Academics
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Expertise and research interests:
-Aerodynamics
(flapping wing aerodynamic, Plasma aerodynamics, Active and passive flow
control, WIG aerodynamics)
-Renewable
energy production and environmental engineering (Water harvesting from
the atmosphere, Multidisciplinary Optimisation of micro wind turbines,
Wave and tide energy, Vortex heat generator)
-Aircraft design
and optimisation (Multidisciplinary optimisation of air vehicles,
Multidisciplinary optimisation of hypersonic flying vehicles, Aircraft
stability and control, UAV design, Solar and fuel-cell UAV, Aeroelasticity)
-Propulsion
(Pulse-jet engines, Bio-fuel jet engines, Fish tail propulsion system)
Dr
maziar Arjomandi’s personal webpage
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Dr Maziar Arjomandi
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Email: maziar.arjomandi@adelaide.edu.au
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Expertise and
research interests:
-Experimental and computational aeroacoustics; Aerodynamics and fluid dynamics;
-Hypersonic flow, propulsion and flight
mechanics; OpenFOAM; Rotorcraft;
-Aeroelasticity; Shock ignition
of alternative fuels;
-Automotive aeroacoustics;
Aeroacoustic shape optimisation; Morphing wing
technology;
-Wind turbine aerodynamic noise
Dr
Con Doolan’s personal webpage
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Dr Con Doolan
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Email: con.doolan@adelaide.edu.au
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Expertise and
research interests:
-Lift augmentation and flow control, including plasma
-Unsteady thrust generation using oscillating foils
and membranes
-Transverse, impinging, flapping and pulsed jets, and
vortex rings
-Aeroacoustics of surface
cavities
-Unsteady pipe flows
-Particle laden flows
-Fluid mixing and combustion devices
-bluff-body aerodynamics
A/Prof Richard Kelso’s
personal webpage
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A/Prof Richard Kelso
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Email: Richard.kelso@adelaide.edu.au
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Expertise and research interests:
-Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) (Simulation of plasma
instabilities, arcs and plasma thrusters, Numerical methods for MHD,
Plasma turbulence)
-Theoretical MHD
(MHD shock dynamics, analysis of plasma instabilities)
-Hypersonics (Scramjets, Shock and expansion tube
flows, Rarefied gas dynamics)
-Computational
Fluid Dynamics (Compressible flow simulations, Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Compact finite difference methods)
Dr Vincent
Wheatley’s personal webpage
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Dr Vincent Wheatley
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Email: vincent.wheatley@adelaide.edu.au
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Post Graduates
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PhD Thesis Title:
Autoignition Delay of Biodiesel (2006-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BS (Honours) Thesis Title:
Design and Manufacture of a Formula SAE race-car
(2004)
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Marcus Boyd
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Email: marcus.boyd@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Wing Tip Vortex Control using Dielectric Barrier
Discharge Plasma Actuators (2008-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
The Design, Development and Manufacture of a
Search and Rescue Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2004-2007)
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Ben Chartier
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Email: benjamin.chartier@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Cavity Flows: An investigation on
Three-Dimensional Fluid-Dynamics of a Narrow Cavity Exposed to Low Speed
Flows (expected completion end 2008)
MS thesis title:
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B.Eng. Mech. (Honours) Thesis
Title:
Navigation and Control of Prototype Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle
B.Sc. (Physics)
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Sarah Crook
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Email: sarah.crook@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Application of Dielectric Barrier Discharge
Plasma Flow Augmentation for Parasitic Drag Reduction (2008-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
The Design, Development and Manufacture of a
Search and Rescue Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (2004-2007)
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Brad Gibson
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Email: brad.gibson@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Effect
of Leading Edge Tubercles on Airfoil Performance (2006 -continuing) – Experimental and computational study into the effect of
modifications to the leading edge of an airfoil in the form of sinusoidal
protrusions of various heights and spacing. It has been shown that these
modifications have a positive influence on the lift characteristics of an
airfoil and the aim of the research is to study the effect of height and
spacing variations as well as how the position of maximum thickness will
influence the results.
MS thesis title:
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BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
Internal Flows Practical (2004) – Development of an undergraduate laboratory apparatus
including both design and construction phases. The purpose was to demonstrate
pump and impeller characteristics and to familiarize students with various
devices used in pipe networks.
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Kristy Hansen
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Email: kristy.hansen@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Investigation of High Frequency Comubstion Instabilities in LOx/H2 Rocket Engines
(2007-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
Development of a Hybrid Rocket (2005)
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Justin Hardi
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Email: justin.hardi@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Computational Aeroacoustic
Shape Optimisation for Aerofoil Trailing Edge
Noise (2008-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
Advanced Supercomputing for Aeroacoustics
(2003-2007)
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Richard Jones
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Email: richard.jones@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Optimal Control of Airfoil Performance and Noise
Using Morphing Wing Technology (2008-continuing)
MS thesis title:
Constrained
Motion Analysis of Rigid-Flexible Manipulator (2001-2003
BE (Honours) Thesis Title:
DSP Based PID Controller for Low Cost Motor (Design
and Implementation) (1995-1999)
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Kyaw Pe Win
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Email: kyaw.win@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Robust Scheduling Control Techniques for the
Active Suppression of Aeroelasticity
(2006-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BS (Honours) Thesis Title:
Design, Build and Control of a VTOL Model
Aircraft (2005)
Zebb’s
research webpage
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Zebb Prime
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Email: zebb.prime@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Trajectory optimisation
for very low thrust lunar mission BW-1 (2008-continuing)
MS thesis title:
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BS (Honours) Thesis Title:
Street Parking for Cars – A control system
for autonomous parallel parking (2005)
BMa&CompSc
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Rogan Shimmin
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Email: rogan.shimmin@adelaide.edu.au
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PhD Thesis Title:
Aeroacoustic Interaction of a Square Cylinder and a Flat Plate
(2008-continuing).
MS thesis title:
The Autorotation
Performance of UAV Helicopter using Quadratics and Rectangular Blade in
vertical Condition (2005-2007).
BS (Honours) Thesis Title:
Design and Fabricate a Model Rocket for Wind
Tunnel Test (2000-2004)
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Mohamed Sukri Bin Mat Ali
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Email: mohamed.ali@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au
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