Professor Andrew Ooi
teaching
Thermofluids, Computational Mechanics. Teaching
biography
Andrew Ooi is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a BE (1993) and PhD. (1997) from the same university. Prior to his current appointment, Andrew has worked at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) at NASA Ames and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).
research interests
Andrew's research interest is in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics, heat transfer, hydro-acoustics and bubble acoustics. He has over 20 refereed journal publications on these topics in high quality journals. He currently serves as a Chief Investigator in 2 ARC discovery grants and 1 linkage grant. Current projects and postgraduate supervision
curriculum vitae
selected publications
A. Ooi, G. Iaccarino, P. Durbin, M. Behnia, 2003, “Reynolds averaged simulation of flow and heat transfer in ribbed ducts”, Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, 23, 750-757.
A. Ooi, J. Martin, J. Soria and M.S. Chong, 1999, “A study of the evolution and characteristics of the invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in isotropic turbulence”, J. Fluid Mech, 38. 141-174.
E. Payne, S. Illesinghe, A. Ooi and R. Manaseh, 2005, “On the resonances of bubbles attached to a rigid boundary”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(5), 2841-2849.
K. Higgins, A. Ooi & M.S. Chong 2002 The structure of an unstable circular vortex in background straining flows J. Fluid Mech 462, 31-42..
R. Manasseh, A. Nikolovska, A. Ooi, & S. Yoshida 2004 Anisotropy
in the sound field generated by a bubble chain Journal of Sound and Vibration
278,
807-823.