Research > Associate Professor Andrew Ooi

current grants & projects

Ooi A., Burvill C., Brear M., DSTO, 2003 - 2004: "Mach 5/50 Medium Caliber Direct Fire Weapon"

CSIRO, 2003-2005: "Experimental investigations of Micro-fluids"

Ooi A., Manasseh, R., CSIRO/University of Melbourne, 2004- 2005: "Acoustic Streaming Physics for Medical Diagnostic"

DSTO, 2003: "CFD calculations of two-body interactions"

DSTO, 2004-2006: "Hydrodynamic Studies for Submarines and Off-board Systems"

Rhodes M.J., Soria, J., C. Li, Honnery D.R., Ooi, A., Bridgwater, A.V., ARC Discovery, 2005-2009: "Bio-oil from woody biomass-a sustainable fuel for Australia"

Chong M.S., Ooi, A., Monty, J.P., ARC Discovery, 2005-2008: "Surface roughness and its effects on wall-bounded turbulence"

Halgamuge S., Mendis, P., Ooi, A. et al., ARC special initiatives, 2005-2006: "Collection, Sharing, Visualisation and Analysis of locally gathered information from geographically remote areas vulnerable to tidal waves"

CSIRO, 2005-2007: "Nonlinear behavour of bubbles subject to acoustic field"

postgraduate students

Vasilli Kitsios

Mr. Ronny Wijaja, PhD
“Hydro acoustics of low Mach number bluff body flows”

Mr. Raymond Cohen, PhD
“Numerical study of the turbulent flow and acoustics two cylinders”

Mr. Kuba Sczepanik, PhD
“The enhancement of heat transfer with phase change material”

Ms. Kim Lien, PhD
“Experimental study of turbulent channel flow “

Mr. Edward Payne, PhD
“Experimental and theoretical study of oscillating microbubbles”

Mr. Suhith Illisinghe, PhD
“Symmetric model oscillations of bubbles close to solid boundaries”

Mr. James Brett, MEngSci
“Numerical study of an evaporating droplet”

Ms. Pauline Lai, MEngSci
“Acoustic Microstreaming”

Mr. Samuel Chenoweth, PhD

publications

Refereed Journal Papers

C. Peralta, A. Melatos, M. Giacobello & A. Ooi 2005 Global three-dimensional flow of a neutron superfluid in a spherical shell in a neutron star The Astrophysical Journal Accepted for publication.

R. Manasseh, A. Babanin, C. Forbes, K. Rickards, I. Bobevski & A. Ooi 2005 Passive acoustic determination of wave-breaking events and their severity across the spectrum Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Accepted for publication

E. Payne, S. Illesinghe, A. Ooi & R. Manasseh 2005 On the resonances of bubbles attached to a rigid boundary Journal of Acoustical Society of America 118(5), 2841-2849.

R. Widjaja, A. Ooi, L. Chen & R. Manasseh 2005 Computational aeroacoustics using the B-spline collocation method Comptes Rendus Mecanique 333(9), 726-731.

E. Rusly, L. Aye, W.W.S. Charters & A. Ooi 2005 CFD analysis of ejector in a combined ejector cooling system International Journal of Refrigeration 28, 1092-1101.

A. Doinikov, R. Manasseh, & A. Ooi 2005 On time delays in coupled multibubble systems Journal of Acoustical Society of America 117(1), 47-50.

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.

G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, P.A. Durbin & M. Behnia 2003 Reynolds averaged simulation of unsteady separated flow Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 24, 147-156.

G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, P.A. Durbin & M. Behnia 2002 Conjugate heat treansfer predictions in two-dimensional ribbed passages Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 23, 340-345.

A. Ooi, G. Iaccarino, P.A. Durbin & M. Behnia 2002 Reynolds averaged simulation of flow and heat transfer in ribbed ducts Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 23, 750-757.

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.

G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, P.A. Durbin & M. Behnia 2002 Conjugate heat transfer predictions in two-dimensional ribbed passages Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 23, 340-345.

W. Kollmann, A. Ooi, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 2001 Numerical simulations of vortex breakdown in swirling jets Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal 10(1), 63-75.

J. Faragher & A. Ooi 2001 Numerical modelling of flow and heat transfer in the rotating disc cavities of a turboprop engine Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 934, 497-504.

W. Kollmann, A. Ooi, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 2001 Direct numerical simulations of vortex breakdown in swirling jets Journal of Turbulence 2, 005.

B.A. Petterson Reif, P.A. Durbin & A. Ooi 1999 Modelling rotational effects in eddy-viscosity closures Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 20, 563­573.

A. Ooi, J. Martin, J. Soria & M.S. Chong 1999 A study of the evolution and charcteristics of the invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in isotropic turbulence J Fluid Mech 381, 141­174.

J. Martin, A. Ooi, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 1997 A study of the evolution of the velocity gradient tensor invariants in isotropic turbulence using direct numerical simulation. Phys Fluids 10(9), 2336­2346.

J. Martin, A. Ooi, C. Dopazo, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 1997 The inverse diffusion time scale of velocity gradients in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Phys Fluids 9(4), 814 ­ 816.

J. Soria, A. Ooi & M.S. Chong 1997 Volume integrals of invariant quantities of the velocity gradient tensor in incompressible flows. Fluid Dynamics Research 19(4), 219 ­ 233.

Book chapters

J. Soria, M.S. Chong & A. Ooi 1995 The spatial structure of intense foci in a time-developing three-dimensional plane wake. In Advances in Turbulence V (ed. Roberto Benzi). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

M. Behnia, A. Ooi & P. Gregory 2005 Prediction of turbulent heat transfer in impinging jet geometries In Modelling and simulation of turbulent heat transfer (ed. B. Sunden & M. Faghri). WIT Press.

Conference Papers

A. Ooi, R. Manasseh, A. Doinikov & A. Nikolovska, 2005 Effects of time delay in a bubble chain system In American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting November 20 - November 22, Chicago , USA.

R. Cohen,A. Ooi, G. Iaccarino & F. Ham, Numerical Study of the Flow over Two Circular Cylinders Arranged in Tandem at High Reynolds Numbers using Large Eddy Simulation 2005 In American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting November 20 - November 22, Chicago , USA.

P. Tho, A. Ooi, & R. Manasseh, Microstreaming Flows around Oscillating Bubbles 2005 In American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting November 20 - November 22, Chicago , USA.

D.R., Waters, R.G. Fox, A. Ooi & M.S. Chong Two Dimensional Flow Pattern Visualisation Around Two Unequal Cylinders in a Staggered Arrangement 2005 In 8th Asian Symposium on Visualization May 23 - May 27, Chiangmai, Thailand.

M. E., Young & A. Ooi Turbulence Models and Boundary Conditions for Bluff Body Flow 2004 In 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 13 - December 17, Sydney , Australia.

K., Lien, J., P., Monty, M., S., Chong & A. Ooi The Entrance Length for Fully Developed Turbulent Channel Flow 2004 In 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 13 - December 17, Sydney , Australia.

K., Szczepanik, A., Ooi, L., Aye, & G., Rosengarten A Numerical Study of Heat Transfer from a Cylinder in Cross Flow 2004 In 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 13 - December 17, Sydney , Australia.

E. M. B., Payne, R. Manasseh, & A. Ooi On Collective Oscillations of Bubble Chains and Arrays 2004 In 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 13 - December 17, Sydney , Australia.

R.C.Z., Cohen, A. Ooi & R. Widjaja Modelling of Solid Wall Boundaries in Computational Acoustics 2004 In 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 13 - December 17, Sydney , Australia.

A.,Ooi & R. Manasseh Coupled nonlinear oscillations of microbubbles 2004 In 12th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference September 27-October 1, Melbourne, Australia.

J., Brett, A.,Ooi & R. Widjaja Numerical Investigation of Acoustic Waves Scattering off Bluff Bodies 2004 In 12th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference September 27-October 1, Melbourne, Australia

A., Nikolovska, A.,Ooi, R. Widjaja, & R. Manasseh Resonant scattering from a chain of air bubbles in water 2004 In 7th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics July 5-8, Delft, Holland. 13.

R., Manasseh, A.,Ooi & L. Chen A coupled-oscillator model for bubbly-flow pressure signatures 2004 In 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF’04 May 30-June 4, Yokohama, Japan.

R., Manasseh, A.,Nikolovska & A. Ooi Visualising the acoustics field around a chain of bubbles using a hydrophone-scanning method 2003 In 7th Asian Symposium on Visualisation 3-7 November, Singapore.

A., Nikolovska, R., Manasseh, A., Ooi Temporal Evolution of the frequency of a bubble chain 2003 In 5th International Symposium on Cavitation 1-4 November, Osaka, Japan.

R. Widjaja, A. Ooi, L. Chen, R. Manasseh Application of B-spline collocation method in computational aeroacoustics 2003 In Computational Aeroacoustics: From Acoustic Sources Modeling to Far-Field Radiated Noise Prediction Colloquium EUROMECH 449 December 9-12, Chamonix, France.

M.S. Chong, A. Ooi & K. Higgins Use of the invariants of the velocity gradient tensor in the study of eddying motions and turbulence 2002 In 9th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics 27-31 May, Isfahan, Iran.

M. Giacobello, K. Higgins, A. Ooi, M.S. Chong & S. Balachandar DNS of swirling flow past a sphere 2002 In 9th European Turbulence Conference 2-5th July, Southampton, England.

L. Aye, W.S. Charters, A. Ooi & E. Rusly 2002 Combined solar and electric system for space cooling In Seventh international energy agency heat pump conference May 19-22, Beijing, China.

R. Manasseh, A. Bui, J. Sandercock & A. Ooi 2001 Sound emission process on bubble detachment In Fourteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 9-14, Adelaide, Australia.

K. Higgins, A. Ooi & M.S. Chong 2001 Merger of stretched vortices at high reynolds number In Fourteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 9-14, Adelaide, Australia.

A. Ooi, J. Soria, T.T. Lim, W. Kollmann & M.S. Chong 2001 A Numerical study of swirling vortex rings In Fourteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference December 9-14, Adelaide, Australia.

A. Ooi, M. Behnia & P. Gregory 2001 Numerical heat transfer predictions from a jet impinging on an inclined flat plate In First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Fluid Mechanics November 20-23, Sydney, Australia.

K. Higgins, A. Ooi, & M.S. Chong 2001 Merging of non-symmetric vortices In NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics September 2-7, Zakopane, Poland.

K. Higgins, A. Ooi, & M.S. Chong 2001 Evolution of an azimuthal mode 4 instability in a circular vortex In Melbourne Graduate Fluids Conference July 5, Melbourne, Australia.

G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, M. Behnia & P. Durbin 2001 Heat transfer prediction in ribbed ducts and cavities In CHT’01 advances in computational heat transfer II May 20-25, Queensland, Australia.

B.A. Pettersson Reif, A. Ooi, G. Iaccarino & P. Durbin 2000 On stably stratified homogeneous shear flow subjected to rotation. Center for Turbulence Research-Proceedings of the Summer Program 2000, 241-248.

A. Ooi, B.A. Pettersson Reif, G. Iaccarino & P. Durbin 2000 Evaluation of RANS models for rotating flows. Center for Turbulence Research-Proceedings of the Summer Program 2000 , 229-239.

A. Ooi & M. Behnia 2000 Numerical simulation of heat transfer in impinging jets In 7th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference July 3-6, Queensland, Australia.

J. Faragher & A. Ooi 2000 Heat transfer in a gas turbine rotating disc cavity with a non-axisymmetric outlet In 7th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference July 3-6, Queensland, Australia.

S. Wade, J. Soria, M.S. Chong & A. Ooi 2000 The relationship of Reynolds stresses and velocity temperature correlations to turbulent flow topology In 7th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference July 3-6, Queensland, Australia.

S. Wade, J. Soria, M.S. Chong & A. Ooi 2000 Enstrophy and dissipation with flow regions of a turbulent channel flow In Advances in Turbulence VII Proceedings of the 8th European turbulence Conference Barcelona, Spain.

G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, B.A. Pettersson & P.A. Durbin 1999 RANS simulations of rotating flows. Center for Turbulence Research-Annual Research Briefs, 257-266.

A. Ooi 1999 Predictions of flow over a model helicopter body In FLUENT user’s Group Meeting Sydney, Australia.

J. Faragher & A. Ooi 1999 Heat transfer predictions in rotating discs. In FLUENT user’s Group Meeting Sydney, Australia.

C.K. Tan, A. Ooi & M.S. Chong 1998 Numerical study of the vortex roll-up in a square cavity using fractional step method Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Melbourne, Australia, 291-294.

A. Ooi, G. Iaccarino & M. Behnia 1998 Heat transfer predictions in cavities. Center for Turbulence Research-Annual Research Briefs , 185-196.

S. Tiszen, A. Ooi, P.Durbin & M. Behnia 1998 Modelling of natural convection heat transfer. Center for Turbulence Research-Proceedings of the Summer Program 1998 , 287-302.

M.S. Chong, J. Soria & A. Ooi 1997 Evolution of the velocity gradients in DNS simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence. In 2nd International Seminar on Fluid mechanics and Heat Transfer Dec. 17 ­ 18, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A. Ooi, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 1997 Evolution of Coherent Focal Structures in Decaying Isotropic Turbulence. Bull. American Phys. Soc. 42(11), 2119.

A. Ooi, J. Soria, M.S. Chong & J. Martin 1997 Conditional mean trajectories of the velocity gradient invariants in isotropic turbulence. In Euromech Colloquium 364, “Dynamics and Statistics of Concentrated Vortices in Turbulent Flows” June 24-27, Carry-le-Rouet, France.

A. Ooi J. Soria & M.S. Chong 1996 Reynolds number dependence of the vorticity alignment with the three principal rates of strain. In 6th European Turbulence Conference July, Lausanne, Switzerland.

A. Ooi, J. Soria & M.S. Chong 1995 Alignment of vorticity with principal strain directions in the focal regions of a plane wake simulation. In 6th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics May 22 - 26, Singapore.

A.Ooi, M.S. Chong & J. Soria 1995 The study of vorticity-strain field alignment characteristics using direct numerical simulation of homogeneous turbulent flows. In 12th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Dec., Sydney, Australia.

A. Ooi, J. Soria, M.S. Chong 1994 The kinematics of topological structures in a time-developing three-dimensional plane wake Int. Colloquium on Jets, Wakes and Shear Layers, Melbourne, Australia.

J. Soria, M.S. Chong & A. Ooi 1994 The spatial structure of the alignment of the strain field and the vorticity in a plane wake 5th European Turbulence Conference, Siena, Italy.

A. Ooi & J. Soria 1992 The application of wavelet analysis to extract particle size information from particle-laden flow images. 11th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Hobart, Australia.

undergraduate teaching

436-204 Systems Modelling
436-351 Thermofluids 2
436-436 Advanced Computational Mechanics
436-465 Advanced Fluid Mechanics