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. He received his PhD from Monash University in 2004, for which he was awarded both the Faculty of Engineering Kenneth Hunt Medal and the Monash University Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for the year's best PhD thesis. Prior to his appointment in 2006 to a permanent academic position with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash, he held an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of an Australian Research Council funded collaboration between the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and Engineering. During this time he was awarded a Young Researcher Fellowship Award for Exemplary research in fluid mechanics, funding his travel and participation in the Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA, June 2005.
His research has featured on the Australian Ten Network's television program Scope in 2018, in Stories of Australian Science 2012, published by Science in Public, Australia's largest non-government science communication business, VLSCI Science Story #9, and Australian Life Scientist magazine.
Dr Sheard has secured more than $2.2-million in Nationally Competitive grant funding, and has secured continuous extensive time allocations on Australia's major high-performance computing facilities worth more than $100k per year. He is the author of over 150 research publications, editorials and patents. He has supervised 8 PhD candidates to completion, and has served as examiner for 9 PhD theses and over 150 manuscripts submitted to leading journals including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and the Journal of Fluids and Structures. He chaired the highly successful 9th Australasian Natural Convection Workshop held at Monash University, December 2015, and was an Organiser for the International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Minerals and Process Industries in 2006, 2009 and 2012. He has also chaired numerous keynote addresses, regular sessions, and advised on Technical Committees of major international conferences.
Dr Sheard built and maintains an advanced numerical code for the simulation of two- and three-dimensional incompressible fluid flows based on the spectral-element method. Spectral-element methods combine the flexibility of finite-element approaches towards discretising complex flow domains into a grid of discrete elements with the exceptional convergence properties of spectral methods. This code has since been extended with linear stability analysis and transient growth analysis capabilities, quasi-two-dimensional and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulation, and natural convection simulation capabilities.
Staff
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Dr Zhi Yuen Ng
Postdoctoral Fellow - Natural convection & heat transfer
Having completed his PhD on stability of bluff body wakes, Zhi joins our team as a postdoctoral fellow funded through an ARC Discovery Project, where he will drive the development of new numerical analysis capabilities and further our research in the field of natural convection and heat transfer.
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Dr Tze Kih Tsai
Research Associate
Dr Tsai joins our team as a Research Associate, having recently completed his PhD on the stability of planar and rotating horizontal convection. His current research interests include convection flows under rotation and exposure to surface shear.
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Dr Stephen Dubsky
ARC DECRA Fellow - Bioengineering
Steve earned his PhD from the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Monash University in 2013. His thesis, entitled "Four-dimensional Computed Tomographic X-ray Velocimetry for biological applications" received the Bill Melbourne Thesis Medal for most outstanding in the Department, and the Australian Synchrotron Stephen Wilkins Medal. Steve's research focuses on the development of advanced imaging and analysis methods for 4D motion measurement in biological samples. Steve has a strong research track record, with over 30 publications and conference attendances, and more than 300 citations. He is also inventor on 19 patent/patent applications. Steve's current project is looking to use modelling and simulation to calculate clinically relevant parameters from lung imaging data, such as airway resistance, tissue compliance and gas mixing indexes.
Graduate students
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Jamie Denier, PhD candidate
Jamie brings a background in physics and an interest in fusion to his PhD, which is investigating the flow of electrically conducting fluids in complex ductwork while under the influence of a magnetic field.
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Sneha Murali, PhD candidate
Sneha's research interests include heat transfer, thermal sicence, thermal energy storage, solar energy based devices and renewable energy. She joins our group after having obtained a Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, where she studied a phase change material storage system for solar thermal applications.
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Chris Camobreco, PhD candidate
Supervised in collaboration with Professor Alban Pothérat, Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Chris returns to our group as a PhD student after completing his Final Year Project in our lab in 2017. Chris's research interests are around magnetohydrodynamics, confined flows, natural convection, instability and heat transfer.
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Peyman Mayeli, PhD candidate
Peyman is conducting an investigation into the consequences of non-Boussinesq effects in horizontal convection flows.
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Sajjad Hossain, PhD candidate
Sajjad is undertaking PhD research into horizontal convection; natural convection flow in an enclosure driven by non-uniform buoyancy supplied over a horizontal boundary, with a focus on shallow enclosure behaviour.
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Oliver Cassells, PhD candidate
Supervised in collaboration with Professor Alban Pothérat, Coventry University
This project is investigating side-wall heat transfer into liquid-metal duct flows under a strong magnetic field, motivated by the operation of cooling blankets around the core of prototype magnetic confinement fusion reactors. High-resolution three-dimensional quasi-static MHD simulations will be compared with both quasi-two-dimensional simulations and theory.
Affiliates
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Dr Wisam K. Hussam
Lecturer - Australian College of Kuwait
Dr Wisam Hussam completed a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Baghdad University in 1992, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering/Power from al-Mustansiriya University, Iraq, in 2001. Following this, Wisam was employed as a Lecturer at the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. In 2009, Wisam was awarded a scholarship from the Federal Government of Iraq to study a PhD at Monash University. Wisam's PhD investigated heat transfer in electrically conducting fluids flowing through ducts under strong magnetic fields. Wisam completed his PhD in 2012, and was then appointed as a research associate in the Sheard Lab. In 2016 he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Australian College of Kuwait.
His research interests focuses on heat transfer enhancement, fluid-structure interaction, instability and transition in fluid flow, natural convection for Geophysical flow and Renewable energy.
Completed graduate students
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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
Subsequent employment: Research Associate, The Sheard Lab, Monash University
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Dr Tze Kih Tsai
PhD, "The Effect of Temperature Profile and Differential Rotation on Horizontal Convection", completed 2019
Subsequent employment: Researcher, The Sheard Lab, Monash University
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Dr Azan Sapardi
PhD, "Hydrodynamic And Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Around A 180-Degree Sharp Bend", completed 2018
Subsequent employment: Academic, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Selangor, Malaysia
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Dr Ahmad Hamid
PhD, "Vortex Evolution and Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Duct Flow," completed 2016
Subsequent employment: Academic, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia
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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
Subsequent employment: Product Development Lead, 4Dx Ltd
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Dr Christopher J. Butler
PhD, "A Numerical Investigation of In Vivo Thrombotic Geometries Under Flow," completed 2015
Subsequent employment: Manager-Cognative Analytics, IBM Research and Development
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Dr Tony Vo
PhD, "The Flow Stability of Shear Layers in a Differentially Rotating Container," completed 2014
Subsequent employment: Research Associate, The Sheard Lab, Monash University
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Dr Chris Ellis
PhD, "A DNS and Transient Growth Analysis of the Effect of Aircraft Tail Configuration," completed 2013
Subsequent employment: Defence Science and Technology Group
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Dr Nicholas Boustead
PhD, "The Haemodynamics of Aneurysms: A Spectral Element Analysis of the Effect of Wall Stiffness," completed 2013
Subsequent employment: AMOG Engineering Solutions
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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
Subsequent employment: Research Associate, The Sheard Lab, Monash University; Lecturer, Australian College of Kuwait
Former staff
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Dr Tony Vo
Research Associate: 2015-2018
Subsequent employment: Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
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Dr Wisam K. Hussam
Research associate: 2012-2016
Subsequent employment: Lecturer, Australian College of Kuwait