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David Smeulders is a Full Professor in the section Energy Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Chair of Engineering Thermodynamics for Energy Systems. His research interests include transport in porous media, gas dynamics, thermodynamics, acoustics and hydraulic fracturing. Tuition topics include transport in porous media, thermodynamics and gas dynamics and sustainable energy sources.
Research concentrates on two topics. The first is Microscale interface processes, where the system length scale is typically smaller than the length scale of the transport process over the considered interface. Applications are electrokinetic flows, micromixing, membrane technology, electronics cooling, condensation phenomena in (natural) gases, and hemodialysis. We also study fracture initiation and propagation in porous media and interfacial aspects of ionized porous media.
The second is Small-scale renewable energy systems, addressing the energy system as a whole rather than the individual process. Two renewable examples are hybrid PhotoVoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) systems and Heat Storage Systems. Also thermochemical treatment of biomass is investigated. Smallest scale physical processes are studied by coupling Molecular Dynamics analysis with a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo model.
Academic background
David Smeulders obtained his PhD in Physics from TU/e, with a thesis entitled “wave propagation in saturated and partially saturated porous media”. He also holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University. Before joining TU/e, he was Assistant and later Associate professor of Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics, Department of Civil Engineering and Technical Geosciences Delft University of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. (Grant Negev Desert Large Scale Facility (LSF) and at Le Mans, France (Grant Pays de la Loire.)
David speaks regularly at key international events. Recent appointments have included lectures at EPFL, Lausanne (2017), Conference on Technology Perspectives for Energy Storage, Prague (2015), the Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Barcelona (2015), 2nd International Conference on Continuous Media with Microstructure, Łagów (2015) and Petrochina, Beijing (2010). He is or has been a member of over a dozen scientific/advisory committees and MSc/PhD committees worldwide and is on the Editorial Board of Transport in Porous Media.
Affiliated with
Acoustical Society of America ASA
Society of Petroleum Engineers SPE
Society of Exploration Geophysicists SEG
Member of the board of project leaders of the Dutch research school JMBC
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers EAGE
Partners in (semi-)industry
Vice-president Technology, Dutch Petrophysical Society
Scientific Director, Geotechnology Laboratory, Delft University of Technology
Topconsortia for Knowledge and Innovation TKI Gas and TKIEnerGo
Program Council, Chemelot InSciTe
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Research Output
On the numerical simulation of crack interaction in hydraulic fracturing
Remij, E. W., Remmers, J. J. C., Huyghe, J. M. R. J. & Smeulders, D. M. J., 1 Feb 2018, In : Computational Geosciences. 22, 1, p. 423–437 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Diffusive transport of water in magnesium chloride dihydrate under various external conditions for long term heat storage: A ReaxFF-MD study
Pathak, A. D., Gaastra - Nedea, S. V., Zondag, H. A., Rindt, C. C. M. & Smeulders, D. M. J., Jul 2017, In : European Journal of Mechanics. B, Fluids. 64, p. 93–101 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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An investigation of the step-wise propagation of a mode-II fracture in a poroelastic medium
Remij, E. W., Remmers, J. J. C., Huyghe, J. M. & Smeulders, D. M. J., 1 Mar 2017, In : Mechanics Research Communications. 80, p. 10-15 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A DFT-based comparative equilibrium study of thermal dehydration and hydrolysis of CaCl2 hydrates and MgCl2 hydrates for seasonal heat storage
Pathak, A. D., Gaastra-Nedea, S. V., Zondag, H. A., Rindt, C. C. M. & Smeulders, D. M. J., 9 Mar 2016, In : Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18, 15, p. 10059-10069 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Reactive force field development for magnesium chloride hydrates and its application for seasonal heat storage
Pathak, A. D., Gaastra-Nedea, S. V., Duin, van, A. C. T., Zondag, H. A., Rindt, C. C. M. & Smeulders, D. M. J., 23 May 2016, In : Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18, 23, p. 15838 - 15847 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
Press / Media
Prof Talk | How can Eindhoven meet its climate targets?
10/10/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Offshore Energy 2019: It’s a wrap!
Gerard J. van Rooij & David M.J. Smeulders
8/10/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
-Eindhoven University of Technology: Climate systems in museums appear to be too strictly regulated; Thomas Arends and Rianne Luimes will obtain their doctorates at TU/e in September
Henk L. Schellen, Rianne A. Luimes, David M.J. Smeulders & Akke S.J. Suiker
11/09/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Prof Talk | Heating with surface water as an alternative to natural gas
19/12/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Food waste could store solar and wind energy
Camilo C.M. Rindt, David M.J. Smeulders & Silvia V. Gaastra-Nedea
15/09/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
Analysis of a variable geometry turbine with reduced vaneless space
Author: Willekens, T., 31 Oct 2012Supervisor: Smeulders, D. (Supervisor 1), Boot, M. (Supervisor 2) & Eichhorn, R. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
Biot- en Stoneley-golven in verschillende poreuze media
Author: Meulman, J., 31 Jul 1992Supervisor: van Dongen, M. (Supervisor 1) & Smeulders, D. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Characterization of boiling heat transfer for steady and transient conditions
Author: van Dam, V., 31 Aug 2016Supervisor: Smeulders, D. (Supervisor 1), Speetjens, M. (Supervisor 2) & van Gils, R. (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
Connate water production from the Groningen gas field
Author: Corstjens, T., 31 Aug 2015Supervisor: Smeulders, D. (Supervisor 1), Schrama, E. (External person) (External coach) & Veeken, K. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
Design and operation of a Tesla-type valve for pulsating heat pipes
Author: de Vries, S., 22 Mar 2016Supervisor: Frijns, A. (Supervisor 1), Florea, D. (Supervisor 2), Smeulders, D. (Supervisor 2) & van der Geld, C. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master