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Dr. Nathan Quinlan

phone:    353 91 492726
fax:        353 91 563991
e-mail:    nathan.quinlannuigalway.ie

Principal Investigator, Biofluid Dynamics group, NCBES
Associate Director, Aerospace Research Centre

Research Interests

Biomedical fluid dynamics (pulmonary, cardiovascular and cellular applications)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics - mesh-free Lagrangian modelling of fluid dynamics (member of SPHERIC, an ERCOFTAC Special Interest Group on SPH)
Fluid dynamics of droplet formation
Needle-free intradermal and pulmonary devices
Doppler Global Velocimetry and Particle Image Velocimetry
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in high speed flows
Propeller and wing aerodynamics 

Teaching 

Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering (ME112)
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (ME322)
Energy Conversion (ME424)

Selected Publications

Bellofiore A, Quinlan NJ,High-Resolution Measurement of the Unsteady Velocity Field to Evaluate Blood Damage Induced by a Mechanical Heart Valve, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, doi:10.1007/s10439-011-0329-y, 2011.

Bellofiore A, Donohue EM, Quinlan NJ, Scale-up of an unsteady flow field for enhanced spatial and temporal resolution of PIV measurements: application to leaflet wake flow in a mechanical heart valve, Experiments in Fluids 51:161-176, doi:10.1007/s00348-010-1038-2, 2011.

Nestor R.M.,Basa M., Lastiwka M., Quinlan N.J., Extension of the finite volume particle method to viscous flow, Journal of Computational Physics, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2008.11.003, 2009.

Basa M., Quinlan N.J., Lastiwka M., Robustness and accuracy of SPH formulations for viscous flow, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, doi:10.1002/fld.1927, 2009.

Heraty K.B., Laffey J.G., Quinlan N.J., Fluid Dynamics of Gas Exchange in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation: In Vitro  Investigations in Idealized and Anatomically Realistic Airway Bifurcation Models, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 36:1856-1869,  doi:10.1007/s10439-008-9557-1, 2008.

Quinlan N.J., Dooley P.N., Models of flow-induced loading on blood cells in laminar and turbulent flow, with application to cardiovascular device flow, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 35(8):1347-1356, doi:10.1007/s10439-007-9308-8, 2007.

Quinlan N.J., Basa M., Lastiwka M., Truncation error in mesh-free particle methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 66(13):2064-2085, 2006. doi:10.1002/nme.1617 | preprint (© 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)

Lastiwka M., Quinlan N., Basa M., Adaptive particle distribution for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 47(10-11):1403-1409, 2005, DOI: 10.1002/fld.891

Kendall M.A.F., Quinlan N.J., Thorpe S.J., Ainsworth R.W., Bellhouse B.J, Measurements of the gas and particle flow within a converging-diverging nozzle for high speed powdered vaccine and drug delivery, Experiments in Fluids 37(1):128-136, 2004. doi:10.1007/s00348-004-0792-4

Riewaldt H, Lastiwka N, Quinlan N, McNamara K, Wang X, Andersen T, Shearer A, Wind on the Euro50 Enclosure, SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004

Miscellaneous downloads

Introduction to research in biomedical fluid dynamics: slides of a lecture given at the 2nd Dublin/Galway Bioengineering Symposium in the NCBES, April 2005.

The accuracy of SPH approximations: slides of a lecture given as part of a training course at the 4th SPHERIC Workshop at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, May 2009.

    

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