STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTEREST

I am interested on studying Thermal Engineering, specially Fluid and Heat Transfer.

Currently I am a holder of Master degree in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Thermal
Engineering.
The Fluids & Heat Transfer conducts research on experimental, numerical and theoretical
modelling and analysis of fluid dynamics, heat transfer and thermodynamics. The research
activity would cover a 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.
This PhD research is a cross-disciplinary study based on the well-known parallel between
convective heat and mass transfer, examining the similarities between optimal design of heat
exchange structures (e.g., heat sinks and heat exchangers in engineering applications) and the
evolutionary development and growth patterns of biological organisms in response to
convective mass transfer from nutrient streams (e.g., deep water coral growth). The aim is to set
up a theoretical and numerical framework for shape optmization of convective heat and mass
transfer structures, based on methods such as minimizaton of entropy generation. The research
will be representative for both fields heat transfer in thermal engineering and mass transfer in
marine biogeochemistry. The goal is twofold: To derive an optimal design methodology for heat
sinks in given fow field conditons inspired by biological growth dynamics, and to further the
understanding of local mass transfer characteristcs and their impact on the growth of
representative biological systems such as deep water coral reefs. The study comprises both
numerical analysis using computatonal fuid dynamics and numerical optmization, and
experimental testing and validation on laboratory scale heat transfer models and coral polyps in
nutrient flow. These experiments are conducted in the laboratories of the Schools of
Engineering and Natural Sciences using state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentaton. By
studying the mass transfer dynamics and evolutionary optmizaton in nature, this
crossdisciplinary research may provide new ways to improve energy efficiency and minimize
material usage of cooling systems, e.g. for large-scale ICT infrastructure such as data centres
and telecommunication systems.