Juan Pablo Trelles is a professor at UMass Lowell.

Juan Pablo Trelles, Ph.D.

Professor

College
Francis College of Engineering
Department
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Phone
978-934-4973
Fax
978-934-3048
Office
Dandeneau Hall - 225
Email
Juan_Trelles@uml.edu
Links

Expertise

Sustainable Energy Engineering; Plasma Science & Engineering; Computational Transport Phenomena

Research Interests

Energy sustainability, direct use of electrical and solar energy in industrial processes, plasma physics and chemistry, non-equilibrium energy transport, numerical methods for multi-physics and multi-scale problems.

Education

  • Ph.D: Mechanical Engineering, (2007), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • MS: Energy Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, (2003), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
  • BS: Mechanical Engineering, (2001), Universidad Nacional de Ingenier锚a, Lima, Peru

Biosketch

Juan Pablo Trelles research focuses on devising concepts, methods, and devices for the direct use of solar energy and electrical energy in industrial processes. These processes range from the synthesis of high-value chemicals and materials to the modification of materials and surfaces. A fundamental aspect of Trelles鈥� research is the combination of experimental and computational approaches to achieve impactful understanding. His group鈥檚 work has been developing strategies for the solution of transport problems, which are found at the core of most energy systems are typically involve multi-scale and multi-physics. These methods have been applied to the analysis of diverse plasma flows, thermal systems, radiation transport, multi-phase problems, among others. Trelles joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2012. Before joining UMass Lowell, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Early Career Research Award (2017) - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science
  • CAREER Award (2015) - U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Logic Technology Development Division Award (2011) - Technology Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation

Selected Publications

  • J. P. Trelles, 鈥淪olar-Plasma Reactors for CO2 Conversion鈥�, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2022), Vol. 55, 103001. DOI: 0.1088/1361-6463/ac3035
  • V. Bhigamudre, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淚nvestigation of Flow Regimes in Arc Plasma - Gas Interactions Using a Two-Temperature Arc in Crossflow Model鈥�, Physics of Plasmas (2020), Vol. 27, 022305. DOI: 10.1063/1.5113772
  • R. Elahi, D. Nagassou, S. Mohsenian, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淓nhanced Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide in Thermodynamic Nonequilibrium: A Computational Study鈥�, Solar Energy (2020), Vol. 195, pp. 369-381. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.015
  • S. Mohsenian, D. Nagassou, R. Elahi, P. Yu, M. Nallar, H.-W. Wong, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淐arbon Dioxide Conversion by Solar-Enhanced Microwave Plasma: Effect of Specific Power and Argon/Nitrogen Carrier Gases鈥�, Journal of CO2 Utilization (2019) Vol. 34, 725-732. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2019.09.002
  • S. Mohsenian, D. Nagassou, S. Bhatta, R. Elahi, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淒esign and Characterization of a Solar-Enhanced Microwave Plasma Reactor for Atmospheric Pressure Carbon Dioxide Decomposition鈥�, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2019), Vol. 28, 065001. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/ab1c43
  • S. Bhatta, D. Nagassou, S. Mohsenian, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淧hoto-Thermochemical Decomposition of Carbon-Dioxide in a Direct Solar Receiver-Reactor鈥�, Solar Energy (2019), Vol. 178, 201-214. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2018.12.019
  • J. P. Trelles, 鈥淎dvances and Challenges Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas鈥�, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2018), Vol. 27, 093001. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aac9fa
  • J. P. Trelles, 鈥淔inite Element Methods for Arc Discharge Simulation鈥�, Plasma Processes and Polymers (2017), Vol. 14, No. 1-2, 1600092. DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201600092
  • J. P. Trelles, 鈥淧attern Formation and Self-Organization in Plasmas Interacting with Surfaces鈥�, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2016), Vol. 49, No. 39, 393002. DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/49/39/393002
  • S. M. Modir Khazeni, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淎lgebraic Approximation of Sub-Grid Scales for the Variational Multiscale Modeling of Transport Problems鈥�, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2016) Vol. 306, pp. 276-298. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2016.03.041
  • M. Gautier, V. Rohani, L. Fulcheri, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淚nfluence of Temperature and Pressure on Carbon Black Size Distribution during Allothermal Cracking of Methane鈥�, Aerosol Science and Technology (2016), Vol. 50, No. 1, 26-40. DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2015.1123214
  • R. O. Castro, J. P. Trelles, 鈥淪patial and Angular Finite Element Method for Radiative Transfer in Participating Media鈥�, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2015) Vol. 157, pp. 81-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2015.02.008
  • J. P. Trelles, S. M. Modir Khazeni,鈥淰ariational Multiscale Method for Nonequilibrium Plasma Flows鈥�, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2014) Vol. 282, pp. 87-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2014.09.001
  • J. P. Trelles, 鈥淓lectrode Patterns in Arc Discharge Simulations: Effect of Anode Cooling鈥�, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2014), Vol. 23, No. 5, 054002. DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/23/5/054002