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Kyle Daun is a Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo.
His main research interests are heat conduction from aerosolized nanoparticles, laser-based combustion tomography, heat treatment in materials processing, and optimal design of industrial combustion devices. Professor Daun’s research group studies inverse problems that arise in combustion and heat transfer, including laser-based nanoparticle metrology, optical tomography, and design optimization of combustion devices and industrial furnaces.
From 2004 to 2007, Professor Daun was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and then a research officer at the Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology at the National Research Council Canada (NRC-ICPET) in Ottawa. As a research officer, he investigated radiation heat transfer in solid oxide fuel cells with Dr. Steven Beale, and then helped develop and improve combustion diagnostics (line-of-sight-attenuation, laser-induced incandescence) with Dr. Greg Smallwood and Dr. Fengshan Liu. Amongst other accomplishments, he was one of the first to experimentally characterize the gas-surface scattering physics underlying thermal accommodation in LII, which he later validated through molecular dynamics simulations.
Professor Daun is also a referee for the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT), Applied Optics, and the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
Professor Daun was awarded the JQSRT Young Scientist award (now called the Ray Viskanta award) that recognises the top international researcher in thermal radiation under 36 years of age in 2010, and the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship in 2015.
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
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