Multiscale Thermal-Fluid Systems (RISE) at SDU investigates heat and fluid flow phenomena across the scales that shape modern engineering systems and everyday life. Our research ranges applications from heating and cooling technologies to agriculture, from additive manufacturing to biofluids, and from power generation to thermal energy storage. We work across a broad spectrum of length and time scales; from lab-scale experimentation to component-level design and optimization, and further to system-scale testing and validation. These activities are supported by physics-based modelling, data-driven prediction tools, multi-objective optimization, and techno-economic assessments.
RISE serves as the umbrella laboratory environment for experimental and computational research in heat transfer engineering, fluid mechanics, and engineering thermodynamics. The four laboratories are organized according to scale, measurement capability, and application area, ranging from fundamental lab-scale studies to component- and pilot-scale thermal-fluid systems. The four laboratories are: