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Track 8: Fluids Engineering
8-13-2: FLUIDS ENGINEERING
Wednesday, November 13, 9:45AM–10:30AM
Room 155D,
Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center
The Smallest Fluids Technologies for the Largest Fluids
Challenge: Microfluidics for Energy and the Environment
(IMECE2019-14001)
David Sinton
University of Toronto
Abstract: Bayesian methods for uncertainty quantification (UQ)
provide the opportunity to identify model form uncertainty in
both measurements and models. Under sponsorship of the
U.S. DOE NNSA, we have used HPC (10–250 thousand cores)
with scalable large eddy simulations (LES) for utility scale
(100–1000 MW) particle-laden pulverized coal and biomass
power boilers. We have found that these UQ-methods have
allowed us to use data from models and measurements to
extrapolate from laboratory scale experiments to full-scale
predictions. The resulting Bayesian posterior predictive
includes the effect of uncertainty from model parameters,
scenario parameters, and model form uncertainty in both the
instrument models and the predictive physics-based LES
models.
Bio: David Sinton is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of
Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Microfluidics and
Energy. He was the Associate Chair of Research in Mechanical
& Industrial Engineering, as well as the Interim Vice-Dean of
Research in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering.
Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Dr. Sinton was an
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the
University of Victoria, and a Visiting Associate Professor at
Cornell University. The Sinton Lab is application-driven and
develops fluid systems for energy and the environment. The
group developed a library of industrial fluid testing systems
to improve chemical performance in the energy industry,
now commercialized through the startup Interface Fluidics.
The group is currently developing fluid systems to produce
renewable fuels from CO2, to develop energy efficient industrial
working fluids, and to quantify the environmental impacts of
future climate conditions. Dr. Sinton was an NSERC E.W.R.
Steacie Memorial Fellow, and is a FASME and FAAAS. He
serves on the advisory board of the journal Lab on a Chip.
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Track 9: Heat Transfer and Thermal
Engineering
9-69-1: HEAT TRANSFER AND THERMAL
ENGINEERING
Tuesday, November 12, 9:45AM–10:30AM
Room 255C,
Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center
Using Additive Manufacturing to Advance Designs in
Convective Cooling
(IMECE2019-14002)
Karen A. Thole
Pennsylvania State University
Abstract: Recent technological advances in the field of
additive manufacturing (AM) have widened the design
space for complex convective cooling designs. Using additive
manufacturing allows for increasingly small and complex
geometries to be fabricated with little increase in time or
cost. The opportunity for heat transfer engineers is to exploit
the use of additive manufacturing in re-thinking how to
optimize cooling schemes for components, or generate novel
heat transfer surfaces. Interesting roughness features result
when using additive manufacturing, which are a strong function
of the build parameters. The inherent roughness using additive
manufacturing can, in fact, be used to improve convective heat
transfer beyond that of highly engineered surfaces. New design
tools can generate components with enhanced performance;
although, further improvements in accounting for roughness
are needed.
Bio: Dr. Karen A. Thole is a Distinguished Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Thole’s expertise is heat transfer and cooling of gas turbine
airfoils through detailed experimental and computational
studies. At Penn State, Dr. Thole founded the Steady Thermal
Aero Research Turbine Laboratory (START) lab, which houses
a unique test turbine facility and is a center of excellence in
heat transfer for a major gas turbine manufacturer. Dr. Thole
has published over 230 archival journal and conference papers,
and supervised over 65 dissertations and theses. She currently
serves as a Governor on ASME’s Board of Governors and is
a member of NASA's National Aeronautics Committee. She
has been recognized by the U.S. White House as a Champion
of Change for STEM, the Rosemary Schraer Mentoring
Award, and the Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award.
Dr. Thole also received the 2014 Society of Women Engineer’s
Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, the 2015 ASME
George Westinghouse Gold Medal, the 2016 Edwin F. Church
Medal, and the 2019 AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Award.
She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas
at Austin.