Thermofluids
The faculty in the Thermofluids Group includes professors who research everything from pulp pumps to clean energy. The faculty group consists Nima Atabaki, Kendal Bushe, Martin Davy, Robert Evans, Ian Frigaard, Sheldon Green, Dana Grecov, Murray Hodgson, Walter Mérida, Jon Mikkelsen, Carl Ollivier-Gooch, James Olson, Steven Rogak, Martha Salcudean, and Boris Stoeber. A few of the projects currently underway are outlined below.
Dr. Nima Atabaki — Heat and Mass Transfer
Current Projects: Loop heat pipes, two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer, effective thermal conductivity of fluid saturated sintered powder metal plates, and HVAC systems.
Homepage for Nima Atabaki
Dr. Kendal Bushe — Turbulent Combustion
Current Projects: Numerical simulation of turbulent combustion in internal combustion engines and gas turbines, model development for turbulence/chemistry interactions, chemical kinetic mechanism development, and renewable fuels for heavy-duty transportation and stationary power applications.
Homepage for Kendal Bushe
Dr. Martin H. Davy — Applied Thermodynamics
Current Projects: Sustainable energy conversion, increased IC engine efficiency through improved combustion chamber design, and partially stratified-charge combustion in IC engines.
Homepage for Martin H. Davy
Dr. Robert L. Evans — Engines
Current Projects: Development of energy conversion systems, research in relationships among combustion chamber design, turbulence generation, and engine performance, turbulence reducing combustion chamber for spark-ignited engines, and partially stratified-charge engine combustion concept.
Homepage for Robert L. Evans
Dr. Ian Frigaard — Mathematical Modeling
Current Projects: Ongoing research in shear instabilities, Rayleigh-Bénard flows, bubble propagation, particle
sedimentation, visco-plastic lubrication, and Taylor-Couette instabilities, recent subjects in industrial mathematical modeling have included InSb crystal growth, injection molding, and waxy crude oil pipeline restarts.
Homepage for Ian Frigaard
Dr. Dana Grecov—Fluid Mechanics
Current Projects: Computational and experimental methods to analyze complex fluid flow in journal bearings, design of new lubricants and biolubricants, rheostructural and hydrodynamic study of synovial fluid, numerical simulation of industrial flows, Non-Newtonian fluid flows occurring in processing and primary industries.
Homepage for Dana Grecov
Dr. Sheldon I. Green — Fluid Mechanics
Current Projects:
Developing a model of the fibre deposition and dewatering process in
paper making, spraying of non-Newtonian fluids, minimizing electrical
power consumption in paper mills by improving pulp pump efficiency, and
measuring and reducing snow friction of skis (in conjunction with the
Canadian Olympic Committee).
Homepage for Sheldon I. Green
Dr. Murray Hodgson — Acoustics
Current Projects: Prediction of sound fields in workrooms, measurement of the acoustical characteristics of materials/surfaces, inverse methods for room-parameter and noise-source determination, acoustics and noise control in 'green' buildings and of 'green' roofs, active noise control, acoustics of learning spaces, aircraft run-up noise prediction and control, auralization (acoustical virtual reality).
Homepage for Murray Hodgson
Dr. Walter Mérida — Clean Energy Systems
Current Projects: Energy systems (climate disruption), fuel cell technology (durability and reliability), and hydrogen infrastructures (refueling stations for fuel cell vehicles).
Homepage for Walter Mérida
Mr. Jon Mikkelsen — Naval Architecture
Current Projects: Developing a vertical axis tidal turbine for power generation, and collaborating with First Nations to develop live capture fishing technologies.
Homepage for Jon Mikkelsen
Dr. Carl F. Ollivier-Gooch — Aerodynamics
Current Projects: Developing high-order accurate methods for compressible, turbulent flows, with applications in aerodynamics, aerodynamic optimization, and unstructured mesh generation from CAD data.
Homepage for Carl F. Ollivier-Gooch
Dr. James Olson — Pulp and Paper
Current Projects: Reducing electrical energy consumption in pulping, developing a mathematical model of fibre
orientation and concentration in turbulent flow, and design of a high performance, low energy pulp screen rotor.
Homepage for James Olson
Dr. Steven Rogak — Particle Systems and Energy Conservation
Current Projects: Development of simple, low-emissions fuel injectors for heavy-duty engines, determining the
optimal balance between thermal comfort and energy consumption in buildings.
Homepage for Steven Rogak
Dr. Martha Salcudean — Fluid Modelling
Current Projects: Developing a mathematical model for multi-phase flows, and applying models to fluidized beds and jet/bed interaction in fluidized beds.
Homepage for Martha Salcudean
Dr. Boris Stoeber — MEMS and Microfluids
Current Projects: Flow control in microfluidic devices, complex microflows, microflow characterization methods, micro-optical devices, biomedical microdevices, and sensor technology.
Homepage of Boris Stoeber
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12/3/2009 12:12:44 PM