Daniel Carne, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Department
United States Naval Academy
590 Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5042
(410) 293-6453
carne@usna.edu
EDUCATION
Purdue University, 2025
Purdue University, 2025
- Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Thermal radiation
- Machine learning and optimization methods
- Radiative cooling
- Monte Carlo methods
- Computational fluid dynamics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy (July 2025- Present)
- Barber, E., Feng, D., Fang, Z., Carne, D., Gonzalez, O.R., Lee, W.J., Vansal, N., Raykova, K., Ruan, X., 2025, “Efficient, Hydrophobic, and Weather-Resistant Radiative Cooling Paints with Silicone-Based Binders”, ACS Applied Optical Materials 3(5), 1137-1144
- Liu, X., Lee, W.J., Carne, D., Tian, Y., Felicelli, A., Lei, Y., Romo, J.A., You, L., Xiong, Z., Gonzalez, O.R., Aljwirah, A., Gan, Q., Mei, J., Ruan, X., 2025, “High‐Performance Low‐Emissivity Paints Enabled by N‐Doped Poly (benzodifurandione)(n‐PBDF) for Energy‐Efficient Buildings”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2419685
- Guo, Z., Katsamba, I., Carne, D., Feng, D., Moss, K., Barber, E., Fang, Z., Felicelli, A., Ruan, X., 2025, “Electronic and phononic characteristics of high-performance radiative cooling pigments h-BN: A comparative study to BaSO4”, Materials Today Physics 54, 101721
- Carne, D., Peoples, J., Guo, Z., Feng, D., Han, Z., Liu, X., Ruan, X., 2025, “FOS: A fully integrated open-source program for Fast Optical Spectrum calculations of nanoparticle media”, Computer Physics Communications 307, 109393
- Carne, D., Barber, E., Jain, A., Lee, W.J., Ruan, X., 2024, “UV-Resistant Colored Radiative Cooling Paints for Robust Outdoor Performance”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 88674, V009T11A028
- Mohammad, N., Zhang, Y., Xu, W., Aranke, S.S., Carne, D., Deng, P., Du, F., Ruan, X., Li, T., 2024, “Highly Tunable Cellulosic Hydrogels with Dynamic Solar Modulation for Energy‐Efficient Windows”, Small 20(27), 2303706
- Carne, D., Peoples, J., Arentz, F., Ruan, X., 2024, “True benefits of multiple nanoparticle sizes in radiative cooling paints identified with machine learning”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 222, 125209
- Carne, D., Peoples, J., Feng, D., Ruan, X., 2023, “Accelerated prediction of photon transport in nanoparticle media using machine learning trained with monte carlo simulations”, ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 145(5), 052502
- American Society of Mechanical Engineering
