hi am Ravi i would like to get details on ppt on recent research topics in thermal engineering.Now i am living at new delhi and i last studied in kurukshetra university and now am doing Ph.D i need help as soon as possible

Thermal Engineering and Environmental Technology Division

This division mainly develops research concerning applied thermal-fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermal engineering and refrigeration techniques, environmental quality and comfort in conjunction with a rational use of energy and its economical-social impact. Topics involved in research activities are summarized in the following list:

Single Phase and Multiphase Thermal Fluid-dynamics. Research activities focus on modeling thermal-fluid dynamic processes (included phase-transitions and two-phase flows) occurring in energy systems by means of numerical methods and advanced experimental techniques.
Applied Thermal Engineering. Current research aims at supplying basic knowledge, measurement techniques and operating tools for studying thermodynamic and heat transfer processes related to energy production and distribution.
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration. Research concerns the control of the indoor environment and contaminants with modern air conditioning systems, clean room for micro-electronics and pharmaceutics productive plants and for bio-research labs.
Buildings’ Environment and Energy Systems. Activity concerns building envelope components, building service systems and indoor microclimate analysis and control, together with rational use of energy and comfort achievement. tri-generation systems, solar energy use. Acoustics and cultural heritage preservation techniques are part of the research topic.
Environment & Energy needs and end-uses. Research concerns the environmental impact of energy use and conversion, the planning and management of the energy technologies at different spatial levels (urban, regional, national and global) with the aim of increasing efficiency, safety and reliability, reducing environmental impact, and improving the social benefit.


Research Topics
Optimal design of compact and micro heat exchangers
Contact: Geert Buckinx - Tine Baelmans
This PhD mains at multi-scale flow and heat transfer modelling for compact heat exchangers. Design methods will be developed for maximal power density and performance of compact heat exchangers. Adjoint optimization techniques will also be developed for heat transfer surfaces.
Optimisation of a thermo hydraulic network model based design for power transformers
Contact: Joris Coddé - Tine Baelmans
The PhD is in cooperation with CG Power systems, a Belgian power transformer manufacturer. The goal is to develop a thermo-hydraulic model based on physics for the thermal evaluation of power transformers.
Optimal plasma edge configurations for next step fusion reactors
Contact: Wouter Dekeyser - Tine Baelmans
Computational nuclear fusion reactor divertor design is extremely CPU demanding due both the complex edge plasma models and the large number of design variables. Using advanced adjoint-based optimization algorithms for PDE constrained problems, we aim to speed up the design cycle and develop divertors which can safely handle the power and particle exhaust of the fusion reactor, while satisfying material, engineering and core stability constraints.
Development of an entropy-based design methodology for cooling systems of data centers
Contact: Ruben Gielen - Tine Baelmans
This research focuses on the improvement of cooling systems for electronics. The aim of this work is the development of a methodology to efficiently design and retrofit cooling systems. This methodology takes into account technical as well as economical parameters in order to achieve the optimal cooling system, depending on the imposed objective. The methodology is characterized by a systematic approach which is demanding much less computational power than current design methodologies. The second part of the PhD thesis concentrates on the practical implementation of the developed methodology. Cooling systems for rack servers and data centers are designed and improved. .
Enhanced single phase micro structured heat sinks
Contact: Tijs Van Oevelen - Tine Baelmans
Exploration of numerical methods for modeling and optimization in the design of micro structured heat sinks for electronic components. The research is conducted in the framework of the HyperCool-IT project.
Transient compact modeling methodologies for the thermal analysis of 3D-ICs
Contact: Federica Lidia Teresa Maggioni - Tine Baelmans
The objective of this PhD is to develop a methodology for a transient thermal compact model to allow fast calculations of the temperature distribution and evolution in 3D stacks. The model will include thermal impact of local small scale structures such as TSVs and microbumps as well as the larger scale effects such as the package, PCB and cooling solutions.
Single-phase Cooling Concepts for Electrical Devices
Contact: Peng Zhong - Tine Baelmans
The goal of this PhD research is to find an advanced yet practical solution for cooling high power density microelectronics by using micro-channel heat sink operating with single-phase flow. Both CFD simulations and experiment will be performed to study the enhancement of the new desgins of the microchannel heat sinks.
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) methods for Aeroacoustics
Contact: Vladimir Jovanovic - Johan Meyers - Tine Baelmans
Fully developed compressible turbulent flows over open cavities are dominated by the large scale coherent structures (CS). Those appear to be the most energy containing and responsible for the aerodynamic noise generation. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is a post-processing method which is to be applied upon the data obtained from 3D DNS/LES open cavity numerical simulations.