Professor P. E. Sullivan

BSME and MSME from Clarkson University in 1988 and 1991 respectively and a PhD from Queen's University in Mechanical Engineering in 1995. Registered as Professional Engineer in Ontario, 1998.

Research Activities Specializing in the analysis of experimentally measured turbulent flows, he is developing analytical models based on organized structures in steady and nonsteady flows. He is working with Prof. J. Wallace investigating turbulent flow in Spark Ignition engines with Laser Doppler Velocimetry. Collaborative experimental work is also being done with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) investigating fibre slurries in high turbulence environments with Prof. D.C.S. Kuhn.  Additional work is being performed with PIV in engine models. This work has included the development of improved PIV and PTV algorithms He is also the Associate Chair, High School Liaison (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) and an Associate Director in the Pulp and Paper Centre, University of Toronto. Fluid Sciences Visit the Robotics & Automation Laboratory and the Mechatronics Laboratory

Ph.D Students

• Eugene Suk
• Deokkyu Park - Co-supervised with Prof. J.S. Wallace
• Mohamed Boutazakhti - Co-supervised with Prof. M. Thomson

M.A.Sc. Students

• Homer Henry
• Serhiy Yaruseyvich - Co-supervised with Prof. J. G. Kawall - Ryerson University
• Praneeta Moti

Recent Graduates

• Daniel Fetter - September, 2000
• Wei Li - September, 2000
• Vincent Tang - December, 2001

Collaborations

• Engine Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Recent Papers

Journals

1. Li, W., Sullivan, P.E. and Davis, J. "Comparison of computational and experimental results in a water analog engine," Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Accepted January 2002.

2. Chai, M., Chai, A. and Sullivan, P. "The Identification of Retinoblastoma Tumors with Neural Networks," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 25(2001): 257-264

3. Ancimer, R., Sullivan, P. and Wallace, J. S. "The decomposition of the influence of turbulent flows on the natural gas combustion process using discrete wavelet transforms," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences 23(1-2) 2000, 41-53 .

4. Aberg, M., Sullivan, P. and Kuhn, D.C.S. "Influence of fibre suspensions on turbulence," Recent Research Developments in Fluid Dynamics 3(2000): 1-14.

5. Ancimer, R., Sullivan, P. and Wallace, J. "Decomposition of measured velocity fields within internal combustion engines using discrete wavelet transforms," Experiments in Fluids 23(2000): 237-8 .

6. M. Marxen, P. Sullivan, M. Loewen, B. Jähne, Comparison of Gaussian Particle Center Estimators and the Achievable Measurement Density for Particle Tracking Velocimetry, Experiments in Fluids, 29(2000) 145-153.

7. Sullivan, P., Ancimer, R. and Wallace, J. "Turbulence Averaging within Spark Ignition Engines." Experiments in Fluids.  27 (1999), 92-101.

Conferences

1. V.C. Tang, M. Buffle and P.E. Sullivan, "Comparison of  PIV and LES results for flow past a cubic obstacle," for consideration by the 5 th International Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, Mallorca, Spain, 16-18 September 2002.

2. Yaruseyvich, S., Kawall, J.G. and Sullivan, P. "Measurements in the wake of a micro airfoil" Accepted under reserve for the 23 rd International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) Congress, Toronto, ON. September 8-13, 2002.

3. Suk, E. and Sullivan, P.E. "Stereoscopic PIV Measurements   of  a Cyclic Flow" accepted by the 2002 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 14-18, 2002, Montreal, Quebec.

4. Boutazakhti, M., Yimer, I., Thomson, M. and Sullivan, P.E. "The Effect of Jet Mixing on the Combustion Efficiency of a Hot Fuel-Rich Cross-Flow" accepted by the 2002 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 14-18, 2002, Montreal, Quebec.

5. Yarusevych, S., Sullivan, P. and Kawall, J.G. "Cross-wire measurements on an Airfoil Operating at Low Reynolds Number" accepted by the 2002 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 14-18, 2002, Montreal, Quebec

6. Henry, H., Sullivan, P. and Kuhn, D.C.S. "Influence of mean shear on fibre flocs" 2001 TAPPI Joint Engineering Conference, San Antonio, TX. 15-20 Sept. 2001 (Session 11-5).

7. Li, W. and Sullivan, P. "Numerical Investigation of Piston Speed in a Water Analog Engine on Transition to Turbulence" for consideration by the SAE Fall International Fuels and Lubricants Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2001. 01-FL-387 and in collection SAE SP-1648.

8. D.C.S. Kuhn and P. Sullivan " Analysis and measurement of the flocculation intensity of flowing pulp suspensions." TAPPI Papermakers Conference, March 11-14, 2001, Cincinnati, OH, USA. (15 pp.)

9. E. Suk and P. Sullivan "PIV measurements within an Optical Engine." FLUCOME 2000. Sherbrooke, QC, August 13-17, 2000.

10. D. Fetter and P. Sullivan "PIV/PTV Measurements within a water analog engine," 10 th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-13, 2000.

Interested in a copy of these papers?

Interested in a graduate program in these areas?

Please contact me: sullivan@mie.utoronto.ca

Revised: 16 January 2002