Steven Beale PhD PEng

National Research Council Canada
1200 Montreal Road,
Canada
(613) 993-3487
steven.beale@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

 

 

 

 

Steven Beale is with the National Research Council of Canada where he does research in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Heat and Mass Transfer at the Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology. He is a Fellow of the IMechE and ASME, and currently serves as chair of the Executive Committee of the ASME Process Industries Division. He also formerly served as Executive Director of the CFD Society of Canada. As an Adjunct Professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University, he is in receipt of NSERC grants, and can fund graduate students at at either Masters or PhD level. Well-qualified candididates should write directly to Dr. Beale.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Application of CFD and numerical techniques to practical processes, equipment, and the environment.
• Solution of problems involving heat and mass transfer, single and multi-phase flow, chemically-reacting systems, and solid mechanics.
• Numerical schemes and algorithms, basic research involving the use of finite-volume-based methods.
• Engineering solutions relating to energy and the environment, fuel cells and sustainable alternative energy.

RECENT PROJECTS

• Development of multi-scale models of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in fuel cells using OpenFOAM.
• Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow and mass transfer in membrane assemblies with experimental validation using particle imaging velocimetry
• Heat transfer, voltage distribution and stress analysis in silicon microstructures.
• Granular multi-phase viscous-Mohr Coulomb flow in industrial chemical-process reactor vessels.
• Grid generation and adaptation by means of non-inverse schemes.
• Scientific visualization including numerical generation of 3D stream functions and the use of immersion techniques such as VR walls and caves.
• Heat exchanger analysis