Fluids & Heat Transfer Research Group

The Fluids & Heat Transfer Group has been conducting research for many years on modelling and analysis of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics. The research activities of the group cover a wide range of interdependent disciplines ranging from energy system technologies, electronics thermal management, manufacturing processes to fundamental research in thermal energy transport and active flow control. The current research focuses on the heat transfer and fluid dynamics of large scale to micro scale impinging liquid, air, mist, swirl, pulsating and synthetic jets, two-phase flow, electrohydrodynamics, thermocapillary convection, nucleate boiling heat transfer and heat pipe technology.

Group Leaders

Selected Research Projects

Past Research Projects

Research Staff and Students

Name Position Tel. Email
Prof. Darina Murray Professor, Head of Discipline +353 1 896 1129 dmurray@tcd.ie
Dr. Tony Robinson Assistant Professor +353 1 896 3919 arobins@tcd.ie
Dr. Tim Persoons Assistant Professor +353 1 896 1936 tim.persoons@tcd.ie
Dr. Seamus O'Shaughnessy Adjunct Professor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow +353 1 896 1778 oshaugse@tcd.ie
Dr. Roger Kempers Adjunct Professor kemperr@tcd.ie
Mr. Gerry Byrne Experimental Officer +353 1 896 3523 gerbyrne@tcd.ie
Dr. Rayhaan Farrelly Postdoctoral Research Fellow +353 1 896 1778 farrelra@tcd.ie
Dr. Karl James Brown Postdoctoral Research Fellow +353 1 896 2396 kbrown@tcd.ie
Dr. Samuel Siedel Postdoctoral Research Fellow +353 1 896 2396 samuel.siedel@tcd.ie
Ms. Aimee Byrne Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3920 byrnea36@tcd.ie
Mr. David Donoghue Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3038 donoghdb@tcd.ie
Mr. Maurice Deasy Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3038 deasym1@tcd.ie
Mr. Cian Quinn Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3038 ciquinn@tcd.ie
Ms. Kate Smith Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3038 smithk4@tcd.ie
Mr. Eoin Fanning Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 3038 efanning@tcd.ie
Mr. Diarmuid Jackson Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 2978 jacksod@tcd.ie
Mr. Rudi O' Reilly Meehan Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 2978 ruoreill@tcd.ie
Mr. Stephen Yates Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 2978 yatess@tcd.ie
Mr. Michael Gibbons Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 2978 migibbon@tcd.ie
Mr. Sajad Alimohammadi Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 1998 alimohas@tcd.ie
Mr. Quentin Pelletier Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 1998 pelletiq@tcd.ie
Mr. Richard Blythman Postgraduate Research Student +353 1 896 2978 blythmar@tcd.ie
Mr. Munir Eraghubi Postgraduate Research Student eraghubm@tcd.ie

Alumni

Name Position Email
Dr. Pierre Valiorgue Assistant Professor (Maître de conférences), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 pierre.valiorgue@gmail.com
Dr. Brian Donnelly Project Engineer, Thermal Management Research Group, Bell Labs Research Ireland brian.donnelly@alcatel-lucent.com
Dr. Thomas Lupton Research Associate, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University t.l.lupton@lboro.ac.uk
Dr. Tadhg O'Donovan Lecturer, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh t.s.o'donovan@hw.ac.uk

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Equipment and Facilities

Major Equipment

  • 1 high-speed stereoscopic (3-component) particle image velocimetry (PIV) system, based on a Quantronix DarwinDuo high repetition rate double-pulsed Nd:YLF laser and 2 Photron Fastcam SA1 CMOS high-speed cameras
  • 1 high-speed PIV system, based on an Oxford Lasers high repetition rate single cavity pulsed diode laser and NAC high-speed cameras
  • 1 low-speed PIV system, based on a New Wave Solo-II PIV double-pulsed Nd:YAG laser and PCO Sensicam CCD camera (shared with FAV research group)
  • 1 Two-component Dantec laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) system (shared with FAV research group)
  • Multichannel constant temperature and constant current hot-wire/film anemometry systems, for fast response velocity, turbulence, fluid temperature and surface heat flux measurements
  • Several multichannel and modular 16/24-bit data acquisition system
  • 1 high-speed FLIR infrared thermal imaging camera (SC6000HS) and rapid data storage system
  • 2 FLIR research grade infrared thermal imaging cameras (A40M)
  • Several portable FLIR infrared thermal imaging cameras
  • Liquid crystal thermography system
  • Several full-colour high speed video camera systems
  • Digital gas mass flow meters and controllers
  • Water cooled dynamic pressure transducers
  • Five species exhaust gas analyser
  • RTD based temperature calibrator
  • IR pyrometers and 2 black-body calibrators
  • Highly accurate mass balances

Test Facilities

  • Medium and small scale closed-loop water tunnel flow measurement facilities
  • Medium and small scale open-loop wind tunnel flow measurement facilities (shared with FAV research group)
  • 3 instrumented internal combustion engine dynamometer test stands
  • Unsteady combustion test facility
  • Monitored high temperature air flow loop (up to 500 °C)
  • Heat pipe fabrication and testing facilities
  • Bench top hydronic central heating test bed
  • 2 two-phase flow and heat transfer test facilities
  • 4 jet impingement heat transfer test facilities (liquid/air/mist)
  • Tube bundle heat transfer test facility
  • Shakers for dynamic testing of model scale and full scale structures and components
  • 3D rapid prototype systems
  • Micro-machining test bed

Computing & Software

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics: Ansys CFX, FLUENT, in-house code
  • Particle image velocimetry: Lavision Davis, in-house code
  • Computer-aided design and finite element analysis: PTC CREO, Ansys
  • Data analysis and simulation: Mathworks Matlab, Simulink
  • Data acquisition and control: National Instruments LabView, Arduino
  • Access to Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing (see details on www.tchpc.tcd.ie/resources/clusters)
  • Dedicated SGI Altix 350 server (32 Itanium CPUs, 128 GB RAM)
  • Design lab with 20+ Dell Precision workstations
  • General computing lab with 25+ Dell Optiplex computers

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