Jason Stafford BEng PhD MASME MIEI
Research Fellow

e: jason.stafford@ul.ie

t: +353-61-234231

Dr. Jason Stafford is a postdoctoral researcher and member of the research staff at Stokes Institute. He is currently involved in the EU aeronautics programme CRESCENDO, which is focused on promoting a multi-partner and multi-discipline virtual design environment for the development of new aeronautical products using more cost and time efficient methods. As part of UL's role within this collaborative project, he is investigating modelling and simulation improvements that can be used to reduce CFD requirements in the design of electronic equipment. His main areas of interest include fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with particular emphasis on the combined thermal and energy management of electronics. These interests originated from his PhD research which involved fundamental experimental investigations characterising miniature convective cooling solutions suitable for integration within portable electronic applications. He has authored or co-authored 10 refereed publications in journal and conference proceedings.

Education: BEng in Mechanical Engineering (UL), and PhD (UL)

Research interests: Thermal/Energy management of electronics; Local heat transfer and velocity field measurement techniques; Reduced order modelling of multiscale fluid and heat transport phenomena.

Sample publications:

Stafford, J., Walsh, E., and Egan, V., 2010, “Local heat transfer performance and exit flow characteristics of a miniature axial fan”, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 552-560.

Stafford, J., Walsh, E., Egan, V., and Grimes, R., 2010, “Flat plate heat transfer with impinging axial fan flows”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, No. 25-26, pp. 5629-5638.

Stafford, J., Walsh, E., and Egan, V., 2010, “Fluid structures generated from a low Reynolds number miniature radial fan”, Journal of Visualization, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 275-276.

Walsh, E., Stafford, J., and Egan, V., 2010, “Influence of motor supports on cooling performance of small scale fans”, Electronics Cooling, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 14-17.

Stafford, J., Walsh, E., Egan, V., Walsh, P., and Muzychka, Y.S., 2009, “A novel approach to low profile heat sink design”, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 132, No. 9, pp. 091401.1-8.

Stafford, J., Walsh, E., and Egan, V., 2009, “Characterizing convective heat transfer using infrared thermography and the heated-thin-foil technique”, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 105401.1-11.

Egan, V., Stafford, J., Walsh, P. and Walsh, E., 2009, “An experimental study on the performance of miniature heat sinks for forced convection air cooling”, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 130, No. 7, pp. 071402.1-9.