Biography
Dr. Sezer is an assistant professor of thermal and fluid sciences at Western Carolina
University in department of engineering and technology. Dr. Sezer received his B.Sc.
degree in physics engineering (2005) and M. Sc. in defence technologies (Material
Science) from Istanbul Technical University (2009), and he got his Ph.D. degree in
mechanical and aerospace engineering from West Virginia University (2014). His research
interest is in the field of computational fluid dynamics and its application in combustion,
heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, wild land fires, renewable energy technologies,
fire dynamics and electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices (Fuel cells
and Batteries). He has developed and refined 1D and 3D dynamic solvers for species
transport, heat transfer, electrochemical reactions (adsorption and desorption), impedance,
polarization and electrical potential for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and sodium
sulphur batteries (Na-S). He also has developed a novel model to predict the nickel
coarsening in high temperature SOFCs based on electro-migration. His current research
is related to computational modeling of liquid atomization, drag coefficient of complex
geometries, combustion, fire dynamics and heat transfer mechanisms of 3D direct laser
metal sintering.
Teaching Interests
Fluid dynamics, Heat transfer, Thermodynamics, Numerical methods, Computational fluid
dynamics, Engineering Mathematics, Introduction to fuel cell technologies, Electrochemical
systems
Research Interests
Computational fluid dynamics, Multi-Physics Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and
Batteries, Lattice Boltzmann Method, Oil spill cleaning, Wild land fires, Industrial
fires and explosions, Flow in the complex structures, Heat transfer in 3D direct laser
metal sintering, Cooling/heating, Fire dynamics and safety, Hydrocarbon fuel atomization,
NFPA 68 standards
