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Susie Wood
Combustion of mine ventilation air methane using porous burners
I'm working on a project to develop greenhouse gas mitigation technologies for underground coal mines and landfills. At the moment, mine ventilation air containing methane is just released into the air. We're developing an advanced combustion system capable of burning diluted fuels like methane, so that we can make use of a fuel that would otherwise be wasted.
Multi-Scale Finite Element Method in Fluid Flow and in Porous Media
The project develops new finite element in finite volume multiscale methods that link the pore to the watershed scales.. more...
Supervisor(s):
El-Zein, Abbas (Associate Professor)
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Masters/PHD
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seepage, contaminant transport, multiscale, finite element methods, finite volume methods, reactive diffusion advection
Multi-Scale Modeling of Fluid Flow in Porous Media
The project consists of creating multi-scale tools of flow through granular media and studying the way in which geo-mechanical problems are affected by phenomena at a micro scale.. more...
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El-Zein, Abbas (Associate Professor)
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Masters/PHD
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fluid particle interactions, hydromechanical coupling, granular filters, erosion
Developing a New Glass Window Panel for Security Against Projectile and Small Explosion Threats at Close Proximity
The project aims to develop a nanomaterials enhanced glass window panel for improved resistance against impact and blast loading. more...
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glass, nanomaterials, multiscale simulation, blast, meshless method
Coupled Seepage and Contaminant Transport Using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method
The project consists of developing Lattice-Boltzmann tools, validating them and using them to improve our understanding of processes of sorption, double-porosity flow, mechanical dispersion and molecular diffusion.. more...
Supervisor(s):
El-Zein, Abbas (Associate Professor)
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Masters/PHD
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seepage, contaminant transport, double porosity, dispersion, multiscale, Lattice-Boltzmann methods
Mixing in reservoir side-arms
This project is a collaborative effort involving researchers at The University of Sydney and James Cook University in North Queensland. more...
Supervisor(s):
Kirkpatrick, Michael (Dr), Armfield, Steven (Professor)
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Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
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mixing, natural convection, reservoir, water quality, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, large eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation, parallel computing
Purging of density stabilised saline river ponds by freshwater overflows
This project will combine field work, laboratory and computational components. The field and laboratory results will provide validation for the numerical model, which will in turn provide full details of the flow structure. In particular the effect of channel curvature on the freshing, mixing and purging rate will be examined. more...
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Kirkpatrick, Michael (Dr), Armfield, Steven (Professor)
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Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
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salinity, river management, water quality, density stabilized interface, interfacial mixing, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, large eddy simulation, parallel computing
Stability and transition of natural convection boundary layers
This ongoing project is developing analytic and semi-analytic methods and using direct numerical simulation to further develop our understanding of the fundamental behaviour of the transition.. more...
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Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
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stability, natural convection, boundary layer, transition, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, direct numerical simulation
Investigation and optimisation of displacement ventilation and cooling systems
In this project an unsteady Navier-Stokes solver that will allow the accurate simulation of the displacement cooling flow will be developed and coupled to an evolutionary optimization code.. more...
Supervisor(s):
Armfield, Steven (Professor), Kirkpatrick, Michael (Dr)
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Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
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mixing, natural convection, displacement air-conditioning, optimization, turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, large eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation, parallel computing
Effect of twinning on the hardening behaviour of magnesium alloys
The project aims to elucidate the competitive softening and hardening aspects of twinning during mechanical deformation of magnesium alloys.. more...
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twinning, magnesium, dislocations, plasticity, TEM, SEM, EBSD
Modelling the mechanical behaviour of hexagonal materials during complex loadings
The project aims to develop a comprehensive crystal plasticity model to predict stress-strain curves and texture evolution of hexagonal close-packed metals during complex loadings.. more...
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