
Welcome
The Thermal Fluids Lab led by Dr. Tim Persoons is part of the Fluids & Heat Transfer research group in the Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin.
Our research deals with fluid mechanics and control of convective flows for enhanced sustainability in electronics cooling and energy system integration.
News
30 Sep 2022 | Wenguang Zhao wins the Best Poster Award in the 28th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), 2022 (see the Dept. MMBE announcement and https://therminic2022.eu/award-recipients/)
28-30 Sep 2022 | Tim Persoons chairs the 28th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) in Dublin (https://therminic2022.eu/)
17 Aug 2022 | Eoin Oude Essink and his brother Tadhg-Lorcan win the 2022 nTopology/EOS Responsible Part Challenge with an innovative heat sink design (read the School of Engineering article and TCD News article)
19 Jul 2022 | MAI graduate GearĂ³id Farrell publishes journal article on his final year project in Actuators, modelling drag reduction for cylinders in cross flow using porous surface coatings (read the article)
20 May 2022 | MAI students GearĂ³id Farrell and Naoise Barry awarded the Collen Prize and MAI Prize in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
26 Nov 2021 | Sahan Wasala awarded SFI Industry RD&I Fellowship to continue his fan aeroacoustics research in Seagate’s engineering labs in Minnesota and Colorado as of June 2022
23 Nov 2021 | MSc student Emilie Raymond awarded 2021/2022 Intel Masters Bursary for her final year project work entitled ‘Flexible heat pipe reduced order modelling for thermal energy harvesting‘