Professor Tassos Karayiannis
Professor

Research area(s)

• Single-phase Heat Transfer
• Boiling and Condensation Heat transfer
• Enhancement Techniques in Heat Transfer
• Heat Transfer in micro-passages
• Heat Exchangers
• Thermal Systems, Refrigeration, Renewables - Geothermal

Grants

Project details

Current Postdoctoral Research Programmes 

• Boiling Flows in Small and Microchannels (BONSAI): From Fundamentals to Design, (Brunel, Imperial, Nottingham) EPSRC £1.5M, Brunel PI. 

• Multi-axis NanoECM machine for sub-micro scale component manufacture, Innovate UK Smart Grants, Co-I, Total £704,74, Brunel share £210,278

• Spray cooling high power dossipation applications (SANGRIA): From Fundamentals to Design, Brunel, Edinburgh, Imperial, EPSRC £1.7M, Brunel PI. 

Current Industrial Grants

•  Feasibility of Geothermal energy for district heating, BEIS, £67,000, Brunel PI.

Current PhD programmes

• Joseph Widgington, Flow boiling in microchannels, Funded by EPSRC DTP programme, 2021-preset.
• Mina Kerolos, Pool boiling on plain and enhanced surfaces, 2021-present.
• Paige Draper, Lifetime optimisation of multiple deep closed-loop geothermal wells, EPSRC Mobility Pilot PhD Studenship, 2023 -present.
• Buse Bekir,  Pool boiling of refrigerants, Funded by EPSRC DTP programme, 2024 -present