GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED:

In Progress:

Ph.D.

1.            At-Tasneem Mohd Amin, Ph.D., Numerical Simulations of Supercritical Flow and Heat Transfer, since September 2015.

2.            Azim Bin Mohd Arshad, Ph.D., Experimental Studies of Air-Water Flows in a Header/Feeder System, since January 2016.

3.            Dana Duong, M.A.Sc., Accelerating and Decelerating Turbulent Flows, since September 2017.

 

M.A.Sc.

4.            Abrerrazzak Mouslim, M.A.Sc., Supercritical Heat Transfer, since September 2015.

5.            Chao Hong, M.A.Sc., since summer 2017.

6.            Lu Zhou, M.A.Sc., since September 2017.

7.            Gnanamurugan Ganapathy, M.A.Sc., Experimental Studies on Radon Gas Diffusion, since May 2017. Technical Officer, National Research Council of Canada.

8.            Curtis Livingston, M.A.Sc., Turbulent Flow Structure near a Moving Wall, since September 2017.

Completed (with current or latest known occupation and employer):

Ph.D.

9.            Aurelian Tanase, Ph.D., 2017, Effect of Obstructions on the Flow Structure and Heat Transfer in Single-phase Pipe Flows (co-supervised by D. Groeneveld), since January 2008, Nuclear Safety Analyst, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa.

10.         Ahmad Eter, Ph.D., 2016. Supercritical Heat Transfer (co-supervised by D. Groeneveld), Mechanical Designer, Amec Foster Wheeler, Toronto.

11.         Amir Behnamian, Ph.D., 2015, Experimental Studies of Scalar Transport and Mixing in a Turbulent Shear Flow, Canadian Wildlife Service.

12.         Laura Haya, Ph.D., 2015, Measurements of Flow through a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve in an Anatomically Accurate Model of the Aorta, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo.

13.         Hassan Shaban, 2015, Experimental Investigations of Internal Air-water Flows, Data Scientist, Open Energy Efficiency, USA.

14.         Hussam Zahlan, Ph.D., 2015, Look-up Tables for Transcritical Heat Transfer, (co-supervised by D. Groeneveld), Research Scientist, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario.

15.         Christina Vanderwel, Ph.D., 2014, Turbulent Diffusion in Uniformly Sheared Flow, Lecturer, University of Southampton.

16.         George Choueiri, Ph.D., 2014, Experimental Investigations of Flow Development, Gap Instability and Gap Vortex Street Generation in Eccentric Annular Channels, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria.

17.         Matthew Doyle, Ph.D., 2011, Simulation of Myocardium Motion and Blood Flow in the Heart with Fluid-structure interaction (co-supervised by Y. Bourgault), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto.

18.         Pascal Tremblay, Ph.D., 2007, 2-D, 3-D and 4-D Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for the Time-Continuous Space-Time Finite Element Method with Application to the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations (co-supervised by Y. Bourgault), Postdoctoral Fellow, GIREF, Quebec.

19.         Sean Bailey, Ph.D., 2006, The Interaction of a Wing-Tip Vortex and Free-Stream Turbulence; Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, USA.

20.         Dongil Chang, Ph.D., 2006, Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in Rod Bundles, PDF, UOttawa.

21.         Warren Dunn, Vortex Shedding from Cylinders with Step-Changes in Diameter in Uniform and Shear Flows, Ph.D., 2004, Research Engineer, CAE, Montreal.

22.         Sébastien Delorme, Biomechanical Analysis of Ankle Kinematics and Ligament Strain in Snowboarding, Ph.D., 2004 (co-supervised by M. Lamontagne), Research Officer, National Research Council.

23.         Benoit Kislich-Lemyre, Ph.D., 2002, The Large-Scale Structure of Uniformly Sheared Turbulence and its Distortion by a Solid Wall at Rest or in Motion, President, DataVisual, Ottawa.

24.         Mohsen Ferchichi, Measurements of Small-Scale Statistics and Probability Density Functions in Passively Heated Shear Flow, Ph.D., 1999; Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

25.         Mohamed Sadok Guellouz, Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in Rod Bundles, Ph.D., 1998; Assistant Professor, Ecole National d’Ingenieurs de Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia.

26.         Akbar Sahrapour, Optimal Control of Time Dependent Viscous Flow with Potential Application to Artificial Hearts, Ph.D., 1995 (co-supervised by N.U. Ahmed); Applications Engineer, Flomerics Inc., Austin, Texas, USA.

27.         Brahim Chebbi, Manipulation of Nearly Homogeneous Turbulence, Ph.D., 1993; Professor, Algonquin College, Ottawa.

28.         Arthur Gordon Lawrence Holloway, The Effects of Curvature on Sheared Tur­bulence, Ph.D., 1989; Professor and Chair, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

29.         Umesh Karnik, Experiments on the Structure of Turbulence and the Diffusion of Heat from a Line Source in Uniformly Sheared Flows, Ph.D., 1988; Research Scientist, Novacor Research and Technology Corp., Calgary.

 

M.A.Sc.

30.         Dana Duong, M.A.Sc., 2017, Accelerating and Decelerating Flows in Rod Bundles, September 2013 – September 2017.

31.         Nathan Kline, M.A.Sc. 2017, Heat Transfer Deterioration at Supercritical Pressures, Engineer, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

32.         Armel Don, M.A.Sc. 2015, Structure of Turbulent Flow in a Rod Bundle, Design Engineer, Linamar Corp.

33.         Kai Jiang, M.A.Sc. 2015, An Experimental Facility for Studying Heat Transfer in Supercritical Fluids.

34.         Etienne Lessard, M.A.Sc., 2014, Measurements in Horizontal Air-water Pipe Flows Using Wire-mesh Sensors, Engineer, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario.

35.          Steffen Pentelow, Wing-tip Vortex structure and Wandering, M.A.Sc., 2014. Design Engineer, Water Resources Engineer, Stantec.

36.         William Stannus, Characterization of a Condensing Air Filter, M.A.Sc., 2010, Engineer, Norbord Inc., Montreal.

37.         Craig Smith, M.A.Sc., 2010, Effect of Inlet Temperature Non-uniformity on High-pressure Turbine Performance; deceased.

38.         Christina Vanderwel, Coherent Structures in Uniformly Sheared Turbulence, M.A.Sc., 2009; Ph.D. student, University of Ottawa.

39.         Michael Paciocco, Measurements of Pulsatile Flow in an Idealized Ventricular Assist Device, M.A.Sc., 2009; Research Engineer, North Channel Capital Partners, Sault Ste. Marie.

40.         Andrew Corber, The Performance of a Pressure Atomizer with a Flow Obstruction Upstream of the Nozzle, M.A.Sc., 2009; Research Engineer, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.

41.         George Choueiri,  An Experimental Study of Natural Convection in Vertical Open-Ended Concentric and Eccentric Annuli, M.A.Sc., 2009; PhD student, University of Ottawa.

42.         Derek Lastiwka, Influence of Rotor Blade Scaling on the Numerical Simulation of a High pressure Gas Turbine, M.A.Sc., 2009; CFD Analyst, Naiad Company Ltd., Calgary.

43.         Andrew Cameron, Structure of a low momentum elevated jet in a cross flow, M.A.Sc., 2008 (co-supervised by M. Johnson, Carleton University); Wind Energy Analysis Engineer, Garrad Hassan Canada, Inc.

44.         Matthew Doyle, Simulation of Blood Flow in a Ventricular Assist Device with Fluid-Structure Interaction Effects, M.A.Sc., 2004 (co-supervised by Y. Bourgault); Doctoral Student, University of Ottawa.

45.         Warren Dunn, M.A.Sc., Visualization of Flow Past a Model of the CF-18 Aircraft in a Water Tunnel, M.A.Sc., 1998 (co-supervised by B.H.K. Lee); Research Engineer, CAE, Montreal.

46.         Philip John Zwart, Grid Turbulence in Compressible Flow, M.A.Sc., 1996; AEA Technology, Waterloo, Ontario.

47.         Fenella Anne De Souza, Experiments in Highly Sheared, Nearly Homogeneous Turbulence, M.A.Sc., 1993; Research Officer, National Research Council, Ottawa.

48.         Faouzi Trabelsi, Pulsatile Flow in a Conical Tube, M.A.Sc., 1993; Engineer, Stantec Consulting Ltd., Ottawa.

49.         Mohsen Ferchichi, Evolution of a Thermal Mixing Layer in Uniformly Sheared Flows, M.A.Sc., 1990; Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

50.         Mohamed Sadok Guellouz, Heat Transfer in Rod Bundle Subchannels, M.A.Sc., 1990; Assistant Professor, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario.

51.         Brahim Chebbi, Experiments in Low Reynolds Number Flows, M.A.Sc., 1989; Mitel Corp., Ottawa.

52.         Michel Szymczak, Flow Visualization of Cavitating, High-Speed, Submerged Water Jets, M.A.Sc., 1988 (co-supervised by A. Fahim); Research Scientist, Defence Research Establishment, Valcartier, Quebec.

53.         Barrack Henry Ouma, Experiments in Rod Bundle Subchannel Flows with Varying Rod-Wall Proximity, M.A.Sc., 1988; Senior Lecturer, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

54.         Sureshkumar Sitaraman, Experiments in Turbulent Bundle Flows, M.A.Sc., 1985; Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

55.         Arthur Gordon Lawrence Holloway, Towards a Turbulence Model for Industrial Heat Exchanger Flows, M.A.Sc., 1984; Professor, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

56.         Umesh Karnik, Experiments on Uniformly Sheared Turbulence, M.A.Sc., 1983; Research Scientist, Novacor Research and Technology Corp., Calgary.

 

M.Eng.

57.         Shaji Manipurath, M.Eng., Effect of Elevated Injection Temperature on Pressure Atomization of Jet Fuel, M.Eng., 2013; Team Leader, Gas Turbine Facilities, National Research Council, Ottawa.

58.         Julia Turriff, M.Eng, 2012 (transferred from M.A.Sc.); Aerodynamicist, MDS Aero Support Corp., Ottawa.

59.         Mohamed Elashheb, M.Eng., 2010 (transferred from M.A.Sc.)

60.         Bharat Bhandari, Experimental Study of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Vertical Concentric and Eccentric Annuli, M.Eng., 2006; Engineer, Hatch Ltd., Saskatoon.

61.         Christopher Kirney, Hot-Wire Response in High Subsonic Flow, M.Eng., 2005; NRCan.

62.         Roch Vaillancourt, Computation of Low Reynolds Number Compressible Flow and Heat Transfer Past a Cylinder, M.Eng., 2003; Group Leader, Inco, Sudbury.

63.         Bo Jiang, A Review of Literature on Axial Flows in Channels with Narrow Gap Regions, M.Eng., 2002, Fox Engineering Consulting Ltd., Ottawa.

64.         Vishwanath Ramaswamy, A Method for Measuring and Analyzing the Swirling Turbulent Flow in a Constant Volume Vessel, M.Eng., 1997 (co-supervised by R. Milane); Research Engineer, Electronic Data Systems, Ottawa.

65.         Biraj K. Bora, Mathematical Models of Arterial Blood Flow, M.Eng., 1986; Engineer, Atomic Energy of Canada, followed by private consulting.

66.         Abdulkarim Busedra, The Use of Pressure Tubes in Flow Measurement, M.Eng., 1984; Faculty Member, Garyounis University, Libya.

 

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS:

67.         Hadi Moradi (Ph.D., Western University); CFD Analysis of Gas-Liquid Flows, since July 2016.

68.         Jovan Nedic (Ph.D., Imperial College of Technology, London, UK); Turbulence Structure and Turbulent Transport (July 2014 – July 2016); Assistant Professor, McGill University.

69.         Elad Rind (Ph.D., University of Southampton); Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics (November 2010 - June 2012); ChempChamp North America.

70.         Yuan Liu (Ph.D., Carleton University); CFD of Two-phase Flows (November 2010 - April 2011); Consulting Firm, Ottawa.

71.         Ahmed El-Shaboury (Ph.D., University of Manitoba); Supercritical Heat Transfer (March - August 2009); Assistant Professor, Assiut University, Egypt.

72.         Dongil Chang (Ph.D., University of Ottawa); Postdoctoral Fellow; Numerical Simulations of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rod Bundles (January  – November 2006); Unsteady Simulations of Jet Engine Flows (December 2006 – December 2010).

73.         Timothy Rennie (Ph.D., McGill University); Gas Exchange in Modified Atmosphere Packaging, Annular Flow Instability; (September 2005 – August 2007); Assistant Professor, University of Guelph, Kemptville College.

74.         Warren Dunn (Ph.D., University of Ottawa); Cavity Flows (October 2004 - September 2005) (co-supervised by B.H.K. Lee); Vortices (October- December 2005); Research Engineer, CAE, Montreal.

75.         Aziz Madrane (Ph.D.); CFD (September 1999 - August 2000); DLR, Braunschweig, Germany.

76.         Mohsen Ferchichi (Ph.D., University of Ottawa); Turbulent Mixing (May - June 2000); Associate Professor, Lakehead University.

77.         Rakesh K.  Singh (Ph.D., University of Manitoba); Pulsatile Flows (January 1996 - 1998); R&D Manager, BOC Edwards, California.

78.         Akbar Sahrapour (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1995); Computation of Rod Bundle Flows (September 1995 - December 1995), Flomerics, Austin, Texas.

79.         Patrick Germain (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1993); High Speed Aerodynamics (Jan. - Mar. 1994).

80.         Brahim Chebbi (Ph.D., U. of Ottawa, 1993); Wing Aerodynamics (September 1993 - March 1994).

81.         Clemens Monir (Ph.D., T.U. Braunschweig, 1990); Computation of Turbulent Flows (October 1990 - September 1991), Procter & Gamble, The Netherlands.

82.         Umesh Karnik (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1988); Turbulent Diffusion (May - September 1988); Bundle Flows (May 1989 - December 1990); Novacor, Calgary.

83.         Panagiotis Prinos (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1985); Duct Flows, Bundle Flow, Engine Research (September 1984 - May 1986); Professor, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

84.         J. Maciej Floryan (Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980); Viscous Flow in Cavities (January - June 1981); Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

 

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

85.         Dongil Chang (Ph.D., University of Ottawa); Research Associate; Numerical Simulations of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rod Bundles (2011 – 2015); CFD Software Developer, CFD Company, New York State, USA.

86.         Erricos Stapountzis (Ph.D., Imperial College, University of London, 1978); Bundle Flow, Vortex Shedding (October 1982 - August 1983); Associate Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece.

 

VISITING PROFESSORS & SCHOLARS:

87.         Abdulkarim Busedra (Professor, University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya); CFD Analysis of Natural Convection in Annular Channels (January – August 2015).

88.         Sebiha Yildiz (Associate Professor, Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey); Supercritical Heat Transfer (March 2012 - January 2013).

89.         Gordon Holloway (Professor, University of New Brunswick); Vortex Studies (June 2011).

90.         Bong-Hyun Cho (Principal Researcher, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute); Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics (July 2008 – June 2009).

91.         André Giovannini, (Professor, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse & Département de Mécanique Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III); Vortex Simulations (May - June 2008).

92.         Reza Hosseini (Associate Professor, Amirkabir University of Technology, Teheran, Iran); Natural Convective Heat Transfer in Eccentric Annuli (May 2005 – September 2006).

93.         Ralph Budwig (Professor, University of Idaho);  Periodic Flows, Compressible Shear Flow (August 1993 - July 1994); Professor and Chair, University of Idaho.

94.         Changshen Zou (Associate Professor, China Institute of Mining and Technology); High-speed Water Jets  (August 1988 - June 1991).

 

CO-OP STUDENTS AND OTHER RESEARCH ASSISTANTS:

95.         Curtis Livingston, Research Assistant, summer 2017.

96.         Nathaniel Mailhot, USRA Research Assistant, fall 2014.

97.         Nathan Kline, Research Assistant, summer 2014.

98.         Michael Coyle, Research Assistant, summer 2013.

99.         Rachel Andersen, Co-op student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, summer 2010.

100.      Hussam Zahlan, Graduate Research Assistant (co-supervised with Dr. D. Groeneveld), fall 2009.

101.      Noam Lightstone, Co-op student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, fall 2009.

102.      Alex Melo, Co-op student, fall 2008.

103.      André Lormand, Research Assistant, summer 2008.

104.      David Chabot, Co-op student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, summer 2005.

105.      Guillaume Desjardins, NSERC Undergraduate Scholarship, summer 2004.

106.      Guillaume Desjardins, NSERC Undergraduate Scholarship, summer 2003.

107.      Vinothan Sarsewara, Co-op student, Software Engineering, University of Ottawa, summer 2003.

108.      Denis Pilette (co-supervised with Drs. B.H.K. Lee and M. Yaras), Winter-Spring 2001.

109.      Roch Vaillancourt, summer 1999.

110.      Andrew Woronko, fall 1998 (co-supervised with Dr. B.H.K. Lee), Co-op student from University of Waterloo.

111.      Numa Marquez, M.A.Sc., summer 1998.

112.      Sébastien Marineau-Mes, summer 1993.

113.      Richard Delage, NSERC Summer Scholarship, summer 1986.

114.      Pierre Aubrey, NSERC Summer Scholarship, summer 1985.

115.      Ike Van Cruyningen, NSERC Summer Scholarship from University of Waterloo, summer 1982.

 

FOREIGN Ph.D., DIPLOMA, “MASTER” THESES, DEA AND PROJECTS SUPERVISED:

116.      Romain Baron, ISAE-ENSMA, Poitiers, France, 2017.

117.      Florian Trentesaux, ENSE3, Grenoble, France, 2016-17.

118.      Florian Feuerstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2016.

119.      Gianfrancesco Melina, Imperial College, UK, 2016.

120.      Mathieu Nicolay, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2015.

121.      Pierre-Yves Perrin, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2014.

122.      Laure Sainfort, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2014.

123.      Emmanuel Sablone, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2012.

124.      Jean-Baptiste Delalande, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2012.

125.      Florent Cologon, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2011.

126.      Michaël Robert, SUPAERO, Toulouse, France, 2010.

127.      Loïc Maudou, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2010.

128.      Imed Khabbouchi, ENIM, Monastir, Tunisia, 2009.

129.      Mamadou Chérif Diallo, University of Paris, Ouest, 2009.

130.      Anne-Flore Houlet, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2009.

131.      Amandine Hamel, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2008.

132.      Imed Khabbouchi, ENIM, Monastir, Tunisia, 2007.

133.      Semi Zamouri, ESSTIN, Nancy, France, 2007.

134.      Alban Lamy, ESSTIN, Nancy, France, 2007.

135.      Florian Baratto, INP Grenoble, France, 2005.

136.      Grégory Quinard, ESSTIN, Nancy, France, 2005.

137.      Estelle Piot, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2004.

138.      Jean-Baptiste Vergniaud, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2004.

139.      Eric Menu, ESSTIN, Nancy, France, 2004.

140.      Erwin George, ESIP, Poitiers, France, 2002.

141.      Céline Audoin, ESIP, Poitiers, France, 2002

142.      Mélanie Cabannes, ESIP, Poitiers, France, 2001.

143.      Anne Gosset, ESSTIN, Nancy, France, 2001.

144.      Denis Pilette, ISITV, Toulon, France, 2000 .

145.      Sébastien Jeannelle, INP, ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, 2000.

146.      Yoann Duriaud, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2000.

147.      Odilon Faivre, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Paris, 1999.

148.      Thomas Sauvalle, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Paris, 1999.

149.      Arnaud Deslandes, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Paris, 1996.

150.      Jean-Michel  Boy, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Paris, 1996.

151.      Sylvain Paquin, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Paris, 1995.

152.      Bernd Lamparter, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1994.

 

UNDERGRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED:

153.      Ibrahim Rizk, 2016

154.      Nathan Kline, 2013-2014

155.      David Zuliani, 2012-2013

156.      Alex Melo, 2009

157.      George Choueiri, 2005-2006

158.      David Chabot, 2005 (incomplete)

159.      William Stannus, 2004

160.      Patrizio Vena, 2003-2004

161.      Pierre-Luc Drapeau, 2003

162.      Guillaume Beaudin, 2003

163.      Eric Benoit, 1997

164.      Mathew Keown, 1996

165.      Marc-André Fry, 1995

166.      Gordon Cormier, 1995

167.      Frank Neizert, 1993

168.      Sébastien Marineau-Mes, 1993

169.      Walid Chamoun, 1991

170.      Christian Desjardins, 1990

171.      Sean Rafferty, 1990

172.      John Halvorsen, 1989

173.      François Terillon, 1989

174.      Marc Tremblay, 1989

175.      Andrew Bardwell, 1989

176.      Christian Pelchat, 1988

177.      Jocelyn Lauzon, 1988

178.      David Hopkinson, 1988

179.      Luc Tittley, 1985

180.      Michel Szymczak, 1984

181.      Jacques Liautaud, 1983

182.      Guy Larocque, 1983

183.      Jean Agiomavritis, 1983

184.      Maurice Labonté, 1982