Staff

Permanent Staff

• Dr Josie Carberry Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Biofluid mechanics, cardiovascular flows, platelet activation and adhesion, flow profiles and shearing in atherosclerosis, bluff body aerodynamics, flow induced vibrations, flow measurement techniques, particle image velocimetry. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 59646 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Dr Andreas Fouras Laboratory Manager & Senior Research Fellow, Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Research Interests: Synchrotron-based in-vivo cardiovascular imaging and velocimetry, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) techniques, boundary-layer flows, experimental measurement and diagnostic techniques. Address: Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 53493 / Fax: +61 3 990 58381
• Prof Kerry Hourigan Director, Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Research Interests: Biological and biomedical engineering and imaging, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), aeroacoustics, turbomachinery, mineral processing fluid dynamics, supersonic Jets. Address: Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 59624 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Dr Kris Ryan Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Wake instabilities, vortex dynamics, non-linear dynamics, bluff-body fluid mechanics. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 51724 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Dr Gregory J Sheard Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Bio-fluid mechanics, computational blood flow modelling, application and development of high-order methods for computational fluid dynamics (including spectral-element methods), bluff-body flows and wake instabilities, linear & non-linear stability analysis. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 51182 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Prof John Sheridan Chair of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Bluff-Body Aerodynamics, Wake Stability and Control, Wake-Wave Interactions, Vehicle Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanicsof Bioreactors, Particle Image Velocimetry. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 54913 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Prof Mark Thompson Head of Department, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), numerical methods, aeroacoustics, turbomachinery, simulation of three-dimensional flows, non-Newtonian fluid flows. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 59254 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825

Research Staff

• Dr Martin Griffith Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Pipe flows, stenosed arterial flows, stability and transition in fluid flows. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 53797 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Dr Justin Leontini Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Interests: Orr-Sommerfeld equation and stability of parallel flows, vortex-induced vibration, flow past oscillating bodies. Address: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 51610 / Fax: +61 3 990 51825
• Ms Charlene Chua Engineer & Research Associate, Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Research Interests: Design and development of experimental equipment for synchrotron use, vascular fluid dynamics.
  Other Interests: Webdesign, website maintenance, markup languages. Address: Division of Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia Phone: +61 3 990 51927 / Fax: +61 3 990 58381

Malaysia Staff

• Dr Tan Boon Thong Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Monash University (Malaysia) Research Interests: Stirred Tank bioreactors in relation to mamalian cell culture, swirling flows and the control of vortex breakdown, flow around bluff bodies and flow stability, computational Aero-acoustic modelling. Address: School of Engineering, Sunway Campus, Monash University, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 46150, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Phone: +60 3 5514 6246 / Fax: +60 3 5514 6207 (Attn: Dr Tan Boon Thong, Department of Engineering)

Visiting Academics

• Professor Morten Brøns (homepage) Duration: September 2006. Research Interests: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, singular perturbations of ODEs, non-linear dynamics, industrial mathematics. Home Institution: Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark.
• Professor Jens Sørensen (homepage) Duration: February-May 2006. Research Interests: Aerodynamics, bio-fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic instabilities, rotating flows. Home Institution: Institut for Mekanisk Teknologi, Technical University of Denmark.
• Dr Lionel Schouveiler (homepage) Duration: February-May 2006. Research Interests: Fundamental and experimental fluid mechanics (rotating disk flows, bluff body wakes, fluid flow / flexible structure interactions. Home Institution:Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE) & UMR 6594 CNRS / Universités Aix-Marseille I & II.
• Dr Thomas Leweke (homepage) Duration: November 2002-January 2003, March-April 2006. Research Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics, instabilities in wake flows and vortex flows. Home Institution:Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE) & UMR 6594 CNRS / Universités Aix-Marseille I & II.
• Professor André Giovannini (homepage) Duration: Late 2003. Research Interests: Stability theory, vortex methods for computational fluid dynamics. Home Institution:Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT) & Département de Mécanique Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III.
• Professor Charles HK Williamson (homepage) Duration: January-February 2003. Research Interests: Bluff body wakes and vortex induced vibration. Home Institution:Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratories, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
• Professor Michel Provansal Duration: December 2002. Research Interests: Instabilities in fluid flows, bluff body wakes, oscillating cylinder wakes. Home Institution:Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE) & UMR 6594 CNRS / Universités Aix-Marseille I & II.
• Dr Patrice Le Gal (homepage) Duration: December 2002. Research Interests: Wakes, rotating flows, turbulence, Ginzburg-Landau model. Home Institution:Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (IRPHE) & UMR 6594 CNRS / Universités Aix-Marseille I & II.

Postgraduate Students

Past Postgraduates