News & highlights
Read about our discovery of a subcritical route to turbulence in quasi-2D shear flows, in our latest article published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Top Cited Article 2021-2022 Wiley, 22 Feb 2023
Our recent publications on the departure from the traditional Boussinesq approximation in buoyancy-driven flows have been recognised as Top Cited Articles in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.
Sneha Murali has been awarded the Best Student Presentation Award from the The 12th Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference, for her presentation on heat transfer enhancement in MHD duct flows.
PhD completion for Sneha Murali! The Sheard Lab, 24 Jun 2022
Congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr Sneha Murali. Sneha's thesis investigates the use of wall protuberances exciting instability and heat transfer in duct flows, vital in liquid-metal flows smoothed by magnetic fields.
Recent publications
Techno-economic analysis and optimization of hydrogen production from renewable hybrid energy systems: Shagaya renewable power plant-Kuwait.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 58, 56-68, 2024.
Subcritical transition to turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional shear flows.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 963, R3, 2023.
Natural convection heat transfer in a nanofluid filled L-shaped enclosure with time-periodic temperature boundary and magnetic field.
Alexandria Engineering Journal 69, 177-191, 2023.
Weakly nonlinear bifurcation behaviour at the onset of instability in horizontal convection using an advective buoyancy approximation.
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 149, 107134, 2023.
Stability of flow in a channel with repeated flow-facing wedge-shaped protrusions.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 941, A59, 2022.
Energy saving and performance analysis of air-cooled photovoltaic panels.
International Journal of Energy Research 46 (4), 4825-4834, 2022.
Joining our team
We are expanding our team and welcome outstanding graduates with an interest in fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics or convection and heat transfer to study towards a PhD. Applications must be made through Monash Graduate Research (how to apply?).