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, heat and mass transfer, acoustics and control of convective flows for next generation electronics cooling and sustainable energy system integration.
News
8 May 2026 | Gearóid Farrell, Rajesh Nimmagadda and Tim Persoons received the 2025 Harvey Rosten Award for excellence in electronics cooling and thermal management, in recognition of a CONNECT collaborative project with Shailesh Joshi, Danny Lohan and Eric Dede (Toyota Research Institute of North America) (read the blog post and the article)
6 Nov 2025 | Gearóid Farrell wins the CONNECT Tom Brazil Award for his contribution to filing a patent with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on novel light-weight heatsink design (read the post)
14 Oct 2025 | Delara Soltani and Mainendra Dewangan’s open access papers [1, 2] are among the Institute of Physics’ most impactful Irish publications of 2024
3 Jun 2025 | Congratulations to Gearóid Farrell for winning the ITherm 2025 Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen Best Paper Award in the System Level Thermal Management Track, and well done to Rajesh Nimmagadda, David Salter and other ITherm 2025 Best Paper nominees (check the post and ITherm page)
20 Mar 2025 | Congratulations to Wenguang Zhao for successfully defending his PhD thesis, examined by Prof John Kennedy (Trinity College Dublin) and Prof Gary Page (Loughborough University)
Tim Persoons Thermal Fluids Lab 