Innovative Projects Realized

Inter-annual evaporation fluxes for four different land use types in the Greater Toronto Area

CFD simulation of a gas turbine combustor

The work to be conducted in this internship consists of the transient numerical modeling of a combustion device using commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. Validation of the various sub-models is required and once the final model is complete various design changes can be researched. The model will allow for variations in geometry, spray and

ignition characteristics and timing of the combustion device. The work will coincide with a current new engine project being carried out by the partner organization. The academic supervisors have a wealth of knowledge with combustion and fluid modeling and will serve to support the intern along with the partner organization in the completion of several tasks. In

completion the partner organization will have gained a useful combustion model and design insights while the intern will have gained valuable research experience. 

Uplink resource allocation in wireless backhaul networks

MR clinical decision-making application for Hamilton health sciences chronic pain centres

Twitter Data Processing

Given the plurality of voices available on the Internet, it is often difficult to estimate the level of expertise of the individuals that one encounters in cyber-space. On the other hand, it is also difficult for any individual expert to establish their credibility in this sea of screaming voices. Therefore, it is desirable to have an independent mechanism to prove a given person's claims to authenticity and legitimacy. One valuable source of information in this endeavour is the individual's interactions with content on the web, be it blogging, tweeting, etc. The specific goal of this project is to extract a collection of topics from the links posted to a given Twitter account to identify the user's interests and to use that collection to provide a mechanism for comparing the acuteness of the interest of different individuals in a given topic. This research will contribute to advancing the industry partner’s suite of tools and services to aid professionals in building online credibility. 

Isolation of endophytic bacteria from corn grown in high and low yielding sites of Southern Ontario

Correlation development for 2D aircraft icing codes to predict beads behavior on hydrophobic and superhydrophobic coatings during anti-icing simulation

Iron Removal In vivo Study (IRIS)

Materialized view performance at massive scale for data analytics workloads

Assessment and design of a waste heat recovery and energy conversion system for ArcelorMittal dofasco

Year of the gusher virtual exhibit

3D visualization pipeline and methodology for large-scale artifact collections management