News & highlights
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.
PhD completion for Peyman Mayeli! The Sheard Lab, 30 May 2022
Congratulations to Dr Peyman Mayeli on the conferral today of his PhD. Peyman's PhD investigated novel models for natural convection flows beyond the conventional Boussinesq approach.
Recent publications
Natural convection heat transfer in a nanofluid filled L-shaped enclosure with time-periodic temperature boundary and magnetic field.
Accepted for publication in Alexandria Engineering Journal.
Stability of flow in a channel with repeated flow-facing wedge-shaped protrusions.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 941, A59, 2022.
An entropy generation analysis of horizontal convection under the centrifugal buoyancy approximation.
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 133, 105923, 2022.
Energy saving and performance analysis of air-cooled photovoltaic panels.
International Journal of Energy Research 46 (4), 4825-4834, 2022.
Linear stability analysis of horizontal convection under a Gay-Lussac type approximation.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 182, 121929, 2022.
An efficient and simplified Gay-Lussac approach in secondary variables form for the non-Boussinesq simulation of free convection problems.
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 93 (11), 3264-3279, 2021.
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?).