Jaafar Younes
EPFL Laboratoire d'ingénierie du confort intégré
EPFL ANTENNE FRIBOURG
Passage du Cardinal 13b
1700 Fribourg
Web site: Web site: https://ice.epfl.ch/
Fields of expertise
Thermal Sensation and Thermal Comfort
Urban Challenges and Mitigation Measures
Sustainability and Resilience of Built Environments
Education
PhD
Mechanical Engineering
American University of Beirut
2024
MS
Energy Studies
American University of Beirut
2021
BE
Mechanical Engineering
Phoenicia University
2019
Awards
Best Student/Postdoc Presentation Award : HTD K-8 Session (Heat Transfer Division-Theory & Fundamentals) at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, California, USA
Graduate Student Conference Award : AUB University Research Board (URB), Beirut, Lebanon
2021 : PhD Fellowship : American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon
Publications
Selected publications
| J Younes, M Chen, K Ghali, R Kosonen, AK Melikov, N Ghaddar |
A thermal sensation model for elderly under steady and transient uniform conditions |
| J Younes, K Ghali, N Ghaddar |
Diurnal selective radiative cooling impact in mitigating urban heat island effect |
| J Younes, M Chen, K Ghali, R Kosonen, AK Melikov, AV Farahani, S Kilpeläinen, N Ghaddar |
Enhancing sustainability and resilience of elderly dwellings: Optimized refurbishing parameters and air conditioning operation |
| Jaafar Younes, Arsen Krikor Melikov, Nesreen Ghaddar |
Controlled airflow fluctuations for improved performance of mist cooling systems: Enhanced evaporation and thermal comfort |
| J Younes, M Chen, K Ghali, R Kosonen, AK Melikov, AV Farahani, S Kilpeläinen, N Ghaddar |
A novel personal comfort system for older adults in hot conditions: Design, modelling, and performance |