Kyle Daun
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Kyle Daun is a Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo. His main research interests are heat conduction from aerosolized nanoparticles, laser-based combustion tomography, heat treatment in materials processing, and optimal design of industrial combustion devices. Professor Daun’s research group studies inverse problems that arise in combustion and heat transfer, including laser-based nanoparticle metrology, optical tomography, and design optimization of combustion devices and industrial furnaces. From 2004 to 2007, Professor Daun was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and then a research officer at the Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology at the National Research Council Canada (NRC-ICPET) in Ottawa. As a research officer, he investigated radiation heat transfer in solid oxide fuel cells with Dr. Steven Beale, and then helped develop and improve combustion diagnostics (line-of-sight-attenuation, laser-induced incandescence) with Dr. Greg Smallwood and Dr. Fengshan Liu. Amongst other accomplishments, he was one of the first to experimentally characterize the gas-surface scattering physics underlying thermal accommodation in LII, which he later validated through molecular dynamics simulations.
Research Interest
Radiation Heat Transfer Combustion Diagnostics Nanoparticle Metrology
Publications
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Sipkens TA, Singh NR, Daun KJ, Bizmark N, Ioannidis M. Examination of the thermal accommodation coefficient used in the sizing of iron nanoparticles by time-resolved laser-induced incandescence. Applied Physics B. 2015 Jun 1;119(4):561-75.
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Memarian F, Liu F, Thomson KA, Daun KJ, Snelling DR, Smallwood GJ. Effect of recondensation of sublimed species on nanoparticle temperature evolution in time-resolved laser-induced incandescence. Applied Physics B. 2015 Jun 1;119(4):607-20.
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Jhajj KS, Slezak SR, Daun KJ. Inferring the specific heat of an ultra high strength steel during the heating stage of hot forming die quenching, through inverse analysis. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2015 May 25;83:98-107.
