara, A. J. Schmidt, A. J. Minnich, S. Chen, M. S. Dresselhaus, Z. Ren, E. A. Fitzgerald, and G. Chen, “Coherent Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices”, Science 338, 936 (2012)( †Equal contribution).
N. Bonini, J. Garg, N. Marzari, “Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes and Thermal Transport in Free Standing and Strained Graphene”, Nano Letters 12, 2673 (2012).
Z. Tian, J. Garg, K. Esfarjani, T. Shiga, J. Shiomi and G. Chen, “Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe1-x Sex from first- principles calculations”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 184303 (2012).
J. Garg, N. Bonini, and N. Marzari, “High Thermal Conductivity in short-period superlattices”, Nano Letters 11, 5135 (2011).
J. Garg, N. Bonini, B. Kozinsky, and N. Marzari, “Role of disorder and anharmonicity in the thermal conductivity of Silicon-Germanium alloys: A first-principles study”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 45901 (2011).
J. Garg, B. Poudel, M. Chiesa, JB Gordon, JJ Ma, JB Wang, ZF Ren, YT Kang, H Ohtani, J Nanda, GH Mckinley, G Chen, “Enhanced thermal conductivity and viscosity of copper nanoparticles in ethylene glycol nanofluid”, Journal of Appl. Phys. 103, 074301 (2008).
M. Chiesa, J. Garg. Y. T. Kang, G. Chen, “Thermal conductivity and viscosity of water-in-oil nanoemulsions”, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 326 (1), 67 (2008)
J. Garg, M. Arik, S. Weaver, T. Wetzel, S. Saddoughi, “Meso Scale pulsating jets for electronics cooling”, Journal of Electronics Packaging 127, 503 (2005).
M. Arik, J. Garg, A. Bar-Cohen, “Thermal Modeling and Performance of High Heat Flux SOP Packages”, IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, 27, 398 (2004).
J. Garg, M. Arik, E. Tkaczyk, “Methodology for computation and measurement of thermal conductivity for thin film composite substrates”, ITHERM Conference, 1, 102 (2004).
J. Garg, M. Arik, A. Bar-Cohen, R. Wolf, J. Hartley, A. Glezer, “Synthetic jet enhancement of natural convection and pool boiling in a dielectric liquid”, International heat transfer conference, France, 2002.