Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Research Interests:

Research interests in Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Renewable Energy Systems Environmental Flows Convective Heat Transfer in Multiphase Flow Fluid Structure Interaction Free Surface Hydrodynamics

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• A. Albadawia, D. B. Donoghue, A. J. Robinson, D. B. Murray, Y. M. C. Delauré. 2013. On the analysis of bubble growth and detachment at low Capillary and Bond numbers using Volume of Fluid and Level Set methods, Chemical Engineering Science,. 90,, pp77-91.
• A. Albadawia, D. B. Donoghue, A. J. Robinson, D. B. Murray, Y. M. C. Delauré. 2013. Influence of surface tension implementation in Volume of Fluid and coupled Volume of Fluid with Level Set methods for bubble growth and detachment. Accepted for Publication in Int. J. Multiphase Flow.
• A Albadawi, Y Delaure, D B Donoghue, A Robinson and D B Murray. 2012. Numerical investigation of volume of fluid and level set interface capturing methods for bubble growth and detachment. Journal Of Physics : Conference Series, 395, 012166,
• Alexander Yavorskyy, Oksana Shvydkiv, Carolin Limburg, Kieran Nolan , Yan M. C. Delauré and Michael Oelgemöller. 2012. Photooxygenations in a bubble column reactor. Green Chemistry, 14,, pp888-892.
• D B Donoghue, Y Delaure, A Albadawi, A Robinson and D B Murray. 2012. Bouncing bubble dynamics and associated enhancement of heat transfer. Journal Of Physics : Conference Series, 395, 012166,
• Kumar, S.S. and Delauré, Y.M.C. 2012. An Assessment of Suitability of a SIMPLE VOF/PLIC-CSF Multiphase Flow Model for Rising Bubble Dynamics. J. Computational Multiphase Flow. 4, 1, pp65-84.
• Senthilkumar S., Delauré,Y.M.C., Murray, D.B.,Donnelly, B. 2011. The effect of the VOF-CSF Static Contact Angle Boundary Condition on the Dynamics of Sliding and Bouncing Ellipsoidal Bubbles. International Journal Of Heat And Fluid Flow, 32, 5, pp964-972.
• Delauré, Y.M.C., Chan, V.S.S., and Murray, D.B. 2003. A Simultaneous PIV and Heat Transfer Study of Bubble Interaction With Free Convection Flow. Experimental Thermal And Fluid Science, 27, , pp911-926.
• V S S Chan, Y M C Delauré , D B Murray and J A Fitzpatrick. 2003. Simultaneous Time-Resolved Digital PIV and Heat Transfer Measurements in Convective Flows. Measurement Science & Technology, 15, , ppN1-N4.
• Delauré, Y.M.C. and Lewis, T. 2002. 3D Hydrodynamic Modelling of Fixed Oscillating Water Column Wave Power Plant by a Boundary Element Method. Ocean Engineering, 30 No. 3, , pp309-330.

• Abdulaleem Albadawi, Yan Delaure, David B. Donoghue, Anthony Robinson and Darina B. Murray, Numerical investigation of volume of fluid and level set interface capturing methods for bubble growth and detachment, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) ed.Eurotherm 2012, 04-SEP-12 - 07-SEP-12, Poitiers, France
• B Donnelly, A J Robinson, Y M C Delaure and D B Murray, Sliding bubble dynamics and the effects on surface heat transfer, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) ed.Eurotherm 2012, 04-SEP-12 - 07-SEP-12, Poitiers, France
• Donoghue DB, Delauré YMC, Robinson AJ and Murray DB, Heat transfer enhancement from bouncing bubble dynamics, 6th Baltic Heat Transfer Conference, 24-AUG-11 - 26-AUG-11, Tampere, Finland
• Senthilkumar, S. and Delauré, Y., Convective Heat Transfer of Air Bubble in Water with Variable Thermo-Physical Properties, International Conference on Thermal Energy and Environment INCOTEE 2011, 24-MAR-11 - 26-MAR-11, Tamilnadu India
• Senthilkumar, S. and Delauré, Y., Numerical Investigation of the Eect of Bubble Size on Heat Transfer Enhancement from a Heated Horizontal Cylinder, International Conference on Thermal Energy and Environment INCOTEE 2011, 24-MAR-11 - 26-MAR-11, Tamilnadu India
• Delauré Yan and Albadawi Abdulaleem, On Air Bubbles Sliding through a Thermal Boundary Layer A comparative study of Predicions by OpenFoam and Fluent's VOF Schemes, 5th OpenFOAM Workshop June 21, 2010 - June 24, 2010, 21-JUN-10 - 24-JUN-10, Gothenburg-Sweden
• Mehdipour R., Baniamerian, Z., Delauré Y. and Aghanajafi C., Three dimensional simulation of nucleate boiling heat and mass transfer in rectangular channels, 2nd International Conference on Energy Conversion and Conservation, 22-APR-10 - 25-APR-10, Hammamet Tunisia
• Kumar, B.,Crane, M., Delauré, Y., On the Development of Object Oriented Parallel Penta-diagonal Preconditioned Krlov Subspace (K-S) Solvers, Proceeding of European Simulation and Modeling Conference (ESM08), 29-OCT-08 - 29-OCT-08, Le Havre, France, 384 -
• Kumar, B., Delauré, Y, Crane, M, VOF/PLIC Method for Tracking Sharp Fluid Interfaces, Irish Mechanics Society: Joint Symposium on Advance in Mechanics, 15-MAY-08 - 16-MAY-08, Dublin Ireland
• Senthilkumar S. and Delauré Y., Convective heat transfer modelling of a multi-fluid flow using a VOF method, Int. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, 26-MAR-07 - 29-MAR-07, Reading UK
• Senthilkumar S. Delauré Y., A SIMPLE VOF_CSF multifluid flow solver, European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, 05-SEP-06 - 08-SEP-06, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
• Delauré Y., Senthilkumar S. and Kumar S., A Multigrid Navier-Stokes Solver for Unsteady Incompressible Multi-Fluid Flow Modeling, In: Tech Science Press ed.International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 01-DEC-05 - 06-DEC-05, Chennai, India
• Delauré Y., Chan V. & Murray D., Bubble Wake Interaction with Convective flow from a heated inclined flat plate, 11th international symposium on applications of laser techniques to fluid mechanics, 08-JUL-02 - 11-JUL-02, Lisbon, Portugal
• Delauré Y. & Lewis A., A 3D parametric study of a rectangular bottom mounted Oscillating Water Column power plant, International Society of Offshore Engineers, ISOPE 2001, 17-JUN-01 - 22-JUN-01, Stavenger, Norway
• Delauré Y. & Lewis A., A comparison of OWC response prediction by a Boundary Element Method with scaled model test results, 4th European Wave Energy Conference, 04-DEC-00 - 06-JUN-00, Aalborg, Danemark
• Delauré Y. & Lewis A., An experimental assessment of 3D Panel Methods for response prediction of generic Oscillating Water Columns, International Society of Offshore Engineers, ISOPE 2000, 28-MAY-00 - 02-JUN-00, Seattle, USA
• Delauré Y. & Lewis A., Wave Interaction with undamped OWC ¿ Non-linear sloshing interference with OWC heaving response, 3rd European Wave Energy Conference, 12-SEP-98 - 15-SEP-98, Patras, Greece