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

Group Bastiaans

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

Group of Power & Flow

Group 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

Group Deen

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

Giulia Finotello

The research mission of Giulia Finotello's group is to develop metal powder production, deposition and reactive process technologies,…

Group Homan

Group of Power & Flow

Group 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 Maes

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

Group Mi

Group of Power & Flow

Group Somers

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

Group Stoter

Nearly all fluids that flow at engineering relevant scales behave chaotically; they are turbulent. Creating digital twins of such…

Group Tang

Group Van Esch

Group of Power & Flow

Group Van Oijen

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

Our themes

theme within Power & Flow

Complex Multiphase Flows

This 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 theme 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…

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.

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Meet some of our Researchers

Former Doctoral Candidate

Chih-Chia Huang

Former Doctoral Candidate

Daoguan Ning

Postdoc

Jinlin Han

University Researcher

Abhijit Kalbhor

Full Professor

Hans Kuerten

Doctoral Candidate

Zhongcheng Sun

University Researcher

Yuri Shoshyn

Assistant Professor

Giulia Finotello

Associate Professor

Nico Dam

Associate Professor

Bart Somers

Former Doctoral Candidate

Vertika Saxena

Associate Professor

Rob Bastiaans

Assistant Professor
(Part-time)

Nijso Beishuizen

University Researcher

Yalin Wang

University Researcher

Xin Liu

University Researcher

Giel Ramaekers

Assistant Professor
(Part-time)

Xander Seykens

Doctoral Candidate

Andrea Di Matteo

Assistant Professor

Tess Homan

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Michael Golombok

Full Professor

Jeroen van Oijen

University Lecturer

Harry van Leeuwen

Doctoral Candidate

Alessandro Ballatore

Associate Professor

Bart van Esch

Doctoral Candidate

Pourya Rahnama

Full Professor

Philip de Goey

Doctoral Candidate

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor

Yali Tang

University Researcher

Viktor Kornilov

Doctoral Candidate

Leon Thijs

Doctoral Candidate

Toos van Gool

Assistant Professor

Noud Maes

Doctoral Candidate

Boyan Xu

Full Professor
(Part-time)

Bert Vreman

University Researcher

Mohammad Kojourimanesh

Full Professor

Niels Deen

Doctoral Candidate

Willie Prasidha

Project Leader

Tim Spee

University Researcher

Cemil Bekdemir

Postdoc

Hesheng Bao

Project Manager

Han van Kasteren

Doctoral Candidate

Diego A. Quan Reyes

Research Fellow

Marie Raida

University Researcher

Thijs Hazenberg

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