Dr Juan Felipe Torres

Research Fellow

Research Area:

Solar Thermal

PhD

felipe.torres@anu.edu.au

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Bio
Research interests
Research projects
Student projects
Publications

Education

2014: Ph.D., Tohoku University/Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Japan/France

2011: M.Eng., Tohoku University, Japan

2009: B.E., Tohoku University, Japan

Work Experience

2014-2016: Research Scientist, Toshiba Corporation, Japan

2013-2014: Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan

2010-2013: Research Assistant, Tohoku University, Japan

Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, Natural convection, Soret effect, Multicomponent diffusion, Phase-shifting interferometry, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Researcher

Multi-scale engineering of durable absorber coatings for solar thermal power

Current student projects

Supervisor

Potential student projects

Supervisor

High-flux accelerated aging of high-temperature absorber coatings for concentrating solar receivers

Journal Papers

J.F. Torres, D. Henry, A. Komiya and S. Maruyama, “Transition from multiplicity to singularity of steady natural convection in a tilted cubical enclosure”. Physical Review E, Vol. 92, 023031, American Physical Society (2015)
J.F. Torres, D. Henry, A. Komiya and S. Maruyama, “Bifurcation analysis of steady natural convection in a tilted cubical cavity with adiabatic sidewalls”. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 756, pp. 650-688, Cambridge University Press (2014)
J.F. Torres, D. Henry, A. Komiya, S. Maruyama and H. Ben Hadid, “Three-dimensional continuation study of convection in a tilted rectangular enclosure”. Physical Review E, Vol. 88, 043015, American Physical Society (2013)
J.F. Torres, A. Komiya, D. Henry and S. Maruyama, “Measurement of Soret and Fickian diffusion coefficients by orthogonal phase-shifting interferometry and its application to protein aqueous solutions”. Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 139, 074203, American Institute of Physics (2013)
J.F. Torres, A. Komiya, E. Shoji, J. Okajima and S. Maruyama, “Development of phase-shifting interferometry for measurement of isothermal diffusion coefficients in binary solutions”. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 50, pp. 1287-1296, ElSevier (2012)
J.F. Torres, A. Komiya, J. Okajima and S. Maruyama, “Measurement of the molecular mass dependence of the mass diffusion coefficient in protein aqueous solutions”. Defect and Diffusion Forum, Vols. 326-328, pp. 452-458, Trans Tech Publications (2012)
A. Komiya, J.F. Torres and S. Maruyama, “Measurement of mass diffusion coefficient of multi-component system in aqueous media by phase-shifting interferometer”. Defect and Diffusion Forum, Vols. 297-301, pp. 624-630, Trans Tech Publications (2010)

Intellectual Property (Patent Applications)

J.F. Torres, H. Kano, M. Shiratsuchi and S. Tatsuta, “Thermal laser stimulation apparatus, method of thermally stimulating, and program”. Japan: 2016-053114; USA (2016)
J.F. Torres and T. Jimbo, “Medical data processing apparatus, method, and program”. Japan: 2016-011108 (2016)
J.F. Torres and K. Matsuoka, “Apparatus and method for detecting faults in multilayer semiconductors”. Japan: 2015-182508; USA (2015)