News & highlights
This research explains how horizontal heat transport depends on the distribution of buoyancy across the horizontal boundary driving the horizontal convection flow.
This study reveals the behaviour of horizontal convection in shallow enclosures, including the key result that height replaces length as the controlling length scale in these flows.
PhD success for Zhi Ng! The Sheard Lab, 29 Nov 2019
Congratulations to Dr Zhi Ng on the conferral of his PhD today. Zhi's PhD advanced our understanding of bluff body wakes and their stability.
Recent publications
A centrifugal buoyancy formulation for Boussinesq-type natural convection flows applied to the annulus cavity problem.
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 93 (3), 683-702, 2021.
Heat transfer enhancement in quasi-two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic duct flows using repeated flow-facing wedge shaped protrusions.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 171, 121066, 2021.
Natural convection and entropy generation in square and skew cavities due to large temperature differences: A Gay-Lussac-type vorticity stream-function approach.
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Published online), 2021.
Transition to turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional MHD flow driven by lateral walls.
Physical Review Fluids 6 (1), 013901, 2021.
Efficiency enhancement of photovoltaic panels using an optimised air cooled heat sink.
International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering 14 (7), 196-202, 2020.
Transitions and scaling in horizontal convection driven by different temperature profiles.
International Journal of Thermal Sciences 148, 106166, 2020.
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?).