Our department offers research opportunities across a diverse range of subjects, including:
Thermofluids and energy technologies
Supervisor: Dr Yong Shi
- Multiphase flows and heat transfer with applications to automobile thermal management
- Physicochemical transport phenomena in porous media with applications to energy storage devices
- Low-speed non-continuum gas flows with applications to micro and nanodevices
- Electrohydrodynamics with applications to microfluidics
- Lattice Boltzmann method and Multiscale modeling
Supervisor: Dr Xinyu Zhang
- Large eddy simulation on gas-droplet turbulent flows in internal engines
- Numerical study on gas-liquid-particle three-phase flows in bubble columns
- Numerical study on combustion processes in utility boiler, gas-turbine and internal engine
- Modeling and simulations on multiphase flows in fuel cells
Dynamics and control
Supervisor: Dr Dunant Halim
- Energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations
- Intelligent control for noise and vibration suppression (eg for automotive applications)
- Sensor network for structural health monitoring
- Condition monitoring of electromechanical machines
- Laser processing of polymer composites
- Polymer composites from recyclable materials
- Simulation and modelling of thermoforming process
- Processing of thermoplastic composites
Supervisor: Dr Jian Yang
- Design and analysis of passive/active vibration control systems
- Incorporating nonlinearity to enhance the dynamic performance of mechanical systems
- Power flow analysis/statistical energy analysis theory and approaches for nonlinear systems
- Novel devices for vibration energy harvesting
- Multi-disciplinary design and optimisation (MDO) of engineering structures
- Modelling of morphing adaptive aircraft wing structures
- Employing smart structures/materials to improve vibration and noise suppression
- Aeroelastic analysis of aircraft wing structures
- Static & dynamic design and analysis of ship/offshore structures
- Uncertainty analysis & quantification of linear/nonlinear dynamical systems
Ergonomics
Supervisor: Dr Xu Sun
- Human factors in transportation and vehicle design
- Ergonomics in sustainable design
- Gerontechnology: design technology for older people
- Development of research methodologies in interaction design with innovative technologies and products
- Serious game design and research
Materials engineering
Supervisor: Dr Hao Chen
- Performance of thermal barrier coatings
- Thermal spray and cold spray of metallic coatings
- Creep behavior of super alloys
- Finite difference modeling of phase evolutions