Welcome to the ExSiTE Lab (Experiments and Simulations in Thermal Engineering) at UVA, and research homepage for Professor Patrick E. Hopkins. Our group’s interests are in energy transport and coupled photonic interactions with condensed matter, soft materials, liquids, vapors, plasmas and their interfaces. We use various optical thermometry-based experiments to measure the thermal conductivity, thermal boundary conductance, thermal accommodation, strain propagation and sound speed, optical properties, and electron, phonon, vibrational and polaritonic scattering mechanisms in a wide array of bulk materials and nanosystems.
Group Member Publication: Thermal conductivity, emissivity and solidus and liquidus temperatures of additively manufactured stainless steel
Congrats Jessica Reyes!!
Reyes, J., et al., “Thermal conductivity, emissivity, and solidus and liquidus temperatures of additively manufactured 316L stainless steel (316L SS) using steady-state laser heating-based thermography techniques,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 269, 129055 (2026).
ExSiTE Group at Carter’s Mountain in Charlottesville, VA, Fall 2025
Take a virtual tour of the ExSiTE Lab
Contact Information
Patrick E. Hopkins
122 Engineer’s Way
Mechanical Engineering Building
PO Box 400746
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4746
phone: 434-924-6297
fax: 434-982-2037
email: phopkins@virginia.edu
Video and pictures courtesy of Tom Daly Photography
patrickehopkins.com 