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Research Areas and Themes
Several research initiatives in the Fluid Mechanics and Fire Behaviour Group focus on experimental and analytical investigation into a broad class of fluid mechanics problems.
Current projects relate to measuring and modelling complex turbulent shear flows, environmental flows, and reacting turbulent flows. The detailed physics of these flows is studied using a combination of advanced experimental techniques and computational fluid dynamics.
Professor Vinny Gupta and Professor Cecile Devaud study Fire Research and Safety in the state-of-the-art Fire Facility Labs at the University of Waterloo. Professor Li Carolyn Ren conducts advanced research in microfluidics and is actively involved in engineering research. Professor F-S Lien’s research involves Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and turbulence models for 3D flows.
This research group focuses on developing techniques for the design, analysis and simulation of machines, mobile structures and pressure vessels. The group is active in the areas of pressure vessels for both low and high pressures, plastic gearing, nuclear components and piping, mechanisms and mechanics, dynamic machinery, and design using computer graphics. Fundamental work is carried out in plasticity theory and its application to bifurcation problems in manufacturing.
The group is also involved in basic research in kinematics, dynamics and control of flexible robot arms, and in Tribology - the study of friction, lubrication and wear. Extensive laboratory simulations, testing and non-destructive inspection are used to study failure modes and design improvements. These studies are supported by the development of analysis techniques in computer aided design, simulation techniques, finite element methods, failure analysis, plasticity, and continuum mechanics.
This group spans a variety of academic and industrial research areas, including advanced and additive Manufacturing, vehicle systems, robotics, biosensors, and more.
The group’s extensive, wide-ranging research has garnered interest and facilitated collaborations with industry leaders such as General Motors, Nuvation, GE Aviation, and Pratt and Wittney, to name a few.
The group conducts analytical, computational, and experimental research on a wide range of problems involving thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and fluid flow that are of fundamental and practical importance.
Materials Engineering and Processing Group in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering of the University of Waterloo consists of faculty members with a wide range of academic and industrial research experience.