Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group

PhD Students

Currently within FLUTE there are 50 students. All our students are skilled in multiple research areas such as: Low-carbon vehicles, Two-phase flow tomography, Chemical process engineering, Thin film flow, MATLAB computation, Gas adsorption, Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics and much more.

Junze Chu

Junze Chu

PhD title: Experimental and numerical investigation on temperature field in liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE)

Supervisors: Dr Jie Zhu and Dr Guohui Gan

Key skills: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Phase change; Liquid to air membrane energy exchanger (LAMEE)

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Paul Connolly

Paul Connolly

PhD title: Investigation of Asymmetric Drag in Swimming and its Implication to Swimsuit Design

Supervisors: Prof Kwing-So Choi and Dr Donald Giddings

Key skills: Wind tunnel, Particle Image Velocimetry, Force analyses, MatLab - flow visualisation

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Evan Goldman

Evan Goldman

PhD title: Developing ejector technology for the intensification of carbon capture processes

Supervisors: Dr Buddhik Hewakandamby 

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Yarong.Liang

Yarong Liang 

PhD title: Enhancement of vapour absorption using nanofluid influenced by the magnetic field. 

Supervisors: Dr Shenyi Wu and Dr Guohui Gan

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 Keziah Magit

Keziah Magit

PhD title: Investigating the Effect of Viscosity on Gas- Liquid Flows Around Vertical and Horizontal Bends 

Supervisors: Dr Buddhik Hewakandamby and Dr David Hann

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Ismail El Mellas

Ismail El Mellas

PhD title: Multiscale modelling of boiling flows in complex micro-geometries for next-generation thermal management of high-power-density micro-devices

Supervisors: Dr Mirco MagniniDr David Hann and Dr Matteo Icardi

Key Skills: Heat and mass transfer, Phase Change, CFD, OpenFOAM 

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Christos Antoniou

PhD title: The Influence of Fuel Properties and Injection Strategies on Advanced Turbulent Jet Ignition 

Supervisors: Prof Alasdair Cairns, Dr Antonino La RoccaProf Christopher Gerada and Dr Gaurang Vakil 

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Zak Waite

PhD title: Sustainable Hydrogen CDT: To a 100% Hydrogen Domestic Boiler

Supervisors: Dr Donald Giddings, Prof David Grant, Dr Robin Irons

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Fluids and Thermal Engineering Research Group

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

email:flute@nottingham.ac.uk