Franklin Miller Assistant Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors

Contact Information

Room 1341 Engineering Research Center 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/263-2479 Fax: 608/262-8464 E-mail: fkmiller@wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Mechanical Engineering
• Engineering Physics

Courses

• ME 361: Thermodynamics

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005, Thesis: The Development of a Superfluid Joule-Thomson Refrigerator for Cooling below 1 Kelvin
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University

Fields of Interest

• Cryogenics
• Thermodynamics of Superfluid 3He-4He mixtures
• Sub-Kelvin cooling for space science
• Energy Systems

Publications

• Franklin K. Miller and J.G. Brisson, Development of a low-dissipation valve for use in a cold-cycle dilution refrigerator, Cryogenics 39 (10) (1999) pp. 859-863.
• F.K. Miller and J.G. Brisson, A simple method for the analysis of sub-Kelvin refrigerators that use a dilute superfluid 3He-4He mixture as a working fluid, Cryogenics 41 (5-6) (2001) pp. 311-318.
• F.K. Miller and J.G. Brisson, The Design and Performance of a Superfluid 3He- 4He Compressor, Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference 47A (2001) pp.312-322.
• F.K. Miller and J.G. Brisson, The Preliminary Performance of a Superfluid 3He-4He Compressor,Cryocoolers 12, Proceedings of the 12th International Cryocooler Conference (2003)
• F.K. Miller and J.G. Brisson, The Experimental Evaluation of a Proof of Principle Superfluid Joule-Thomson Refrigerator, Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference 51A (2005)
• F.K. Miller and J. G. Brisson, Proof-of-Principle Measurements of the Superfluid Joule-Thomson Refrigerator Concept, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 141(3-4) (2005) pp.179-190.
• F.K. Miller and J. G. Brisson, Development of a Low-Temperature 3He Compressor for Superfluid 3He-4He Mixtures, Cryogenics, 147(2) (2007) pp.67-80
• F.K. Miller and J. G. Brisson, Measurements of the Superfluid Joule-Thomson Refrigerator Operating with High 3He Concentration Mixture, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 147(5-6) (2007) pp.559-578
• E.R Canavan and F.K. Miller, Optimized Heat Interception for Cryogen Tank Support Structure, Accepted for publication in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (2007)

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• 2007 Paper of the year for the journal Cryogenics