New seminar series highlights engineering student research
The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland has launched a weekly seminar series to showcase graduate student research.
Beginning on Friday, Jan. 20, weekly seminars from graduate students and faculty will take place, highlighting research projects undertaken by engineering students. The lecture themes will be wide ranging, topical and informative.
"Seminars such as these are a great way to promote student research at Memorial University and provide insight into the type and quality of research undertaken by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science," said Dr. Yuri Muzychka, professor, mechanical engineering. "They are also a wonderful way for students to practice for upcoming comprehensive exams, thesis seminars, paper presentations for upcoming conferences and for presenting summaries of ongoing work. In addition to our students, engineering faculty members are also encouraged to participate."
During the first seminar on Jan. 20, PhD candidate Vandad Talimi will offer a look at fixed frame and moving frame numerical simulations of heat transfer in microscale slug flows.
Throughout this lecture, the audience will hear how two phases of slug flows have been investigated widely during recent years, with one of the main objectives being to increasing heat transfer at small scales.
Researchers have conducted both experimental and numerical methods to provide details of the slug flow characteristics but large gaps still exist in this field. Numerical simulations can be performed using two different methods: fixed frame and moving frame simulations.
Fixed frame simulation of slug flow is time consuming since the computational domain includes a large number of cells. This has encouraged some researchers to carry out simulations using the moving frame technique which includes only one slug or one unit cell. In the present study, a slug flow was studied using both techniques and results were compared to show the extension of validity of the moving wall simulation under different wall thermal boundary conditions.
The Jan. 20 lecture begins at 2 p.m. in EN-4000. All faculty, staff and students from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and from throughout Memorial University are encouraged to attend. Refreshments and snacks are available after the seminar and admission is free.
