Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Staff List
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Associate Professor Terry Berreen
Terry.Berreen@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3519
Office: Room G32, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Applied Mechanics and Dynamics, Numerical Modelling of Mechanisms, Engineering and the Law, Engineering Education (research publications by Terry Berreen). |
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Associate Professor Hugh Blackburn
Hugh.Blackburn@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1828
Office: Room 119, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Unsteady fluid dynamics, turbulent and transitional flows, aeronautics, aeroelasticity, physiological flows, high-order numerical methods and flow simulation, applications of linear systems theory including stability analysis in fluid dynamics (research publications by Hugh Blackburn).
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Dr Josie Carberry
Josie.Carberry@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 9646
Office: Room 136, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Biofluid mechanics, cardiovascular flows, platelet activation and adhesion, flow profiles and shearing in atherosclerosis, bluff body aerodynamics, flow induced vibrations, flow measurement techniques, particle image velocimetry. |
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Dr Bernard Chen
Bernard.Chen@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 5135
Office: Room 121, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Finite element modelling, bio-mechanical and bio-medical engineering, thermo-mechanical analysis of forming processes, microstructure-property relationships of light alloys and composites, computational mechanics and rail materials. (research publications by Bernard Chen | pdf, 14kb) |
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Dr Chao Chen
Chao.Chen@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3403
Office: Room 123A, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Medical robots for surgery and rehabilitation, mobile robots with advanced mobility, and reconfigurable mechatronic systems for complex tasks. (research
publications by Chao Chen) |
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Associate Professor Wing Kong Chiu
Wing.Kong.Chiu@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 5595
Office: Room G27A, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: In-situ structural health
monitoring, structural integrity monitoring
and assessment, fracture and fatigue assessment, mechanical
and materials testing (coupon, product and structural tests),
advanced composite structures, vibration analysis, finite
element analysis. (research
publications by Wing Kong Chiu) |
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Brian.Falzon@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1729
Office: Room 116, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: the development of robust finite-element algorithms for predicting the response of geometrically non-linear structures, fracture mechanics and damage in composites, structural optimisation using heuristic methods, the dynamic response of composite structures to impact loading, structural testing, the development of virtual testing environments and more recently, the design of medical implants and modelling biomechanical systems. (research publications by Brian Falzon)
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Associate Professor Bruce Field
Bruce.Field@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3518
Office: Room G24, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Education of Design, Creativty
and Innovation, Manufacturing Processes, Tolerancing, Engineering
Physics, Wool Harvesting Machinery (research
publications by Bruce Field) |
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Associate Professor James Friend
James.Friend@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3551
Office: Room 133, Building 31 Clayton
Research summary: Micromechatronics Active
materials, including piezoelectrics and artificial muscle
materials Microactuators and microsensors, piezoelectric Ultrasonics,
applied and device design Finite element analysis and design
Structural mechanics and vibrations Dynamics, rigid-body and
orbital mechanics. |
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Dr Jamil Ghojel
Jamil.Ghojel@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9902 0144
Office: Room G16, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Heat analysis of direct
injection diesel engines,Effect of oxygen enrichment of the
combustion air on the combustionprocess and performance of
diesel engine (research
publications by Jamil Ghojel) |
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Mr Peter Gregory
Peter.Gregory@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3709
Office: Room G31, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: (research
publications by Peter Gregory) |
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Dr Mir-Akbar Hessami
Akbar.Hessami@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3562
Office: Room G24A, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning,
Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy, Thermodynamics and Engineering
Education (research
publications by Mir-Akbar Hessami) |
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Associate Professor Jonathan Hinwood
Jon.Hinwood@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3517
Office: Room 113, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: Costal, Ocean and Estuarine
Engineering, Dynamics of Offshore Structures and Pipelines
in Waves and Currents, Mathematical Modelling of Estuaries
and Tidal Waters (research
publications by Jon Hinwood) |
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Associate Professor Damon R Honnery
Damon.Honnery@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1988
Office: Room G17, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Combustion (pollutant formation,
alternative and renewable fuels), Propulsion and transport
(rocket motors, gas turbines, diesel and spark ignition engines),
Fluid Mechanics (Jets and jet formation) (research
publications by Damon Honnery) |
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Professor Kerry Hourigan
Kerry.Hourigan@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 9624
Office: Room 129, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Aeroacoustics, Turbomachinery, Mineral Processing Fluid Dynamics,
Supersonic Jets (research
publications by Kerry Hourigan) |
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Associate Professor Raafat Ibrahim
Raafat.Ibrahim@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1982
Office: Room 109, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Fracture mechanics, welding,
welding defects, crackinitiation and propagation under different
creep and fatigue loading. (research
publications by Raafat Ibrahim) |
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Professor Rhys Jones
Rhys.Jones@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3809
Office: Room G13, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Experimental and Computational
Structural (solids) Mechanics. Finite element analysis, Aircraft
Structures, Plasticity, Fracture Mechanics, Composite Structures,
Bonded Structures, Repair Technology and Aging Structures.
(research
publications by Rhys Jones) |
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Dr Damian Kennedy
Damian.Kennedy@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9902 0171
Office: Room 114, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: The utilization and productivity of resources, and thedesign of productive systems. His main teaching interest over the past25 years has been in the area of Engineering Management. |
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Dr Shahin Khoddam
Shahin.Khoddam@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 8656
Office: Room 118, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Experimental-computational hot characterization of material behaviour/constitutive models using inverse method; Physical testing; hot torsion and compression tests, Equal Channel Angular
Extrusion/Pressing; Physical and computational simulation of hot metal forming processes, Thermo-mechanical processing of materials, CAE/CAD/CAM, Modeling of deployable mechanisms such as booms and tensegrity structures. |
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Dr Fiona McClure
Fiona.Mcclure@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3707
Office: Room 120, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Numerical modelling, Fluids, Tribology with a focus on lubrication flow and surface texture effects, Power cylinder system design in Internal Combustion Engines, Sustainable energy, Wind Turbines.
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Dr Adrian Neild
Adrian.Neild@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 4655
Office: Room 122, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Non-linear ultrasound including acoustic radiation forces and acoustic streaming, viscosity, microfluidic systems, micron scale particle and biological cell handling, air-coupled ultrasound, transducer design, non-destructive testing, and finite element analysis.
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Dr Tuck Wah NG
Tuck.Ng@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 4647
Office: Room 117, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Research interests: Optical engineering in medicine, biological sciences, mechanics, materials, manufacturing and industry (personal webpage) |
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Dr Prabhakar Ranganathan
Prabhakar.Ranganathan@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3480
Office: Room 123, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Coarse-grained models for hydrodynamic and other long-range interactions in suspensions of particles and polymer solutions; complex flows of microswimmer suspensions; dynamics of propulsion in motile microorganisms; dynamics of biological membranes; stochastic thermodynamics of small systems. (research publications by Prabhakar Ranganathan) |
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Dr Kris Ryan
Kris.Ryan@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1182
Office: Room 109, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: (N/A) |
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Dr Brian Sawford
Brian.Sawford@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3516
Office: Room 107, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: Fluid mechanics, Turbulence and turbulent mixing particularly with application to air pollution, Lagrangian theory and Lagrangian stochastic modelling of turbulent dispersion, mixing and chemistry. |
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Dr Greg Sheard
Greg.Sheard@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1182
Office: Room 109, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: Blood flow (specifically renal circulation); wake instabilities and transitions leading to turbulence behind bluff bodies; computational modeling of incompressible and compressible flows using high-order spectral-element and discontinuous Galerkin methods. |
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Professor John Sheridan
John.Sheridan@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 4913
Office: Room 124, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Bluff-Body Aerodynamics, Wake Stability and Control, Wake-Wave Interactions, Vehicle Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics of Bioreactors, Particle Image Velocimetry (research publications by John Sheridan) |
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Associate Professor Bijan Shirinzadeh
Bijan.Shirinzadeh@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 1565
Office: Room G27, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Robotics, Mechatronics, Automation, Sensing and Control, Contact and Quasistatic Motion Analysis, Computational Geometry, CAE/CAD/CAM/CAPP Manufacturing, Flexible Fixturing (research publications by Bijan Shirinzadeh) |
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Associate Professor Raman Singh
Raman.Singh@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3671
Office: Room G08, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Stress Corrosion Cracking of Steels and their Weldments, High Temperature Gaseous Corrosion of Steels and their Weldments, Failure Analysis of Metallic Industrial Components, Corrosion in the Context of Maintenance and Life Assessment of Industrial Infrastructure, Stress Corrosion Cracking in the Industrial Caustic and Chloride Environments, High Temperature Corrosion in the Industrial Environments, viz., Steam-generators/boilers of Thermal/Nuclear Power Petroleum/Petrochem Plants, Corrosion Resistance Coatings, Surface Modification by Advanced Processes, Microbiologically-induced Corrosion
of Steels and their Weldments, Corrosion during High Temperature Processing of Materials, Corrosion of Magnesium and Aluminium Alloys, Characterisation of Corrosion using Electron Optical Techniques (research publications by Raman Singh) |
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Professor Julio Soria
Julio.Soria@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3829
Office: Room 103, Building 33, Clayton
Research summary: Flow Stability and Control, Transition and Turbulence Research, Thermo-Fluid and Scalar Transport, Optical and Holographic Experimental Methods, Full Direct Simulation of Turbulent Flows (research
publications by Julio Soria) |
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Professor Mark Thompson
Head of Deparment
Mark.Thompson@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 9645
Office: Room 127, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods, Aeroacoustics, Turbomachinery, Simulation of Three-Dimensional Flows, Non-Newtonian Fluids (research publications by Mark Thompson) |
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Mr Paul Wellington
Paul.Wellington@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9902 0174
Office: Room 116, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: (NA) |
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Professor Quanshui Zheng
Quanshui.Zheng@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3023
Office: Room G14, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary:Nanomechanics, Heterogeneous materials and mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Theory of tensors and tensor functions.
Research Interests: (1) Nanomechanics, nano-devices, micro/nano- bionics; (2) mechanics of heterogeneous materials, damage mechanics, constitutive equations (composites, polymers, biomaterials, teeth, polycrystals, ceramics); (3) theory of representations for tensors and tensor functions, mechanics of anisotropic behavior, rational mechanics. |
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Dr Wenyi Yan
Wenyi.Yan@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph:9902 0113
Office: Room G06, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Finite Element Analysis, Fracture and Fatigue, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Contact Mechanics and Wear Study (research publications by Wenyi Yan) |
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Dr Leslie Yeo
Leslie.Yeo@eng.monash.edu.au
Ph: 9905 3834
Office: Room 132, Building 31, Clayton
Research summary: Interfacial flows driven by Marangoni, thermocapillary and electric stresses: Free surface electrokinetics (electrospraying, electrowetting and electrohydrodynamic induced surface vortices for micro-mixing & bioparticle concentration/separation) for biomicrofluidic
applications, Drop and bubble dynamics (break-up, coalescence and deformation), Phase inversion in liquid-liquid dispersions (research publications by Leslie Yeo) |
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