
Guohui Gan
Associate Professor, Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Group, Faculty of Engineering
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Biography
Guohui Gan is a member of the Buildings, Energy and Environment website Research Group.
Expertise Summary
Sustainable building technologies; Solar thermal and building-integrated photovoltaics; Passive heating, cooling and natural ventilation of buildings; HVAC and heat recovery systems; Ground coupled heat exchangers and ground source heat pumps; Modelling and measurement of air flow and pollutant dispersion in and around buildings and heat transfer through building structures; Assessment of indoor environmental quality; Development and application of CFD; Heat, moisture and fluid flow in porous media.
Teaching Summary
CFD for building engineering
MSc dissertation
MEng research dissertation
Research Summary
Development and integration of sustainable building technologies; Building-integrated photovoltaics; Photovoltaic thermal collector with thermal storage; Energy efficient heating and cooling; Ground… read more
Current Research
Development and integration of sustainable building technologies; Building-integrated photovoltaics; Photovoltaic thermal collector with thermal storage; Energy efficient heating and cooling; Ground source heat pumps; Earth-air heating and ventilation; Natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation of buildings; CFD modelling of buoyancy-driven fluid flow, heat and moisture transfer and fluid flow in porous media including soil and building structures, and conjugate heat transfer in fluid-solid fields.
Past Research
Application of CFD to the Built Environment: Room air movement, thermal comfort and air quality; Air flow and pressure loss in ventilation systems; Natural ventilation and ventilation heat recovery; Heat pipes; Passive heating/cooling; Evaporative cooling; Ejector cooling; Transparent structures; Building integrated photovoltaics.
Future Research
I welcome inquiries from potential PhD candidates with an outstanding academic record and an interest in:
- Sustainable building technologies
- Renewable energy systems
- HVAC
- CFD
- Evaluation of building performance
- Building energy conservation, harvesting and storage
- Ground source heat pumps
- Building-integrated photovoltaics
- Natural ventilation of buildings
- Energy-efficient heating and cooling of buildings
- Environment-responsive sustainable building design solutions
- Air quality control in naturally ventilated buildings
- Transparent green facades - Multiphase heat and fluid flow modelling
- Dynamic transparent insulation - Conjugate heat and fluid flow modelling
- Fluid flow and heat and moisture transfer in soil and building structures
- Interactions between atmosphere, soil and ground heat exchangers for ground source heat pumps and/or earth-air tunnel ventilation systems
- Comprehensive modelling of the indoor environmental quality and the urban heat island effect