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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

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