Dorin Lelea

Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Facultatea de Mecanica, Timisoara, .

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Pagina web a instituţiei: http://www.mec.utt.ro/~tmtar
Pagina web personala: http://www.mec.upt.ro/~ldorin

Nascut(a) in: 1962

Interese: transfer de caldura, microcanale, schimbatoare de caldura, racirea componentelor electronice, transfer de caldura in microelectronica, convectie libera

Details:
CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Dorin Lelea
Marital status : Married, a daughter

Educational background:
• PhD. 1996 Politehnica University Timisoara, Faculty of Mechanical Engineeirng, Romania,
• BSc. 1989 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Yugoslavia;

Permanent position:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Thermodynamics and Thermal Machines
B-dul Mihai Viteazu nr. 1
300222 Timisoara, Romania
tel. +40 256 403666
Mob. Phone: +40 746 088172
e-mail:ldorin@mec.upt.ro
ldorin@hotmail.com

Employment record:
• 1989 - 1991 Project and maintenance engineer, The Power plants - Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 1994 - 1996 Research assistant at POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Thermodynamics & Thermal Machines
• 1996 – 2003 Assistant Professor at POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Thermodynamics & Thermal Machines
• 2003 – present Associate Professor at POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Thermodynamics & Thermal Machines

Professional skills:
Thermal engineering, Heat transfer, Microchannel heat transfer, Electronics cooling, Thermal equipment, Heating district systems, Heat exchangers, Steam and Gas Turbines, Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow, Natural convection, Environmental engineering, Air dispersion modeling.

Lectures teaching
Engineering Thermodynamics
Thermal Machines
Thermal installations and equipment
Advanced Numerical Methods in Thermal Engineering
Steam and Gas Turbines

Computational skills
Numerical modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow phenomena using Fortran;
CFD commercial codes:
Fluent,
Ansys,
Phoenics;
CAD software

Awards, Memberships and Professional experience:
• May 1994 The Award for Originality from the Romanian Society of the Engineering Thermodynamics Engineers;
• February 1999 Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology TUAT, Tokyo, Japan;
• December 2001, Visiting Professor, (National Reseearch Centre for Scientific Research) NCSR Demokritos , Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, Athens, Greece;
• February 2002 – January 2003, Post-doc fellow, The Tokyo University, Institute of Industrial Science, Prof. Shigefumi Nishio laboratory, Tokyo, Japan,
Research project: Study of Microchannel Heat Sinks for LSI Chip Cooling
• Reviewer for:
oApplied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier Science),
oInternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier Science),
oDesalination (Elsevier Science),
oWaste management (Elsevier Science),
oExperimental Heat and Mass Transfer (Elsevier Science),
oIndustrial and Engineering Chemistry Reasearch(ACS),
oHeat and Mass Transfer (Springer),
oJournal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ESCMSE),
oASME Journal of Electronic Packaging,
oJournal of Scientific & Industrial Research
oChemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly
oStrojarski Vjesnik
oASME 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels 2006 (Limerick, Ireland),
o6th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (HEFAT2008) University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa,
oASME Turbo Expo 2008 conference (Berlin, Germany),
•2007 – present, member in the Editorial Board of The Open Thermodynamics Journal, Bentham Science Publishers, (www.bentham.org/open/totherj/index.htm)
•2009-2011 Associate Editor for International Journal of Energy and Technology, (www.journal-enertech.eu/)
•2005 Member of the National Register of Experts (Romanian Ministry of Education),
•2005-present, Lectures in Thermal engineering and equipment for Romanian Agency for Energy conservation (ARCE),
•15+ years collaboration with industry on research, design and maintenance in the field of :
oThermal engineering
oEnvironmental engineering,
oThermal equipment
oElectronics cooling

Selected publications:

2010

1. Lelea D., Effects of inlet geometry on heat transfer and fluid flow of tangential micro-heat sink, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53 (2010) 3562–3569.

2. Lelea D., Effects of temperature dependent thermal conductivity on Nu number behavior in micro-tubes, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 37 (2010) 245–249.

3. Lelea D., Cioabla A., The viscous dissipation effect on heat transfer and fluid flow in micro-tubes, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 37 (2010) 1208–1214.

4. Lelea D., Nisulescu C., The micro-tube heat flow of water based Al2O3 nanofluid with viscous dissipation, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (2010) (accepted).

5. Lelea D., Cioabla A., The developing heat transfer and fluid flow in microchannel heat sink with viscous heating effect, Heat and Mass Transfer (accepted).

6. Ionel I., Mochizuki S., Comsa O., Lelea D., Three-dimensional numerical simulation of the reciprocating flow in a branching tube network, Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 46, Numbers 8-9, Pages 903-91, 2010.

7. Irimescu A., Lelea D., Thermodynamic analysis of gas turbine powered cogeneration systems, Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, Vol. 69, pp. 548-553, 2010.



2009

1. Lelea D., Cioabla A., Laza I., Mihon L., The Nu Number Behavior on Micro-tube Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow of Dielectric Fluid, The Open Thermodynamics Journal, Vol 3, pp.38-41 (4), 2009.

2. Lelea D., The heat transfer and fluid flow of a partially heated microchannel heat sink, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 36, Issue 8, October 2009, Pages 794-798.

3. Lelea D., The microtube heat sink with tangential impingement jet and variable fluid properties, Heat and Mass Transfer, July 2009 45(9) p. 1215 – 1222.



2002-2007

1. Lelea D., The conjugate heat transfer of a partially heated microchannels, Heat and Mass Transfer, 2007 44 (1) p. 33-41.

2. Lelea D., Some considerations on frictional losses evaluation of a water flow in microtubes, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2005 32(7) (2005) p. 964 - 973.

3. Lelea D., Nishio S., Takano K., The experimental research on microtube heat transfer and fluid flow of distilled water, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 47 (12-13) (2004) p. 2817 – 2830.

4. Lelea D., Numerical heat transfer fluid flow through channels with fins with varying cross-section in the streamwise direction, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 29, No 4, p. 443-452, 2002.

Publicații selectate:

* Dorin Lelea, Shigefumi Nishio, Kiyoshi Takano, The experimental research on microtube heat transfer and fluid flow, Elsevier Science, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 47, Issue 12-13, 2004.

* Dorin Lelea, Some Considerations on Frictional Losses Evaluation of a Water Flow in Microtubes, Elsevier Science, S. Nishio, K. Suzuki, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32, Issue 7, 2005.