Department of Mechanical Engineering

Power & Flow

Power & Flow focuses on clean and efficient combustion and process technology, to cater for fast-growing energy demands.

Studying tomorrow’s fuels

Power & Flow focuses on clean and efficient combustion and process technology, to cater for fast-growing energy demands. Our mission is to provide education and to perform world-class scientific research on multiphase and reactive flows in the area of energy conversion and process technology, building a knowledge chain consisting of:

Our groups

Group of Power & Flow

Deen

"Multiphase and reactive flows are all around us. To make processes and equipment more sustainable we need to get the fundamentals right."

Group of Power & Flow

de Goey

"Combustion is responsible for 80% of our current energy supply and will remain to be extremely important in future due to its extremely...

Group of Power & Flow

Kuerten

"Flow keeps on surprising. The many aspects of turbulent flow make it a topic that remains worthy to study and the many applications will...

Group of Power & Flow

Bastiaans

Group Bastiaans focuses on mechanical engineering, modelling combustion and sustainable energy sources.

Group of Power & Flow

van Oijen

"The energy transition requires the development of clean and efficient conversion devices for alternative carbon-free fuels and energy...

Group of Power & Flow

Somers

The mission of the group is to develop ultra-clean combustion concepts for heavy-duty transport within the context of the necessary...

Our themes

theme within Power & Flow

Complex Multiphase Flows

The theme is related to various applications in the field of process technology, all involving complex multiphase flow phenomena. 

Theme within Power & Flow

Metal Fuels as dense CO2-free Energy Carriers

This research is concerned with a novel type of fuels: metal powders that have a tremendously high energy density and can act as a major...

Theme within Power & Flow

Combustion Systems and their Fuels

This theme is connected to the development of smart injection and combustion strategies of future ultra-clean and efficient combustion...

Meet some of our Researchers

Associate Professor

Rob Bastiaans

Robbert Willems

Assistant Professor

Tess Homan

Assistant Professor

Xander Seykens

Full Professor

Bert Vreman

Full Professor

Michael Golombok

Full Professor

Dirk Roekaerts

Full Professor

Hans Kuerten

Associate Professor

Nico Dam

Associate Professor

Bart van Esch

Assistant Professor

Yali Tang

Full Professor

Philip de Goey

Associate Professor

Bart Somers

Full Professor

Niels Deen

Associate Professor

Jeroen van Oijen

Student Opportunities

Are you a student interested in graduating or doing a project in the Power & Flow group? Our research covers a very broad range of subjects. We design, make and test systems for various power and flow applications. In most of our graduation projects we perform experimental, theoretical or numerical studies of the interplay between heat (production) and flow. Students use these studies to either understand the fundamentals of these heat and flow problems or to apply them and find practical solutions on how to operate or optimize the application.

Recent Publications

Our most recent peer reviewed publications

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