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
Transition to turbulence in quasi-two-dimensional MHD flow driven by lateral walls.
Physical Review Fluids 6 (1), 013901, 2021.
Transitions and scaling in horizontal convection driven by different temperature profiles.
International Journal of Thermal Sciences 148, 106166, 2020.
A centrifugal buoyancy formulation for Boussinesq-type natural convection flows applied to the annulus cavity problem.
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Published online), 2020.
Efficiency enhancement of photovoltaic panels using an optimised air cooled heat sink.
International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering 14 (7), 196-202, 2020.
Subcritical route to turbulence via the Orr mechanism in a quasi-two-dimensional boundary layer.
Physical Review Fluids 5 (11), 113902, 2020.
Surface boundary conditions strongly affect the dynamics of rotating horizontal convection.
Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020, Paper 81, 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?).