Dr Rohitha Weerasinghe

Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Rohitha Weerasinghe

Dr Rohitha Weerasinghe is a Senior Lecturer at University of Bedfordshire in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from Imperial College London where he read gas turbine combustion, he worked in academia as well as in the industry for over 20 years.

He has specific expertise in Energy, Mechanical Engineering and Automotive Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics and computational modelling with working experience in the building industry as an energy and sustainability specialist.

He worked as Head of Sustainability at MWL, Senior Lecturer at UWE and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs at GCET Oman before joining Bedfordshire.

With a wide portfolio of teaching experience at different levels ranging from diploma to postgraduate levels in Mechanical Engineering and Energy, he has an active portfolio of research in energy, thermofluids, powertrains and sustainability.

Qualifications

PhD 2000 Imperial College London
DIC 2000 Imperial College London
BSc Eng. Hons 1994 University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
PGCE in HE 2014 UWE Bristol

Teaching Areas

Thermofluids
Mechanical Engineering
Automotive Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Energy and Sustainability

Research Interests

Thermofluids, Energy and Powertrain applications.
Combustion and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Low carbon vehicle technologies, positive energy buildings.
NetZero Apllications.

Industrial Certifications and Professional Membership

Fellow of IMechE 2019
Chartered Engineer 2010
Senior Fellow HEA 2020

PhD Supervision

'Low carbon powertrain application for a boat'. Current PhD student.

Accepting PhD candidates who wish to pursue research broadly in energy, thermofluids and combustion, CFD and numerical simulations, low carbon powertrains. NetZero, building energy and related areas.

Dr Rohitha Weerasinghe CV [PDF]

Examination of Research Degrees

PhD: A Study of Advanced RTO (Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer) Technology by Optimised Combustor Integration and Carbon-Free Fuel for Non-Carbon, Jingyin Liu, University of Bedfordshire, 2023
PhD: Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Community Stakeholder Satisfaction within the Nigeria Construction Project Industry, Chichi Okafor, University of Bedfordshire, 2022

External Activities

Course co-ordinator SLIIT Academy, Sri Lanka.
Editorial Reviewer – ‘Sustainability’ Journal
ICAEER conference committee –Co-Chair Publication reviewer

Conference Organisation

Co-chair, 7^th International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environment Research (ICAEER 2022), Shanghai, China
Co-chair, 6^th International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environment Research (ICAEER 2021), Shanghai, China
Co-chair, 2nd International Symposium on Architecture Research Frontiers and Ecological Environment (ARFEE 2019)
Co-chair, 5^th International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environment Research (ICAEER 2019), Shanghai, China
Co-chair, 4^th International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environment Research (ICAEER 2018), Guilin, China

Notable Publications

Chen, Hao, Chenxi Wang, Xiang Li, Yongzhi Li, Miao Zhang, Zhijun Peng, Yiqiang Pei, Zhihao Ma, Xuewen Zhang, Peiyong Ni, Rohitha Weerasinghe, Raouf Mobasheri, Quantitative Analysis of Water Injection Mass and Timing Effects on Oxy-Fuel Combustion Characteristics in a GDI Engine Fuelled with E10, Sustainability 15, no. 13: 10290. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310290, June 2023 (co-author)
1Xiang Li, Xuewen Zhang, Peiyong Ni, Rohitha Weerasinghe, Peiyong Ni, Zhijun Peng,, Insights into the spray impingement process from a gasoline direct injection fuel system fuelled with gasoline and ethanol, Journal of the Energy Institute2023, 101331, ISSN1743-9671, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1743967123001605), June 2023 (co-author)
Rohitha Weerasinghe, Thomas Hughes, Numerical and experimental investigation of thermoelectric cooling in down-hole measuring tools, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 137, 5 June 2018, pp 504-512 (principal author) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431117305045
Rohitha Weerasinghe, Sandra Hounsham, Small Engines as Bottoming Cycle Steam Expanders for Internal Combustion Engines, Journal of Combustion 2017 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jc/2017/1742138/ (principal author)
Rohitha Weerasinghe, Thomas Hughes, Numerical and experimental investigation of thermoelectric cooling in down-hole measuring tools; A Case study, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering Volume 10, September 2017, Pages 44–53 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2017.02.002 (principal author)
Weerasinghe, R. (2017) Thermoelectric cooling in downhole measuring tools. In: Achour, B. and Wu, Q., eds. (2017) Advances in Energy and Environment Research. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781138626829 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31606 (principal author)
WMSR Weerasinghe, RK Stobart, and SM Hounsham Thermal Efficiency Improvement in High Output Diesel Engines - A Comparison of a Rankine Cycle with Turbo-compounding, Applied Thermal Engineering Volume 30, Issues 14–15, October 2010, Pages 2253-2256 2010 (principal author)
Rohitha Weerasinghe, W.P. Jones, Application of Lagrangian Probability Density Function Approach to a Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flame, Journal of Turbulence, April 2010 Volume 11: N9 (principal author)