Dr. René van Hout
Associate Professor
Head of the Environmental Multi-Phase Flow Laboratory
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Haifa, Israel
rene@technion.ac.il
https://empfl.net.technion.ac.il
Short Biography
Dr. René van Hout is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and is the head of the Environmental Multi-Phase Flow Laboratory (EMPFL). He has been active in the field of heat transfer and fluid dynamics since 1990. Most of his early research has been in experimental multi-phase flows, starting with gas-liquid flows and more recently solid-fluid flows. Current research focuses on particles (solids, drops and bubbles) in turbulent flows, vortex induced vibrations of tethered structures in uniform flows, canopy flows as well as heat mass transfer by impinging (transient) jet flows. He is a leading expert on experimental techniques for the measurement of particle-turbulence interactions. Together with his graduate students and research assistants, techniques such as digital holography and (tomographic) – Particle Image Velocimetry are further developed and adapted for fluidparticle/structure interactions. Dr. René van Hout received his MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and in 2001 received his Ph.D. in the field of Multi-Phase Flows at the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Before joining the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion – IIT, Israel,in September 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He has published more than 50 refereed Scientific journal and conference papers.