Fluid Mechanics Research Group

About the Lab

  • The group conducts research in energy, aero/hydrodynamics, incompressible and compressible flow, and fundamental fluid mechanics.
  • In the area of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, the group's research focuses on design of wind and tidal turbine blades to improve efficiency.
  • The group's energy research focuses on technical assessment and design of energy systems including renewable energy conversion, alternative energy conversion, and building energy efficiency.
  • In the field multiphase flow, the group's research focuses on modeling of free surface flow, liquid-gas and gas-gas two-phase flow in refrigeration systems, subsurface flow interactions of wave devices, and pumps and pump systems design.
  • Other related research are also occasionally carried out such as simulations of air flow inside rooms and air conditioned vehicles, structural design of wind and tidal turbine blades transition from laminar to turbulent flow, wind turbine siting and farm layout, and wind, wave and tidal current resource assessment.

Personnel

 

Louis Angelo M. Danao, Ph.D., Group Head

Wind turbine blade design, techno-economic assessment of renewable energy systems, suitability analysis using GIS MCDA, design of steel and composite structures, CFD, FEA

Joseph Gerard T. Reyes, Ph.D.

Design of composite structures, kinematics and dynamics of complex mechanisms, environmental impact analysis of energy systems, energy management

Binoe E. Abuan, Ph.D.

Wind/tidal turbine blade design, wind/tidal turbine performance analysis, fluid mechanics, CFD, FEA

Julius Rhoan T. Lustro, Ph.D.

Turbulence, CFD, dynamical systems

Paul L. Rodgers, M.Sc.

Pumps and hydraulic turbine design, ship design including hydrostatics and stability, structural design, and power and propulsion

Virgel M. Arocena, M.Sc.

Turbomachinery and auxiliary systems design, CFD/FEA

Job Immanuel B. Encarnacion, M.Sc.

Tidal Turbine Blade Design, Wave and Current Interaction, BEMT, Sensitivity Analysis, Data Analytics and Statistics, Object Oriented Programming

Menandro S. Berana, D.Eng., Affiliate Faculty

Alternative refrigeration systems, renewable energy, two-phase flows, cooling and power generation from recoverable heat and other energy sources, energy efficiency

Christian N. Della, Ph.D., Affiliate Faculty

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials and Structures, CFD, FEA, Mechanical Design, Wind Turbine Blades, Micro-Hydroelectric Turbines

Featured Publications

  • Numerical Investigation on the Effects of Varying the Arc length of a Windshield on the Performance of a Highway Installed Banki Wind Turbine
  • Techno-Economic Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy in the Philippines
  • Numerical Investigation of the Performance of a Submersible Pump: Prediction of Recirculation, Vortex Formation, and Swirl Resulting from Off-Design Operating Conditions
  • Design of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine for Less Energetic Current Velocity Profiles
  • The Onset of Transient Turbulence in Minimal Plane Couette Flow