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!