Yankee Scientific: The Practice of Ingenuity
Vice-President and Technical Director
David Brownell co-founded Yankee Scientific with Dr. Eric Guyer in 1988 and now serves as the Technical Director for the Company.
David has been developing real world engineering solutions for clients for over 30 years. David’s core expertise is in thermal, fluid and mechanical systems design and analysis but he also brings a broad range of interdisciplinary know how to our engineering programs.
David has been the principal investigator for many of Yankee’s prototype development projects. David has developed prototypes for the first USA manufactured monoblock cast aluminum boiler, a gas fired water distillation appliance, a cyclone separation method for pharmaceutical manufacturing and a liquid fueled absorption refrigerator. Over the last few years David has managed our programs to develop scroll machine based power generation systems operating with both steam and refrigerants as the working fluid. David also developed the micro-combined heat and power prototype systems that eventually evolved into the Climate Energy freewatt® product.
David is proficient in the application of advanced modeling tools including SolidWorks based FEA and CFD programs and has developed models of supersonic nozzles, diffusers and ejectors. David has developed dozens of analytical models characterizing the operation of devices such as drip coffeemakers, airborne COIL laser effluent ejectors, the blowing of an electric fuse, the firing rate for pulse combustion systems and the transient heating capacity of indirect water heaters.
Mr. Brownell received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University (with high honors) and is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts.
In his spare time David enjoys amateur astrophotography and woodworking.