Manosh Paul

Biography

Dr Manosh Paul (CEng, MIMechE, FHEA, BSc(H), MSc) is a Reader in Thermofluids at Mechanical Engineering and member of the Systems, Power & Energy (SPE) Research Division within the School of Engineering. He joined the University of Glasgow in August 2003 as a Lecturer, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013 and Reader in 2017. Prior to Glasgow, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate (PADR) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Imperial College London. He gained his PhD in Thermofluids in 2002 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. He has first class degrees, with distinctions and gold medals, in both MSc (Applied Mathematics) and BSc honours (Mathematics) obtained from the University of Dhaka in 1999 and 1997 respectively. His research has been recognised internationally with a number of invited talks, committee member and session chair in international conferences. Currently, he serves as a member of the Editorial Board of several international Journals. Moreover, he has been a consultant for several UK industries and external examiner for PhD in other UK and overseas Universities. He is currently Deputy Head of Mechanical Engineering and Convenor of School of Engineering Computing Committee.

Research Interest

My current research is mainly focused in the field of advanced thermal energy engineering with particular interest in the development of advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods for optimising the processes of combustion, pyrolysis and gasification of various sources of fuel energy e. g. coal (pulverised and in situ), syngas, oil, natural gas, biomass and waste. Currently, I lead the CombGEN (Combustion & Gasification Engineering, http://www.combgen.gla.ac.uk/) research networking project, funded by Carnegie & EPSRC with key industrial stakeholders and Scottish Universities. I am the academic PI of Innovate UK-Energy Catalyst funded project on Bio-GaTe – Advanced Biomass Gasification Technologies with Industry lead Computational Modelling Cambridge Ltd. I am also a CoI on the EPSRC SUPERGEN Bioenergy project on biomass gasification and lead modelling WP. In addition, I have extensive experience in the numerical simulations of turbulent flow, heat transfer and natural convection with particular interest in the application areas of solar energy, thermal storage, renewable heat and augmentation of heat transfer processes. Currently, I lead the Modelling & Simulation WP of the EPSRC SUPERGEN project on Solar Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric systems http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K022156/1. I am also a CoI on the EPSRC Thermal Energy challenge project called Therma-Pump and lead modelling work. Besides, I have broad experience in biomedical engineering with particular focus on the development of robust CFD based in-vitro methods and software for assisting patient treatments carried out by medical collaborators. Current areas of interest include spiral physiological blood flow, cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerotic arteries, cancer chemotherapy (http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_232465_en.html) and vein extravasations during contrast injection. Currently, I lead a research project funded by Medical Research Scotland (MRS) with Toshiba Ltd in collaboration with Medical School & NHS. I have strong research collaborations with colleagues across the University, other academic institutions, industries and NHS.