ComFORT Lab
Meet the People
Welcome to our website! We are a group led by assistant professor Jingru Benner at Western New England University. We are interested in a wide variety of problems in fluid and heat transfer.
Dr. Jingru Benner , Assistant Professor @ WNE
(Infrared Image of Dr Benner Holding a Cup of Hot Tea)
Current Lab Members:
Rebecca Shannon Brandon Torres Austen Metsack Jarrod Coletta
Previous Lab Members:
Eric Shilyuk
Dan Paradiso
Karl Herman
Tom Graf
Jackie Chak
Anthony DeVita
Thomas Longo
Iestyn Norton
Amanda Schoen
John Thomas
Research Interest:
We work on a wide variety of fundamental and applied problems in thermal and fluid transport processes, including but not limited to:
- Electronics Cooling
- Multiphase Flow
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Machine Learning and Its Application in Thermal/Fluid Field
Below are some ongoing and previous projects from Dr. Benner's group. For a list of our publications, please click here
If you are an undergrad at WNE and interested in working together on a project in a related area, or chatting about research, please stop by Dr. Benner's office S213B or send her an email!
Current Projects
Teaching
- ENGR 103 Introduction to Engineering (F2016, F2017, F2018, F2019)
- ENGR 110 Data Acquisition and Processing (S2016, S2017, S2019)
- ME 202 Statics (Summer 2017)
- ME 304 Thermodynamics II (S2017)
- ME 417 Heat Transfer (F2017, F2018, F2019)
- ME 440/437 Senior Projects (F2017-S2018, F2018-S2019, F2019-S2010)
- ME 651 Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Heat Transfer (S2018)