The research activities of each faculty member in the
Department are briefly introduced. These include active
research projects and external fuding. Most of the faculty
members of the Department also list their research activities
on their personal homepages, which can be accessed from the faculty member list.
| Professor L. Jiji |
HEAT TRANSFER
The following are currently active research projects in heat transfer:
(1) Phase Transformation with Energy Generation. This area finds applications in casting of nuclear waste material, cryosurgery, freezing of tissue, solar collectors and energy storage systems.
2) Heat Transfer in Microchannels. This research is driven by miniaturization of microelectronic devices and extensive applications in medical and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) such as micro heat exchangers, mixers, pumps, turbines, sensors and actuators. Attention is focused on developing theoretical solutions to convection heat transfer in microchannels.
3) The Naked Mole Rat. Studies have uncovered an abdominal organ (caecum) in the naked mole rat which is maintained at lower than body temperature. This unusual phenomena motivated research directed at quantifying the heat sink strength of the caecum.
(4) Thermal Stress in Poultry. A major problem in the poultry industry is the impact of heat stress on the birds. This is a particularly serious problem in underdeveloped countries with hot climates. This research seeks to develop simple low cost solutions to the problem of high poultry mortality rate due to heat stress.
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