DAVID NEWPORT BEng PhD CEng MIEI MASME
Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical, Aeronautical & Biomedical Engineering

e: david.newport@ul.ie

t: +353-61-202849

Dr David Newport lectures in the Department of Mechanical Aeronautical & Biomedical Engineering and is a Management Committee Member of the Stokes Institute.  He graduated with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering 1st Class Honours in 1996 and was awarded his PhD in 2000 from the University of Limerick.  His PhD thesis was on “Optical Field Measurement of Enclosure Natural Convection” and examined by Dr. Peter Ireland from Oxford University, UK. 

Teaching:

Dr. Newport has lectured extensively on foundation and advanced engineering courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.  He currently teaches ME4111 Engineering Mechanics 1, CG5011 Principles of Chemical Engineering, CG5042 Chemical Engineering Design Methods 2, and has previously lectured Engineering Science and Aircraft Maintenance  in addition to thermal management courses for industry.

Research:

Dr. Newport’s research activities are currently centred on basic and applied thermofluid flows with an emphasis on Aircraft Thermal Management and Microfluidics. 

Aircraft Thermal Management

David’s aerospace research at Stokes is focussed on understanding the complex flows induced in aircraft structures by externally imposed boundary conditions, and developing reduced models and representative boundary condition definition for numerical models.  Particular capabilities have been developed for wing, fuel, pylon and crown compartments.  Dr. Newport has developed long term research collaboration with Airbus with directly funded projects and Graduate Student research through the Enterprise Partnership scheme.  David is leading UL’s involvement in the massive MAAXIMUS and CRESCENDO 7th Framework projects.

Microfluidics

David’s microfluidics research is concentrated on the development of local measurement techniques (interferometry and microPIV) and the design of specific targeted microfluidic devices. Current research involves strong European collaboration with long term links developed with INSA-Toulouse, Karlsruhe IT, European Commission’s JRC and the University of Bologna.  Collaborative research is also being undertaken with Prof. Gupta and Dr. Woulfe of the Cancer Support Services at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

Current Research Projects include:

GASMEMS (www.gasmems.eu)

Cell Interferometry

Hydrodynamic Focussing

MAAXIMUS (www.maaximus.eu)

CRESCENDO (www.crescendo-fp7.eu)

Airbus - IRCSET Enterprise Partnerships

Publications (2010 - to date):

Moore D., Newport D., Egan V., Lacarac V., 2011, Ventilation and internal structure effects on naturally induced flows in a static aircraft wing, accepted for publication in Applied Thermal Engineering.

Newport D., Forno C., Whelan M., 2010, “Digital Moiré Subtraction (DMS) Interferometry for Electronics Cooling Applications in Enclosures”, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 132 Issue 3, pp. 8-17.

Chiavaroli S., Newport D., Woulfe B., 2010, “An optical counting technique with vertical hydrodynamic focusing for biological cells” Biomicrofluidics, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 024110.

Cole R., Fowler E., McCarthy C.T., Newport D., Walsh M., 2011, “Group Peer Review of Engineering Lecturing” ICEE International Conference on Engineering Education, Aug 21-26, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Li Y., Barrot C., Baldas L., Colin S., Brandner J..J. and Newport, D. 2011, “Mass flow rate measurement in T-Shaped Microchannels in Slip Flow Regime”, accepted for pfresentation at the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2011 November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA, Paper IMECE2011-65812.

Stafford J., Grimes R., Newport D., 2011, “Development of Compact Thermal-Fluid Models at the Electronic Equipment Level” accepted for presentation at the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2011 November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA

Li Y.,  Barrot C., Baldas L., Colin S., and Newport D., 2011, “A Setup for Gas Mass Flow Rate Measurement in T - Shaped Micro Channel”, Proceedings of the 3rd GASMEMS Workshop - Bertinoro, June 9-11, 2011, GASMEMS, 11- 41.

Li Y., Brandner J., Hansjosten E., Anurjew E., Newport D., 2011, “Fabrication of Microchannels by Stereolithography for Optical Use”, ICNMM2011-58078, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Edmonton, Canada, June 19-22, 2011.

Butler C., Geron M., Newport D., 2010, “Experimental study of natural convection inside a differentially heated enclosure with internal heat generation”, EH00009, Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Vol 55, No 16, November 21-23, Long Beach, California, USA.

Geron M., Butler C., Newport D., 2010, “An experimental and numerical study to analyse mixed convection regime in a fuselage crown compartment”,  5th International Conference “Supply on the Wings”, AIRTEC2010, Nov 2-4, Frankfurt, Germany.

Joseph S., Gineste JM., Whelan M., Newport D., 2010, “A heterodyne Mach-Zehnder Interferometer employing static and dynamics phase demodulation techniques for live cell imaging”, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7554, presented at Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIV, San Francisco, CA, USA, 25th January.