Staff Profile

Prof Jason  Reese

DPhil FInstP FIMechE FRSE

Weir Chair of Thermodynamics & Fluid Mechanics

Current Funded Projects

EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN (PITN-GA-2008-215504): "GASMEMS": researching gas flows in micro-scale devices

EPSRC Grant EP/D07455X/1: A Lattice Boltzmann model for non-equilibrium flows in micro/nano-systems

James Weir Foundation: The James Weir Postgraduate Scholarship, to support a PhD student for three years research in non-equilibrium flow systems engineering

EPSRC Grant EP/D007488/1 (Speculative Engineering call): Beyond Navier-Stokes: meeting the challenge of non-equilibrium gas dynamics

EPSRC Grant EP/F002467/1 Fluid Flows at the Nano Scale: From Molecular Dynamics to Hydrodynamics

EPSRC Grant EP/F014155/1 Extended Continuum Models for Transient and Rarefied Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics (Joint Grant Scheme with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)

EPSRC Grant EP/F005954/1 Supercomputing Resources and Support for the UK Applied Aerodynamics Consortium 2

Research Interests

For access to publication preprints from 2001, please follow this link, and select 'Browse', 'Author or Creator', Reese, Jason M. http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/view/depts/11048.html

My research activities focus on fluids engineering systems that are far from local thermodynamic equilibrium: high-speed (rarefied) aerodynamics, nano- and microfluidics, and rapid granular/gas flows. These are areas of emerging technological importance at the frontiers of engineering science.

The research challenge is that the physics of thermodynamically non-equilibrium flows differs from conventional fluid dynamics. The difference lies in the essential role played by the dynamics of the constituent fluid particles in determining the overall flow behaviour.

I am investigating new ways of modelling these non-equilibrium flows from both molecular and hydrodynamic viewpoints. In particular, developing theoretical insight into the underlying non-equilibrium physics, and numerical simulation tools ranging from compressible fluid codes running extended hydrodynamic models through to highly-parallel molecular dynamics and DSMC codes. All of these numerical tools are released open source in the OpenFOAM code.

I am also developing new kinds of hybrid software that combine particle and hydrodynamic solvers under one methodology.

While there is much work still to be done, the research results show the promise of these approaches in accurately capturing the behaviour of non-equilibrium flows in complex geometries in a range of applications.

I lead the MultiScale Flows Research Group in this work, and more info is available at multiscaleflows.mecheng.strath.ac.uk

Professional Activities

• Royal Society: Member, International Networks and Special Initiatives Committee, 2009-
• IMechE: Member, Thermofluids Group Committee, 2005-
• Royal Society of Edinburgh:
  • Member, Fellowship Sectional Committee on Engineering, 2006-09
  • JM Lessels Scholarship Committee Member, 2007-
• EPSRC: Member, Peer Review College, and various Panels member, 2003-
• Steering Group, EPSRC Collaborative Computational Project 12 (CCP12) on High Performance Computing in Engineering, 2008-
• Founder Member, European Council on AeroSpace Sciences (EUCASS), 2006-
• Co-Founder, Brinker Technology Ltd, Aberdeen, 2002-

• Associate Editor, Applied Mechanics Reviews (Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2009-
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Proceedings of the IMechE, Part C, 2007-
• Editorial Board Member, The Open Thermodynamics Journal, 2007-

Prizes and Awards

Senior Research Fellowship The Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust, 2010

Support Research Fellowship The Royal Society of Edinburgh / Scottish Government, 2009

Fellow The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2006

Fellow The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2006

Fellow The Institute of Physics, 2005

Finalist, Macrobert Award for Engineering Innovation The Royal Academy of Engineering, 2006

36th Bruce-Preller Prize Lectureship The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004

CRUCIBLE Award The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, NESTA, 2004

Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering The Leverhulme Trust, 2003

ExxonMobil Fellow, The Royal Academy of Engineering, 2001