David Salter
PhD Researcher / HPAL
Email: david.salter@tudublin.ie
Biography
David Salter is a mechanical engineer with over 12 years’ experience in academic and industrial environments. David is passionate about research and development as well as teaching, and his career to date reflects this. In 2011, he took a career break from his undergraduate degree in Technological University Dublin (TUD), before emigrating to Australia to pursue a mechanical engineering role in industry, where he spent the next 8 years. He returned to Ireland to complete his Level 8 undergraduate degree in 2020 before achieving a Level 9 masters qualification in 2021. His masters thesis involved lung breathing efficiency through CFD and was a collaboration with TREAVES GmbH in Germany. He is currently pursuing a PhD qualification part-time developing novel data centre server cooling approaches, with an anticipated graduation in 2026. Since graduating with his Level 9 degree, he has spent 3 years working as an Assistant Lecturer in TUD, lecturing mechanical engineering to NFQ level 7, 8 and 9 students as well as capstone project supervision. David has also worked in Trinity College Dublin as a researcher from 2022 to this day. He was initially a lead researcher on a HVAC project where he developed a bespoke heat recovery unit from TRL 3 to 6 with Magnitherm Ltd. He was then subsequently a lead researcher on a Research Ireland National Challenge Fund (2050 Challenge) prize winning project. David’s role has been pivotal in helping the project advance through each of the National Challenge fund phases, culminating in the Prize Phase which included €1.25M in research funding. His key contributions include formulating core design prototypes as well as overseeing key operational aspects such as procurement, training and the coordination of research activities. David’s publications span many areas including novel data centre server cooling methods, electric vehicle battery thermal management as well as HVAC systems and he has presented at various international conferences such as Eurotherm, Therminic and ITherm.
Research Interests
- Battery Thermal Management
- HVAC Systems
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Novel Data Centre Cooling Approaches
Selected Publications
- Salter, D. W., Oude Essink, E. H., O’Brien, G., Persoons, T., & Alimohammadi, S. (2024, September). Thermal Performance Comparison of an Adjustable Air Amplifier with Rotary Fans. In 2024 30th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
- Salter, D. W., Bachelier, G., Kumavat, P. S., Trimble, D., & O’Shaughnessy, S. M. (2024, May). An experimental investigation of forced convective liquid immersion cooling of a 12-cell li-ion battery module. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 2766, No. 1, p. 012026). IOP Publishing.
Honours & Awards
- BOC Gases Ireland Bursary Award 2021
- Research Ireland National Challenge Fund (2050 Challenge) Winner