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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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Dynamics of air entrapment in cooling circuits for lithographic exposure tools
1/01/21 → 30/04/27
Project: Research direct
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2F2S-CARBFRAC
Smeulders, D. M. J., Bergkamp, E. A. & Campagna, M. M.
1/01/14 → 31/12/21
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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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-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
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