Alumni & completed PhD's

  • Somayeh Parsa - Modelling of Premixed Dual-Fuel Combustion in Marine Engines
  • Hugo Monteyne - Energy-efficient dehumidification
  • Filip Bronchart - Thermodynamics of greenhouse systems
  • Zaaquib Ahmed - Thermal modeling of a steel slab in a continuous walking beam reheat furnace of a hot strip mill
  • Jari Raeymackers - Experimental investigation of flow boiling heat transfer under a time-varying heat flux
  • Jera Van Nieuwenhuyse - Heat transfer to supercritical refrigerants in the near-critical region
  • Elias Vieren - Advanced industrial high-temperature heat pumps
  • Tara Larsson - A pressure-oscillation-based RON estimation method for spark ignition fuels
  • Tom Robeyn - An alternative pressure-oscillation-based octane rating method
  • Ward Suijs - Scaling the performance of methanol-fueled spark ignition engines
  • Toon Demeester - Efficient quasi-Newton methods for steady free surface flow
  • Yuanfeng Wang - Comparative analysis and optimization of hydrogen combustion mechanism 
  • Jeroen Dierickx - Use of Methanol in compression ignition engines through the dual fuel combustion process
  • Ilya T'Jollyn - Assessment of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux
  • Katarina Simi´c - Experimental performance analysis of a fuel cell unit for various natural gas-hydrogen fuel mixtures
  • Willem Faes - Strategies for the design and predictive maintenance of heat exchangers exposed to a geothermal brine
  • Thomas Schoonjans - Thermal model and energy optimization of the continuous annealing and processing line
  • Haohan Li - Dual-fuel engine combustion
  • Judith Vander Heyde - A Comparison of the Thermohydraulic Performance of Oil-Cooled Heat Sink Geometries for Power Electronics
  • Gilles Decan - CFD simulation of dual-fuel engine combustion
  • Louis Sileghem - Alternative fuels for spark ignition engines: alcohols/gasoline mixtures
  • Aditya Pillai
  • Alihan Kaya - Experimental study of nucleate and convective flow boiling in a large diameter horizontal tube
  • Marijn Billiet - Experimental performance study of metal foam in cooling applications
  • Duc-Khanh Nguyen - Fuel reforming using engine exhaust heat
  • Flavio Brighenti
  • Roel Verschaeren - An optical study of evaporating fuel sprays for medium speed engines
  • Marija Lazova - Characteristics of forced convection heat transfer to R125 at supercritical state in a horizontal tube
  • Asal Sharif - Performance of cross-corrugated plate heat exchangers made of polymeric and metallic materials
  • Stijn Broekaert - HCCI heat transfer
  • Ozer Bagci - Comparison of heat transfer and pressure drop between analytical and computational approaches
  • Lenka Bokisova - Thermal analysis of a plastic helical coil heat exchanger for a domestic water storage tank
  • Sven De Schampheleire - Natural convection in classical heat sinks and open-cell metal foam
  • Thomas De Cuyper - In-cylinder heat transfer
  • Bernd Ameel - Optimisation of compound louvred fin and vortex generator heat exchangers
  • Jakob Coulier- Use of methanol in compression ignition engines through the dual-fuel combustion process
  • Dieter Daenens - sustainable use of steam
  • Hugo Canière - Flow pattern mapping of horizontal evaporating refrigerant flow based on capacitive void fraction measurements
  • Kathleen De Kerpel - Refrigerant two-phase flow behaviour and pressure drop up- and downstream of a sharp return bend
  • Jonas Galle - Alternative fuels for compression ignition engines
  • Jeroen Vancoillie - Alternative fuels for spark ignition engines: alcohols
  • Henk Huisseune - Performance evaluation of louvered fin compact heat exchangers with vortex generators
  • Marnix Van Belleghem - Modelling coupled heat and moisture transfer between air and porous materials for building applications
  • Ivan Verhaert - Evaluation of an alkaline fuel cell as a micro-combined heat and power (micro-CHP) system for building applications using simulation
  • Joachim Demuynck - In-cylinder heat transfer measurement and modeling
  • Peter De Jaeger - The use of procalcitonin testing in adult patients in A&E departments with a Q-SOFA score as an additional predictor of the prognosis of sepsis
  • Marijke Steeman - Hygrothermal modelling for building energy simulation applications
  • Ramon Piloto Rodriguez - Determination of biodiesel influence on the performance of diesel engines
  • Arnout Willockx - Using the inverse heat conduction problem and thermography for the determinaton of local heat transfer coefficients and fin effectiveness for longitudinal fins
  • Hendrik-Jan Steeman - Modelling local hygrothermal interaction between airflow and porous materials for building applications 
  • Christophe T'Joen - Thermo-hydraulic study of inclined louvered fins