RONAN GRIMES BEng PhD MIEI
Senior Research Fellow

e: ronan.grimes@ul.ie

t: +353-61-213435

Dr Ronan Grimes is a Senior Research Fellow and a member of the Management Committee of the Stokes Institute. He is also the coordinator of MACCSol, an EU FP7 project which is developing enhanced dry cooled condenser technology for concentrated solar power. He has over fourteen years’ experience of research in the fields of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in application areas including electronics thermal management, micro fluidics, fan aerodynamics, and energy management in systems ranging in sale from portable devices to power plants. He is the author of over sixty peer reviewed articles and five patent applications. He has had success in attracting funds from a range of national and international agencies, securing funding in excess of €6M. He has supervised four PhD students to completion and is currently supervising three PhD sutdents. He has collaborated with a host of industrial and academic partners including Nokia, Bell Labs, GE, Tyndall National Institute, Tufts University, and the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Education: BEng in Mechanical Engineering from UL, PhD in electronics thermal management from UL.

Researc interests: energy management, electronics thermal management, two phase flows, fan aerodynamics, heat exchanger design, micro-fluidics.

Sample publications:

Walsh, E., Grimes, R., Griffin, G., " Flow Distribution Measurements from an Air Cooled Condenser in a ~400MW Power Plant”, ” presented at the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 11-17, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Grimes, R., Walsh, E.J., & Walsh P.A., “Active Cooling of a Mobile Phone Handset”, Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 30, no. 16, pp. 2363-2369.

Kearney, D., Grimes, R., Punch, J., “An Experimental Investigation of the Flow Fields within Geometrically-Similar Miniature-Scale Centrifugal Pumps”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, October 2009 --  Volume 131,  Issue 10, 101101.

Quin, D., Grimes, R., “The Effect of Reynolds Number on Microaxial Flow Fan Performance”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 10, 2008.

Grimes, R., King, C., and Walsh, E., "Film Thickness for Two Phase Flow in a Microchannel," Advances and Applications in Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, pp. 59-70.

Gonzalez, A., Grimes, R., Walsh, E.J., Dalton, T., and M. Davies, 2007 “Interaction of quantitative PCR components with polymeric surfaces”, Biomed Microdevices, vol. 9, no. 2, pp.:261–266 April.

Walsh, E., Grimes, R., 2007, “Low Profile Fan and Heat Sink Thermal Management Solution for Portable Applications”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2007.03.010

Grimes R., Walsh E, Quin, D., and Davies, M., 2005 “The effect of Geometric Scaling on Aerodynamic Performance”, AIAA Journal, Vol.43, No. 11, November 2005.

Grimes, R. and Davies, M., “Optical Measurements of Electronic System Air Flow and Temperature Distribution”, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 6: pp. 617-626.

Grimes, R., Davies, M., Punch, J., Dalton, T., and Cole, R., "Modelling electronic cooling axial fan flows", ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, June, 2001.