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Dr Harry Suehrcke

Harry Suehrcke

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Dipl. Ing. (Hamburg) Ph.D (The University of Western Australia)

Office:

Off Campus – based in Perth, WA

Phone:

0413 386 908

Fax:

(08) 9316 0540

Email:

harry.suehrcke@jcu.edu.au

Research

  • Solar radiation on the earth’s surface

  • Solar energy systems (PV and Thermal)

  • Thermal radiation heat transfer

  • Simultaneous heat and mass transfer

  • Experimental methods in natural convection heat transfer

  • Numerical methods

Other Affiliations

  • Member, Engineers Australia (MIEAust, CPEng)

  • Member, Standards Australia CS-028 committee

Brief Biography

Following undergraduate study in Mechanical Engineering in Germany Harry Suehrcke completed a PhD degree at the University of Western Australia in 1988.After short employment as a research engineer Harry took up an academic position at James Cook University in 1989.In this capacity he taught undergraduate subject including thermofluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and energy conversion.Sabbatical leave was undertaken in 1992 to the KTH in Stockholm, Sweden and to the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1998. In 2002 Harry Suehrcke moved back to Perth where he became director of Sunspin – an engineering consulting company specializing in energy related consulting, testing and product development.

Selected Publications

Full list of publications

H. Suehrcke and P.G. McCormick, The frequency distribution of instantaneous

insolation values.Solar Energy, Vol. 40, pp. 413–422, 1988.

H. Suehrcke, On the relationship between duration of sunshine and solar radiation on the

earth's surface: Ängström's equation revisited.Solar Energy, Vol. 68, pp. 417-425, 2000.

G. D. McBain, H. Suehrcke and J. A. Harris, Evaporation from an open cylinder.International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 43, pp. 2117-2128, 2000.

H. Suehrcke,D. Däldehög, J. A. Harris and R.W. Lowe, Heat transfer across corrugated sheets and honeycomb transparent insulation, Solar Energy, Vol. 76, pp. 351-358, 2004.

D. W. Holmes, J. G. Loughran and H. Suehrcke, Constitutive model for large strain deformation of semicrystalline polymers, Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, pp. 281-313, 2007.

H. Suehrcke, E. L. Peterson and N. Selby, Effect of roof solar reflectance on the building heat gain in a hot climate, Energy and Buildings, Vol. 40, pp. 2224-2235, 2008.