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I am a Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years research experience in the field of Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics. I graduated with first class honours from the Dept. of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College Dublin in 2006 before pursuing a PhD, during which I studied a form of natural convection termed thermocapillary or Marangoni convection. I used a combination of analytical, numerical, experimental and computational techniques to validate my research findings, which have been published in several peer-reviewed journals.
In 2010 I was appointed to the role of Research Fellow in TCD, and since then I have been working on a variety of fundamental and applied thermal engineering research projects, many of which involve collaborations with industry partners. Currently I am working with a multinational industry partner to investigate novel methods of cooling biomedical grade polymers during machining processes. Since 2011, my main research focus has been on the fields Energy and Sustainable International Development. My research team is involved in a project in Malawi which aims to bring off-grid electricity to those in the developing world by using the waste heat produced during cooking. Termed the muPower TEG-Stove, this research is in its 7th year and growing, with 100 prototype electricity-producing cooking stoves undergoing field trials.
In September 2016 I began my role as Ussher Assistant Professor in Energy & Sustainable International Development. I am currently working towards establishing new projects in this field in countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso and Zambia. In May 2017 and April 2018, I took part in a parabolic flight campaign in collaboration with the University of Pisa and the European Space Agency (ESA). Our research team investigated droplet evaporation in hyper and micro gravity conditions over the course of 186 parabolas. I continue to work in the areas of thermal management for a variety of applications and processes including electronics cooling, manufacturing process cooling and heating, and more recently my research group is investigating novel methods for thermal management of electric vehicles, including pulsed liquid flow and 2-phase heat transfer (boiling & condensation).
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Journal of Physics Conference Seriesno. 1 (2024)
Results in Materials (2024): 100535
Journal of Physics Conference Seriesno. 1 (2024)
Journal of Physics Conference Seriesno. 1 (2024)
2023 22nd IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm)pp.1-6, (2023)
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technologyno. 8 (2023): 1147-1154
2023 22nd IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm)pp.1-8, (2023)
Heat and mass transfer (2022)
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#Papers: 45
#Citation: 820
H-Index: 15
G-Index: 28
Sociability: 4
Diversity: 2
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