research interest/supervision

“Offshore wind,” Amirhossein Fathipour, 5/2023-present (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“Furthering centrifugal pump through the utility of entropy analysis,” Aida Fathipour, 1/2023-present (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“PCM-assisted solar drying of ricep,” Fatemeh Hosseini Fashami, 1/2022-12/2022, 9/2023-present (Supervisors: D. Ting & G. Reader).

“Microfluidic,” Gnanesh Nagesh, 1/2022-present (PhD Entrance Scholarship; Supervisors: J. Ahamed & D. Ting).

“High Reynolds flow around an inclined cylinder,” Ran Wang, 9/2021-present (PhD Entrance Scholarship; Supervisors: S. Cheng & D. Ting).

“SI engine combustion,” Navjot Sandhu, 5/2019-present ((PhD Entrance Scholarship; Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Supervisors: M Zheng & D. Ting).

“Design and development of a MEMS vibrating gyroscope with novel inner support springs,” Imran Khan,1/2017-9/2022 (PhD Entrance Scholarship; Supervisors: J. Ahamed & D. Ting).

“Enhancing thermoelectric generator performance,” Xi (William) Wang, 9/2018-4/2022 (Supervisors: D.Ting & P. Henshaw).

“Advanced ignition strategies for future internal combustion engines with lean and diluted fuel-air mixtures,” Dr. Zhenyi Yang, 9/2016-1/2021 (PhD Entrance Scholarship; Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology; Supervisors: M. Zheng & D. Ting).

“Furthering nuclear power,” Md. Shehab Uddin, 1/2024-present (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“Green hydrogen for commercial greenhouse,” Kayes Md. Abu Reza, 9/2023-present (Entrance Scholarship, Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“Small modular reactors for greenhouse,” Anup Jwala Poudel, 5/2023-present (Entrance Scholarship, Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“Approaching net-zero greenhouse agriculture,” Gurpreet Khanuja, 1/2023-present (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Ruparathna).

“Toward zero energy residential buildings design,” Safa Farshbaf Zinati, 9/2021-present (International Student Financial Support; Supervisors: D. Ting & G. Reader).

“Studying the influential parameters of an office building’s energy consumption in north America,” Naveen R. K. S. Bhoopal, 5/2021-9/2023 (Supervisors: D. Ting & J. Stagner).

“Energy savings from retrofitting residential buildings with phase change material integrated panel,” Oselen Joseph Imafidon, 1/2021-8/2022 (Entrance Scholarship; Supervisor: D. Ting).

“A thermal efficiency analysis on lean burn spark ignition engine,” Joshua Patrick Peter Jayaseelan, 9/2019-9/2021 (Supervisors: M. Zheng & D. Ting)

“Energy management and size optimization of hybrid energy systems in remote areas,” Mohammadreza Babaei Jamnani, 5/2020-8/2021 (Supervisors: R. Carriveau & D. Ting).

“Heat and fluid flow downstream of a row of finite-height circular cylinders,” Saarah Akhand, 1/2019-5/2021 (Supervisors: D. Ting & G. Reader).

“Exergy analysis of a small-scale trigenerative compressed air energy storage system,” Raghuveera Sai Sarath Dittakavi, 9/2018-5/2021 (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).

“Development of a pneumatically controllable microdroplet generator with electrical sensing,” Gnanesh Nagesh, 9/2019-4/2021 (Entrance Scholarship; Supervisors: J. Ahamed & D. Ting).

“Advanced exergy analysis of WhisperGen Stirling engine system,” Akash Mathew, 9/2018-4/2021 (Major Paper; Supervisors: D. Ting & G. Reader).

“Advanced energy modelling and life cycle assessment of indoor agriculture,” Sadaf Ekhtiari, 1/2019-1/2021 (Entrance Scholarship; Civil Engineering; Supervisors: R. Carriveau & D. Ting).

“Enhancing flat plate heat convection using a pair of winglets – the effect of transverse spacing,” Siddharth Koushik Mohanakrishnan, 1/2019-1/2021 (Supervisor: D. Ting).

“Modeling the flow and heat transfer in U-bend and coaxial borehole heat exchangers,” Hani Pakoohinejad, 9/2017-5/2020 (Supervisors: D. Ting & T. Bolisetti).

“Factors affecting photovoltaic system output in sub-arctic climate,” Avinash Singh, 5/2017-4/2020 (Supervisors: P. Henshaw & D. Ting).

“Development of dynamic modeling and control technologies for microelectromechanical gyroscopes,” Imrul M. Kaes, 9/2017-7/2019 (Ontario Graduate Scholarship; Supervisors: J. Ahamed & D. Ting).

“Smart water: short-term forecasting application in water utilities,” Motamad Hussein Bata, 9/2017-4/2019 (Civil Engineering; Supervisors: R. Carriveau & D. Ting).

“Vortex induced convective heat transfer augmentation,” Junguo Wang, 9/2017-3/2019 (Supervisor: D. Ting).

“Numerical simulation of the torus wake structure,” Ali Shams, 9/2016-2/2019 (Supervisors: D. Ting & R. Carriveau).