A Portable, Tippable Airborne Particle Counter

Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. Engineering/Physics, 2012-13

Liaison(s): Dr. Steve Spielman ’86, Dr. Susanne Hering
Advisor(s): Nancy Lape, Tom Donnelly
Students(s): Brad Perfect (TL-S), Bennett Naden (TL-F), Jake Leonardis, Tracey Luke, Brianna Thielen

Aerosol Dynamics has patented a novel process called diffusive mixing that could be used to grow water droplets around airborne nanoscale particles and improve the efficiency of aerosol counters. The Clinic team’s project is to develop computational models to simulate diffusive mixing, and then design and build a prototype aerosol counter which implements the diffusive mixing technique.