Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Group
 

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Guohui Gan

Associate Professor, Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Group, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

Guohui Gan is a member of the Buildings, Energy and Environment website Research Group.

Expertise Summary

Sustainable building technologies; Solar thermal and building-integrated photovoltaics; Passive heating, cooling and natural ventilation of buildings; HVAC and heat recovery systems; Ground coupled heat exchangers and ground source heat pumps; Modelling and measurement of air flow and pollutant dispersion in and around buildings and heat transfer through building structures; Assessment of indoor environmental quality; Development and application of CFD; Heat, moisture and fluid flow in porous media.

Teaching Summary

CFD for building engineering

MSc dissertation

MEng research dissertation

Research Summary

Development and integration of sustainable building technologies; Building-integrated photovoltaics; Photovoltaic thermal collector with thermal storage; Energy efficient heating and cooling; Ground… read more

Selected Publications

Current Research

Development and integration of sustainable building technologies; Building-integrated photovoltaics; Photovoltaic thermal collector with thermal storage; Energy efficient heating and cooling; Ground source heat pumps; Earth-air heating and ventilation; Natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation of buildings; CFD modelling of buoyancy-driven fluid flow, heat and moisture transfer and fluid flow in porous media including soil and building structures, and conjugate heat transfer in fluid-solid fields.

Past Research

Application of CFD to the Built Environment: Room air movement, thermal comfort and air quality; Air flow and pressure loss in ventilation systems; Natural ventilation and ventilation heat recovery; Heat pipes; Passive heating/cooling; Evaporative cooling; Ejector cooling; Transparent structures; Building integrated photovoltaics.

Future Research

I welcome inquiries from potential PhD candidates with an outstanding academic record and an interest in:

  • Sustainable building technologies
  • Renewable energy systems
  • HVAC
  • CFD
  • Evaluation of building performance
  • Building energy conservation, harvesting and storage
  • Ground source heat pumps
  • Building-integrated photovoltaics
  • Natural ventilation of buildings
  • Energy-efficient heating and cooling of buildings
  • Environment-responsive sustainable building design solutions
  • Air quality control in naturally ventilated buildings
  • Transparent green facades - Multiphase heat and fluid flow modelling
  • Dynamic transparent insulation - Conjugate heat and fluid flow modelling
  • Fluid flow and heat and moisture transfer in soil and building structures
  • Interactions between atmosphere, soil and ground heat exchangers for ground source heat pumps and/or earth-air tunnel ventilation systems
  • Comprehensive modelling of the indoor environmental quality and the urban heat island effect

Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Groups

Faculty of Engineering
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


telephone: +44 (0) 115 74 86257
email: BEE@nottingham.ac.uk