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.