Chana Kam

Chana Kam is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the EE department. His research focuses on turbine heat transfer, cooling systems, gas turbines, internal combustion engine instrumentation, tip timing, tip clearance measurement, and high temperature instrumentation. Kam leads the Oxford Turbine Research Facility and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and several patents. He joined the University of Oxford in 2010 after a 22-year career at the MoD and QinetiQ, where he was Head of Instrumentation & Experimental Programmes and a QinetiQ Fellow. He has also held Visiting Fellow positions at Warwick and Surrey Universities and served as Scientific Director of the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation for five years.

Kam Chana is a researcher at Oxford University with expertise in aerodynamics, heat transfer, instrumentation, and medical and pharmaceutical applications. Their work focuses on experimental and numerical studies of heat transfer and aerodynamics in turbine stages, including the effects of hot-streaks, inlet swirl, and temperature nonuniformity. Chana has developed advanced instrumentation techniques, such as fiber-optic Fabry-Perot pressure sensors and miniature thin film heat flux gauges, for measuring unsteady gas temperatures and aerothermal phenomena. Their research also includes turbine efficiency measurement systems and the design of non-uniform inlet temperature generators for experimental facilities.