Professor Hussam Jouhara
Vice Dean - Research/Professor
Howell Building 110
- Email: hussam.jouhara@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267805
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering FREng
- Head of the Heat Pipe and Thermal Management Research Group
- Editor-in-Chief: Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
- Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Thermofluids
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
- New Book: Heat Pipes Theory, Design and Applications
- New Book: Biomedical and Clinical Cryogenics Theory, Current Technology Advances, and Future Perspectives
- New Book: Sustainable Energy Technology, Business Models, and Policies
- New Book: Waste Heat Recovery in Process Industries
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Summary
Having worked in academia and the industry, Hussam has unique expertise in working on applied heat exchangers and energy-related research activities with direct support from research councils and various UK and international industrial partners. He has extensive expertise in designing and manufacturing various types of heat exchangers, including heat pipes and heat pipe-based heat exchangers for low, medium and high temperature applications. His work in the field of heat pipe based heat exchangers resulted in novel designs for recouperators, steam generators & condensers and flat heat pipes. These have been implemented across various industries including, but not limited to: food, electronics thermal management and low to high industrial waste heat recovery and Energy from Waste. Over the last few years, he has successfully managed to achieve new designs for industrial waste heat recovery and many thermal systems that have enhanced the performance of various industrials processes in the UK, Europe and world-wide.
Throughout his academic and industrial career, he received over £15M research funding from various UK/EU based research councils (UKRI, EU H2020, Horizon Europe) and from British and European industrial partners. He is a published author of academic books with many filed patents in areas related to heat pipes engineering and manufacturing and Energy from Waste systems. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both Engineers Ireland (Ireland) and IMechE (UK). in 2024, Hussam was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Hussam is the founder and the Head of the Heat Pipe and Thermal Management Research Group in Brunel University London.
Major projects as a Principal Investigator in Brunel:
- Project Coordinator of: Geoflexheat.eu
- Project Partner: StreamStep
- Project Partner: Prim-Rock
- Project Technical Director of: Innovative WAter recoverY Solutions (iWAYS) - H2020
- Project Technical Coordinator of: Heat Pipe Technologies for Industrial Applications (ETEKINA) - H2020
- Climate and cultural based design and market valuable technology solutions for Plus Energy Houses. (CULTRAL-E) - H2020
- Innovative Polymer-Based Composite Systems for High-Efficient Energy Scavenging And Storage (InComEss) - H2020
- Design for Resource and Energy efficiency in cerAMic kilns (DREAM) - H2020
- STEP – Heat Pipe Design Challenge for Hot Plasma Cooling - UKAEA
- High-Power and High-Energy Battery Systems with Integrated Structural Thermal Management for Heavy-Duty Applications - Innovate UK
- Roadmap for Industry - Academia collaboration between Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Argos Cement Company, Brunel University London and Econotherm in heat recovery in large industrial systems - Royal Academy of Engineering
- Conceptual Feasibility of a Heat Pipe as a Structural and Thermal Member in an Automotive Battery Pack Design - Innovate UK
- IMproving Power bAttery Cooling Technologies (IMPACT) - Innovate UK
- Room Temperature Passive Heat Recovery with Heat Pipe - Innovate UK
- Controllable bidirectional heat recovery device - Knowledge Transfer Network
- Erva Mate Drying - Innovate UK
- Active refrigeration shelf with thermal storage - Innovate UK
EDUCATION
Ph. D. (Mechanical Engineering), 2004, University of Manchester, UK
NATIONAL HONOURS
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK): Chartered Member and Fellow (CEng, FIMechE)
- Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers - CIBSE (UK): Fellow (FCIBSE)
- Engineers Ireland: Chartered Engineer and Fellow (CEng, IntPE, FIEI)
TEACHING CREDENTIALS
- P. G. Cert. in Higher Education, 2010, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK.
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), 2017, UK
Newest selected publications
Huang, X., Xue, J., Luo, H., Xie, Y., Li, Y., Wang, Q., et al. (2026) 'Heat release performance of water-phase change material mixture under periodic heat sink condition'. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 254 (January 2026). pp. 1 - 22. ISSN: 0017-9310 Open Access Link
Gao, X., Liu, Z., Xie, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, X. and Jouhara, H. (2025) 'Optimizing rotational velocity for melting performance of heat storage tank containing metal foam in building heating system'. Applied Thermal Engineering, 280 (Part 2). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 1359-4311 Open Access Link
Shah, V., Patel, N., Prajapati, P. and Jouhara, H. (2025) 'Unlocking biogas potential: A comprehensive study on pretreatment techniques of organic substrate for enhanced anaerobic digestion'. Energy, 0 (in press, pre-proof). pp. 1 - 62. ISSN: 0360-5442 Open Access Link
Huang, X., Xie, Y., Li, Y., Luo, H., Xue, J., Yang, X. and et al. (2025) 'Multi-phase flow and heat transfer characteristics of composite heat storage materials during melting process: simulation and optimization'. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 253. pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 0017-9310 Open Access Link
Malinauskaite, J., Delpech, B. and Jouhara, H. (2025) 'The Water-Energy-Materials nexus in an industrial setting: legal and practical peripheries'. Energy Nexus, 0 (in press, pre-proof). pp. 1 - 54. ISSN: 2772-4271 Open Access Link