Team
Head of the research group
Professor Michel De Paepe (Bibliography)
Michel De Paepe (°1972) is professor of Thermodynamics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University.
He graduated as Master of Science in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Ghent University in 1995. In 1999 he obtained the PhD in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Ghent University, graduating on ‘Steam Injected Gas Turbines with Water Recovery’. In 2005 he spent 3 months as a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), doing research on flow regime detection.
Tenured Academic Staff
- Steven Lecompte – organic rankine cycles (Bibliography)
Scientific staff & PhD students
- Zaaquib Ahmed - 3D modeling of the slab in a walking-beam furnace
- Wim Beyne - 3D modeling of PCM-foam thermal storage systems
- Filip Bronchart - development of efficient dehumidification device for greenhouses (Bibliography)
- Willem Faes - Strategies for the design and predictive maintenance of heat exchangers used in geothermal applications
- Alihan Kaya - heat transfer and pressure drop of working fluids in subcritical ORCs (Bibliography)
- Marija Lazova - heat transfer and pressure drop of working fluids in supercritical ORCs (Bibliography)
- Hugo Monteyne - methodology for affordable sustainable building design for hot and humid climates
- Jasper Nonneman - test engineer
- Aditya Pillai
- Wito Plas
- Katarina Simić - Development of dynamic heat pump and TES models
- Ilya T'Jollyn - advanced cooling of power electronics (Bibliography)
- Jera Van Nieuwenhuyse
- Judith Vander Heyde
Supporting staff
- Thomas Blancke
- Frederik Martens
Former scientific staff
- Marijn Billiet - gas-liquid distribution of refrigerants in compact heat exhangers (Bibliography)
- Asal Sharif - composite heat exchangers (Bibliography)
- Özer Bağcı - compact heat exchangers (Bibliography "Research Gate"Bibliography Ugent)
- Flavio Brighenti
- Lenka Bokišová - composite heat exchangers (Bibliography)
- Bernd Ameel – compact heat exchangers (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Dieter Daenens
- Henk Huisseune (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Sven De Schampheleire (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Kathleen De Kerpel (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Marnix Van Belleghem (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Tom Catternan
- Joachim Demuynck (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Ivan Verhaert (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Peter De Jaeger (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Hugo Canière (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Marijke Steeman (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Arnout Willockx (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Hendrik-Jan Steeman (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Christophe T’Joen (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)
- Musa Abdullatif (Bibliography, PhD dissertation)