News & highlights
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.
In our latest article published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the effect of adding wedge-shaped protrusions on a channel wall on the stability and behaviour of the flow is revealed.
Recent publications
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.
Stability of flow in a channel with repeated flow-facing wedge-shaped protrusions.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 941, A59, 2022.
Linear stability analysis of horizontal convection under a Gay-Lussac type approximation.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 182, 121929, 2022.
A simplified and efficient Gay-Lussac approach for non-Boussinesq treatment of natural convection problems.
Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals 80 (5-6), 115-135, 2021.
Stability of pulsatile quasi-two-dimensional duct flows under a transverse magnetic field.
Physical Review Fluids 6 (5), 053903, 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?).