Bart van Esch
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Bart van Esch is Associate Professor in the section Power&Flow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His area of expertise is largely in thermal and fluid engineering, and energy conversion. Specific topics of interest include hydraulic turbomachinery and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
Bart is also senior hydraulic engineer at Bosman Watermanagement, where he is responsible for the design and analysis of pumping stations. His ‘hand-on experience’ in industrial applications is being used in education as well as in research projects. Examples include projects on minimization of energy usage in pumping stations and the development of new pump designs to minimize damage to fish.
A close research co-operation exists with several universities in China, notably Jiangsu University In Zhenjiang where Bart was appointed part-time professor.
Innovations in hydraulic turbomachinery are often found at the interfaces where disciplines meet, e.g. between fluid mechanics, dynamics, biology, and optimized control”
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Bart van Esch received his MSc in Astronomy in 1990 from Leiden University and his Master of Technological Design in Computational Mechanics in 1992 from Twente University, where he also obtained his PhD in 1997. He was appointed assistant professor at TU/e in 1997, and part-time professor at Jiangsu University, China, in 2017.
Bart is affiliated to several scientific journals and conferences. He is an Advisory Board Member of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Engineering, and Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering (2012-2018). He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the 8th International Symposium on Pumping Machinery at AJK Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the 16th and 17th Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, member of the Scientific Committee of the IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems (since 2010), and member of the International Scientific and Program Committee of the Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow (since 2004).
Key Publications
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Desheng Zhang,Weidong Shi,B. P.M. van Esch,Lei Shi,Michel Dubuisson
Numerical and experimental investigation of tip leakage vortex trajectory and dynamics in an axial flow pump
Computers & Fluids (2015) -
B. P.M. van Esch,I. L.Y. Spierts
Validation of a model to predict fish passage mortality in pumping stations
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2014) -
B.P.M. Esch, van
Fish injury and mortality during passage through pumping stations
Journal of Fluids Engineering : Transactions of the ASME (2012) -
B.P.M. Esch, van
Performance and radial loading of a mixed-flow pump under non-uniform suction flow
Journal of Fluids Engineering : Transactions of the ASME (2009) -
G.P. Willems,B.P.M. Esch, van,J.J.H. Brouwers,M. Golombok
Creeping film model for condensed centrifugal separation processes
Chemical Engineering Science (2008)
Current Educational Activities
- Engineering design
- Thermal and fluid engineering
- Hydraulic turbomachines
- Honors program professional development
- Honors program professional development
- Honors program professional development
- Multidisciplinary CBL
- Circular electronics
- Data science and computational science for sustainable processes and materials
- Internet of things
- Biosensors the size of a fingertip
- Manipulate your wave
- Artificially structure your biosensor
- Engineering for people design challenge: makers valley
- Systems engineering for the energy transition
- Low precision computation in drone control
- Urban mobility startups for livable cities
- Artificial tutors
- Smart industry applications in the brainport campus
- Addressing real-world crime and security problems with data science
- A foldable solar cooker
- Heart disease, diagnosis and treatment
- Engineering art
- AI-assisted innovation in portable plasma technologyHow do we go with the flow?
- Inter-university sustainability challenge
- Portable plasmas for a better world
- D-light
- Creating a healthy workplace
- Health monitoring with molecular sensors
- Scenarios for a net zero TU campus
- Mechanical characterization of materials
- Mechanical characterization of materials
- Inter-university sustainability challenge
- Portable plasmas for a better world
- AI-assisted innovation in portable plasma technologyHow do we go with the flow?
- Health monitoring with molecular sensors
- Scenarios for a net zero TU campus
- D-light
- Creating a healthy workplace
- How do we go with the flow?
- Digital twins of medical devices
Ancillary Activities
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