Research Group: Fluids and Heat Transfer

Overview

The Fluids and Heat Transfer Group from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Trinity College Dublin 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. The current research focuses on the heat transfer and fluid dynamics of large scale to micro scale impinging liquid, air, mist, swirl & synthetic jets, two-phase flow, electrohydrodynamics, thermocapillary convection, nucleate boiling heat transfer and heat pipe technology.

Leader(s)

Research Projects

Current Research Staff and Students

Name Position Tel. Email

Prof. Darina Murray

Associate Professor

1129

dmurray@tcd.ie

Dr. Tony Robinson

Lecturer

3919

arobins@tcd.ie

 

Mr. Gerry Byrne

Technician

3523

gerbyrne@tcd.ie

 

Dr. Hussam Jouhara

Senior Research Fellow

8503

hussam.jouhara@tcd.ie

Dr. Tim Persoons

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

8503

tim.persoons@tcd.ie

Dr. Conor Buckley

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

3678

conor.buckley@tcd.ie

Dr. Cristina Radulescu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

3767

cradule@tcd.ie
 

Mr. Thomas Lupton

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

tlupton@tcd.ie

Mr. Seamus O'Shaughnessy

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

oshaughs@tcd.ie

Mr. Brian Whelan

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

whelanbp@tcd.ie

Mr. Roger Kempers

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

kempers@alcatel-lucent.com

Mr. Brian Donnelly

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

donnelbg@tcd.ie

Mr. Alan McGuinn

Postgraduate Research Student

1061

mcguinta@tcd.ie

Mr. Sergio Di Bari

Postgraduate Research Student

1998

dibaris@tcd.ie

Mr. Kevin Kerrigan

Postgraduate Research Student

1663

kkerriga@tcd.ie

Ms. Rachel O'Connor

Postgraduate Research Student

1663

roconno5@tcd.ie

Mr. Gerard Mc Granaghan

Postgraduate Research Student

3920

mcgranag@tcd.ie

Mr. Oisin Lyons

Postgraduate Research Student

3920

lyonso@tcd.ie

Mr. Rayhann Farrelly

Postgraduate Research Student

3920

farrela@tcd.ie

Mr. CheeKeat Lee

Postgraduate Research Student

3920

leeck@tcd.ie

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Facilities

Major Equipment
  • Two component Laser Doppler Anemometry system
  • 2 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) systems
  • Several hotwire anemometry systems
  • 32 channel 16 bit data acquisition system
  • 8 channel 24 bit data acquisition system
  • An assortment of PC based small scale data acquisition systems
  • 3 IR thermal imaging cameras
  • Liquid crystal thermography system
  • 3 colour high speed cameras
  • Several hot film anemometry systems for unsteady heat transfer
  • Digital gas mass flow meters
  • Water cooled dynamic pressure transducers
  • Five species exhaust gas analyser
  • RTD based temperature calibrator
  • IR pyrometers and black-body calibrator
Test facilities
  • 3 instrumented internal combustion engine test cell
  • Unsteady combustion rig
  • Monitored high temperature (Tmax=500­oC) air flow loop.
  • 2 heat pipe test rigs and a heat pipe fabrication facility.
  • Bench top hydronic central heating test bed
  • 2 two- phase flow and heat transfer rigs.
  • 4 jet impingement heat transfer rigs (liquid /air/mist)
  • Tube bundle heat transfer rig
  • Shakers for dynamic testing of model scale and full scale structures and components.
  • 3D rapid prototype systems
  • Micro-machining test bed
Computing & Software
  • CFX (Computational Fluid Dynamcis)
  • FLUENT (Computational Fluid Dynamcis)
  • MATLAB (Data analysis and simulation)
  • FEMLAB (Coupled multiphysics simulation)
  • National Instruments' LabView (Data acquisition and experiment control)
  • Access to trinity College High Performance Computers (346 node AMD Opteron MPP cluster & 30 node Intel Xeon MPP cluster)
  • Access to SGI Altix 350 (32 Itanium CPUs, 128 GB RAM)
  • Design lab with 20 Dell Precision 390 Workstations
  • General computing lab with 30 Dell GX620 PC's

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