Contact Olalekan Olayemi
Areas of expertise
- Renewable Energy
Background
Olalekan received his Bachelor and Master in Mechanical Engineering (Thermofluids Option) from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria and the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria respectively. In his master’s research work, he focused on the influence of equi-spaced fins on forced convective heat transfer in cylindrical annuli.
Olalekan joined the Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering in the year 2013 as a young lecturer and has held various administrative positions some of which include Undergraduate Project Coordinator, Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme Coordinator, Final Year Students’ Level Advisor, Summer Coordinator, and Coordinator, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He has published articles in per-reviewed journals mainly in heat transfer and fluid flow.
Research opportunities
Computational Fluid
Dynamics
Heat Transfer
Aerodynamics
Current activities
Olalekan is currently conducting his PhD research work within Cranfield Centre for Aerodynamics, His PhD work is focused on applying passive air jet vortex generator to control flow separation on blades of large-scale industrial wind turbines. The approach for the investigation is based largely on numerical experimentation.
Clients
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund, Nigeria)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Obalalu AM, Asif Memon M, Olayemi OA, Olilima J & Fenta A (2023) Enhancing heat transfer in solar-powered ships: a study on hybrid nanofluids with carbon nanotubes and their application in parabolic trough solar collectors with electromagnetic controls, Scientific Reports, 13 Article No. 9476.
- Obalalu A, Olayemi O & Odetunde C (2023) Significance of thermophoresis and Brownian motion on a reactive Casson-Williamson nanofluid past a vertical moving cylinder, Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal, 15 (1) 75-91.
- Obalalu AM, Salawu SO, Asif Memon M, Olayemi OA, Ali MR, Sadat R, Odetunde CB, Ajala OA & Akindele AO (2023) Computational study of Cattaneo–Christov heat flux on cylindrical surfaces using CNT hybrid nanofluids: a solar-powered ship implementation, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 45 (May) Article No. 102959.
- Olayemi OA, Al-Farhany K, Obalalu AM, Ajide TF & Adebayo KR (2022) Magnetoconvection around an elliptic cylinder placed in a lid-driven square enclosure subjected to internal heat generation or absorption, Heat Transfer, 51 (6) 4950-4976.
- Olayemi OA, Obalalu AM, Odetunde CB & Ajala OA (2022) Heat transfer enhancement of magnetized nanofluid flow due to a stretchable rotating disk with variable thermophysical properties effects, European Physical Journal Plus, 137 (3) Article No. 393.
