Director
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Professor Gregory J Sheard
Greg Sheard is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of The Sheard Lab at Monash University, Australia. His 2004 PhD was awarded the Faculty and University prizes for the year's best thesis. His research has attracted over $2 million in nationally competitive grant funding and maintains access to major high-performance compute facilities. He has authored over 150 publications and patents, has supervised 15 PhD candidates to completion, and serves extensively on international scientific committees and in the peer reviewing of manuscripts and grants. His work has been featured in national science media and focuses on the simulation of fluid flows involving heat transfer, rotation and magnetohydrodynamics using high-order numerical solvers developed and maintained in-house.
Graduate students
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Ghani Khan, PhD candidate
Ghan's PhD research will explore rotating magneto-convection - the buoyancy-driven motion of fluids under magnetic fields in rotating systems. This research seeks to understand processes within Earth's interior.
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Derrick Gharapetian, PhD candidate
Derrick's PhD is exploring methods to enhance heat transfer in ducts via incorporation of nanofluids and combinations of physical and electrical vortex generators.
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Abdulaziz Almuhaysin, PhD candidate
Aziz's PhD is exploring natural convection within models of pipe-tube heat exchangers, with a focus on natural convection and the relation of heat transfer rates to the structure and stability of the flows generated therein.
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Furhan Khan, PhD candidate
Furhan's research is investigating natural convection, heat transport and flow stability within enclosures with application to liquid hydrogen storage vessels.
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Sreedham Adhikari, PhD candidate
Sreedham's research is investigating the MHD flow and routes to turbulence within an annulus driven by radial electric field gradients and the Lorentz force.
Completed graduate students and former staff
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Dr Henry Shen
PhD, "Natural Convection in Inclined Square Enclosures", completed 2025.
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Dr Sneha Murali
PhD, "Stability and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Hydrodynamic Channel Flows and Quasi-two-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Duct flows with Repeated Wedge-shaped Protrusions", completed 2022.
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Dr Peyman Mayeli
PhD, "Stability Analysis Of Horizontal Convection Under The Centrifugal Approximation", completed 2022.
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Dr Chris Camobreco
PhD, "Stability, Transition and Turbulence in Quasi-Two-Dimensional MHD Duct Flows", completed 2022
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Dr Sajjad Hossain
PhD, "On Horizontal Convection in Very Shallow Enclosures", completed 2022
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Dr Zhi Yuen Ng
PhD, "On The Characteristics And Stability Of The Wakes Of Cylinders With A Triangular Cross-Section", completed 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2019-2021
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Dr Tze Kih Tsai
PhD, "The Effect of Temperature Profile and Differential Rotation on Horizontal Convection", completed 2019
Research Associate: 2019-2021
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Dr Azan Sapardi
PhD, "Hydrodynamic And Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Around A 180-Degree Sharp Bend", completed 2018
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Dr Ahmad Hamid
PhD, "Vortex Evolution and Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Duct Flow," completed 2016
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Dr Michael Curtis
PhD, "A Novel Method for the Manipulation of Biological Cells using Fluid Flow and Realtime Control," completed 2016
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Dr Christopher J. Butler
PhD, "A Numerical Investigation of In Vivo Thrombotic Geometries Under Flow," completed 2015
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Dr Tony Vo
PhD, "The Flow Stability of Shear Layers in a Differentially Rotating Container," completed 2014
Research Associate: 2015-2018
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Mr Simon Higgins
Laboratory manager: 2012-2014
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Dr Chris Ellis
PhD, "A DNS and Transient Growth Analysis of the Effect of Aircraft Tail Configuration," completed 2013
Research assistant: 2013
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Dr Nicholas Boustead
PhD, "The Haemodynamics of Aneurysms: A Spectral Element Analysis of the Effect of Wall Stiffness," completed 2013
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Dr Wisam K. Hussam
PhD, "Dynamics and Heat Transfer Enhancement of MHD Flows Past a Circular Cylinder in a Duct At Hight Hartmann Number," completed 2012
Research associate: 2012-2016
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Dr Kris Ryan
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow: 2006
