Seamus O Shaughnessy
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I am a Mechanical Engineer with over 11 years research experience in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. I graduated with first class honours from the Dept. of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College Dublin in 2006 before pursuing a PhD, during which I studied a form of natural convection termed thermocapillary or Marangoni convection. I used a combination of analytical, numerical, experimental and computational techniques to validate my research findings, which have been published in several peer-reviewed journals. In 2010 I was appointed to the role of Research Fellow in TCD, and since then I have been working on a variety of research projects, many of which involve collaborations with industry partners. Currently I am working with a multinational partner to investigate novel methods of cooling biomedical grade polymers during machining processes. Since 2011, my main research focus has been on sustainable international development. Our research team is involved in a project in Malawi which aims to bring off-grid electricity to those in the developing world by using the waste heat produced during cooking. Termed the muPower TEG-Stove, this research is in its 6th year and growing, with 100 prototype electricity-producing cooking stoves undergoing field trials in 2016. In September 2016 I began my role as Ussher Assistant Professor in Energy & Sustainable International Development. I am currently working towards establishing new projects in this field in countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso and Zambia.
Research Interest
Applied thermodynamics and energy; BIOMASS ENERGY; Combined Heat and Power Systems; Computer aided engineering; Control Engineering; convective heat transfer; COOLING; Cooling of Manufacturing Processes; Design Engineering; Direct Energy Conversion; Electronic circuit design; Electronic Cooling Techniques; Electronics Cooling; Emission; Energy and Climate Change; Energy from biomass (see Forestry also); Energy from waste; Energy management system; Energy/Environmental Studies--Developing Coun; Environmental engineering; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; FLUID MECHANICS; Fluids and Heat Transfer; HEAT TRANSFER; Industrial Engineering; INFRARED, GENERAL; Integration of Renewable Energy Systems; International development; JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER; Manufacturing engineering; Renewable energies; Software Engineering; SOLAR ENERGY; Solar, Thermoelectric Conversion; Sustainable Development; Telecommunication Engineering; THERMAL ENERGY; Thermal Engineering; Thermoelectric Generators; THERMOELECTRIC-POWER; Thermoelectricity; TRANSIENT AND UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER; Two-phase Flow and Heat Transfer; WATER-IMMERSION COOLING
Publications
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O Shaughnessy, S.M., Robinson, A.J., Numerical Investigation of Marangoni Convection around a Bubble, ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Marrakech, Morocco, May 11-16, 2008, 2008
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O Shaughnessy, S.M., Robinson, A.J., Numerical Investigation of Bubble Induced Marangoni Convection: Some Aspects of Bubble Geometry, Microgravity Science and Technology, 20, (3-4), 2008, p319 - 325
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Seamus M. O Shaughnessy, Anthony J. Robinson, Numerical Investigation of Bubble Induced Marangoni Convection: Influence of Bubble Size and Shape, Third International Topical Team Workshop on Two-Phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Brussels, Belgium, September 10-12, 2008
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S. M. O Shaughnessy, A. J. Robinson, Numerical investigation of bubble-induced marangoni convection, Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci, 1161, 2009, p304 - 320
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O Shaughnessy, S.M., Robinson, A.J., The Influence of the Magnitude of Gravitational Acceleration on the Marangoni Convection about an Isolated Bubble under a Heated Wall, Heat Transfer Engineering, 30, (13), 2009, p1096 - 1107
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Seamus M O Shaughnessy, Anthony Robinson, The μPower Stove Generator, National Research Dissemination Conference, Lilongwe, Malawi, 16/05/12, 2012
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S.M. O Shaughnessy, A.J. Robinson, Heat Transfer near an isolated gas bubble: The Combined Influence of Thermocapillarity and Buoyancy, International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, 62, 2013, p422 - 434
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S.M. O Shaughnessy, M. Deasy, C. Kinsella, V. Doyle, A.J. Robinson, Small Scale Electricity Generation from a Portable Biomass Cookstove: Prototype Design and Preliminary Results, Applied Energy, 102, (0), 2013, p374 - 385
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C.E. Kinsella, S.M. O Shaughnessy, M.J. Deasy, M. Duffy, A.J. Robinson, Battery Charging Considerations in Small Scale Electricity Generation from a Thermoelectric Module, Applied Energy, 114, 2014, p80 - 90
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S. M. O Shaughnessy, M.J. Deasy, J.V. Doyle, A.J. Robinson , Field Trial Testing of an Electricity-Producing Portable Biomass Cooking Stove in Rural Malawi, Energy for Sustainable Development, 20, (1), 2014, p1 - 10
