RESEARCH

- Methods, processes, components, technologies and systems for the collection, recovery, utilization, conversion and/or storage of energy for heating, cooling and power, novel 'total energy' integration schemes in high-efficiency systems with emphasis on renewable and waste heat, and solar energy.

- Hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors and solar combined cooling, heating and power (S-CCHP) trigeneration systems in distributed applications.

- Waste-heat recovery and conversion to heating, cooling and/or power with advanced cycles.

- Nuclear energy thermohydraulics and next-generation thermodynamic power systems.

- Thermodynamics and fluid flow/heat transfer effects in conversion devices and machines, heat exchangers and other high-performance components.

- Transport processes, heat and fluid flows in energy technologies, urban environments, physiological systems, etc., including turbulent, inhomogeneous, multiphase and reacting flows.

- Multiphase and interfacial flows, including horizontal, vertical or inclined liquid-liquid or gas-liquid flows.

- Novel fluid mixing and bioreactor design and characterization.

- Autoignition, combustion and post-ignition flame propagation phenomena.

- Gasification of heavy oil, and coal and syngas production.

- Development and application of advanced diagnostics: high-resolution intrusive and non-intrusive (optical/laser-based) techniques for the measurement for velocity, turbulence, species, concentration, phase distribution, temperature, heat flux and reaction with particle image velocimetry (PIV), particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), infrared (IR) thermography, and related techniques.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2020
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E1 Apr 2017 - 31 Mar 2022
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account 2017-2020 (2017-2022)
  • GRANT
    Complex interfacial flows with heat transfer: Analysis, direct numerical simulations and experiments
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)1 Jul 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC): Complex interfacial flows with heat transfer: Analysis, direct numerical simulations and experiments (2013-2016)
  • PROGRAMME GRANT
    Multiscale Analysis of Complex Interfacial Phenomena (MACIPh): Coarse graining, Molecular modelling, stochasticity, and experimentation
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
    Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC): Multiscale Analysis of Complex Interfacial Phenomena (MACIPh): Coarse graining, Molecular modelling, stochasticity, and experimentation (2014-2020)