Noam Lior
Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Honors and Awards: ASME Edward F. Obert Award - 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellow - 2004
Research Expertise: Energy | Fluid Mechanics
Noam's research interests are in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and Second-Law analysis, energy conversion, solar energy, combustion, flash evaporation and water desalination, destruction of hazardous wastes by photocatalysis and supercritical oxidation and heat treatment.
Education:
PhD Mechanical Engineering 1973 - University of California at Berkeley
MS Mechanical Engineering 1966 - Technion in Israel
BS Mechanical Engineering 1962 - Technion in Israel
Recent Publications 
- Mirrors in the sky: Status, sustainability, and some supporting materials experiments, Lior, N., Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013
- Use of low/mid-temperature solar heat for thermochemical upgrading of energy, part I: Application to a novel chemically-recuperated gas-turbine power generation (SOLRGT) system, Zhang, N. | Lior, N., Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2012
- Sustainable energy development: The present (2011) situation and possible paths to the future, Lior, N., Energy, 2012
- Use of low/mid-temperature solar heat for thermochemical upgrading of energy, Part II: A novel zero-emissions design (ZE-SOLRGT) of the solar chemically-recuperated gas-turbine power generation system (SOLRGT) guided by its exergy analysis, Zhang, N. | Lior, N. | Luo, C., Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2012
- Introduction to the World Energy Panel invited keynote papers from the 24th international conference on efficiency, cost, optimization, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems - ECOS 2011, held from 4 to 7 July 2011 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Lior, N., Energy, 2012