PhD, P.Eng., FASME

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: steinman@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-7781
Office: MC333
Research Group: Biomedical Simulation Laboratory (BSL)

Research Area

Thermofluids

Research Interests

Hemodynamic factors in cardiovascular disease; integration of medical imaging and computational fluid dynamics (CFD); simulation of medical imaging; flow visualization; intersection of science and engineering with the arts and humanities.

Bio

Professor Steinman completed his doctoral studies in Computational Hemodynamics at the University of Toronto in 1993. From 1993-1996 he did postdoctoral work in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario, after which he became a Robarts Scientist and Assistant then Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics and Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. In 2005 he returned to the University of Toronto, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Steinman is recognized as a pioneer in the integration of medical imaging and computational modelling, and their use in the study of cardiovascular disease development, diagnosis and treatment. His current research focuses on improving rupture risk prediction for cerebral aneurysms; elucidating the nature of turbulence in blood flow; developing an interactive ultrasound training simulator; and developing ‘art-inspired’ flow visualization and sonification techniques. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and is the co-founder of the widely-used Vascular Modelling ToolKit. He was previously an Associate Editor for ASME’s Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, and is currently on the review boards of several international journals, as well as Associate Editor for BMES’s Cardiovascular Engineering & Technology. He was Chair of the Fluids Committee for ASME’s Bioengineering Division, and in 2012 was elected Fellow of the ASME. Professor Steinman has also been the recipient of New, Mid-Career, and Career Investigator salary awards from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.

PhD, P.Eng., FCSME

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: sullivan@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-3110
Office: MC225
Research Group: Turbulence Research Lab

Research Area

Thermofluids

Research Interests

Turbulent flows; analytical models based on organized structures in steady and nonsteady flows; turbulent flow in spark ignition engines with laser doppler velocimetry; fibre slurries in high turbulence environments; development of improved PIV and PTV algorithms.

Bio

Professor Pierre Sullivan’s research interests span flow phenomena, energy conservation and micro-scale electrohydrodynamics. His work has examined novel physical insight into the area of micro-scale jets and electrowetting on dielectric droplet motion. In aerodynamic control, was initiated with acoustic control leading to the current work installing synthetic jets directly onto the wing. This work is focused on low-speed (1-5 kW) wind turbines and micro-air vehicles. This work has included difficult near-wall measurements, flow visualization and careful analysis to describe the actions of the two control mechanisms.

Most interestingly, his group has found a dependence on Reynolds number that allowed the identification of fundamental frequencies important to the shear layer vortices. This improves control schemes for the devices. In addition to this, through a number of collaborations he has embarked on an experimental and numerical study of bileaflet mechanical heart valves. He has developed a unique well-validated particle image velocimetry dataset that is much larger than any previously available and has made this available as an open dataset. This work has recently been modeled with Large Eddy Simulation to fully characterize difficult to measure turbulent stresses and statistics.

Professor Sullivan was named fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) in 2012. He completed his BSME and MSME from Clarkson University in 1988 and 1991 respectively, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University in 1995.

PhD, P.Eng. FEIC, FCAE, FCI

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Email: murray.thomson@utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-573-1022
Office: MC335
Research Group: Thomson Lab

Research Area

Thermofluids

Research Interests

Alternative energy; hydrogen from methane pyrolysis; combustion experiments and modelling; biofuel flames and engines; air pollution formation and control; synthesis of nanomaterials.

Bio

Dr. Murray Thomson is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is also cross-appointed with the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry. He received a BEng from McGill University (1986) and PhD from University of California, Berkeley (1994).

Professor Thomson is the Director of the Thomson Lab. He is on the organizing committee of the biennial International Sooting Flame Workshop, and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Section of the Combustion Institute. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

Professor Thomson’s research is in the area of thermofluids with combustion/reactions with a focus on energy, biofuels, material synthesis, combustion modeling, and pollutant formation. He has supervised the thesis research of 99 graduate students and published 116 journal publications. He has several international collaborations (Singapore, France, USA) and industry collaborations. He is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE).