David Johnson
Professor
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
David Johnson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research interests are in the development and application of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to flows, the measurement techniques for internal flows, the turbulent recirculation flows, jet and nozzle flows, wind energy and wind turbines, large scale PIV and measurement techniques, as well as the incompressible flow turbomachinery. Professor Johnson currently leads, and is also the founder of, the Wind Energy Research Group (WEG) at the university. The WEG works with wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroacoustics (noise). Professor Johnson and his team have several publications on incompressible flow turbomachinery, pump internal velocity measurements, fan design and performance measurement, and experimental and numerical studies of turbulent recirculating flows. Ever since working at the Ontario Hydro Research Division in the late 1980s, Professor Johnson has been involved in renewable energy research in Canada and Denmark. In addition, he has lectured and published widely on measurement techniques for wind turbine aerodynamics, the performance of turbine airfoils, as well as developed innovative aeroacoustic measurement techniques for wind turbines.
Research Interest
Fluid Mechanics Measurements Simulations
Publications
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McPhee AD, Johnson DA. Experimental heat transfer and flow analysis of a vented brake rotor. International journal of thermal sciences. 2008 Apr 1;47(4):458-67.
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Carty AJ, Taylor NJ, Johnson DK. Coupling of acetylenes held proximate to a metal: alkyne-alkyne interactions in cis-phosphinoacetylene complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1979 Aug;101(18):5422-4.
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Clark BN, Colbourn CJ, Johnson DS. Unit disk graphs. Discrete mathematics. 1990 Dec 14;86(1-3):165-77.
