Research: Departmental Seminars 2008
Departmental seminars are made up of the Renowned Speaker Series (highlighted), Visiting Academic Series and PhD Confirmation Seminars.
Information regarding the speakers and topics is sent to staff and postgraduate students in the Department by email. If you want your name added to the mailing list, or would like to present a seminar, please email Professor Ivan Marusic at
Past Seminars
| Mr Farzad Keynejad PhD Completion Seminar Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne Improving SI engine cold start performance through enhanced control strategies. |
16 December 2008 |
| Mr Nader Karimi PhD Completion Seminar Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne On interaction of sound with the combusting flows. |
4 December 2008 |
| Ms Lele (Joyce) Zhang PhD Completion Seminar Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne On-line scheduling with constraints. |
17 November 2008 |
Mr Suhinthan Maheswararajah |
30 October 2008 |
| Dr Evatt Hawkes School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering University of New South Wales Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent combustion: Fundamental insights towards predictive models. |
24 October 2008 |
| Dr Leo Hwa Liang Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), ASTAR, Singapore Applications of biofluid mechanics in the development of medical devices: from heart valve engineering to bio-artificial liver devices. |
22 October 2008 |
| Dr David Lo Jacono Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Monash University The control of vortex breakdown and the study of wakes behind an oscillating cylinder. |
20 October 2008 |
| A/Prof John Sader Department of Mathematics & Statistics The University of Melbourne The mechanics of nanoscale devices. |
21 October 2008 |
| Dr Nicholas Hutchins Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne The existence of very-large scale motions in wall-bounded turbulent flows: Implications to flow control. |
17 October 2008 |
| Dr Jason Monty Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne Developments in turbulent pipe flow. |
15 October 2008 |
| Prof Ellen K Longmire TEWKESBURY FELLOW Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Experiments on drop collision and coalescence. |
7 October 2008 |
| Prof William Walsh BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Director, Surgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales Biomaterials and Biomechanics in Orthopaedics. |
30 September 2008 |
| A/Prof Konrad Swanepoel TEWKESBURY FELLOW Faculty of Mathematics, TU Chemnitz, Germany The local Steiner problem. |
5 September 2008 |
| Prof Nimal Rajapakse Professor and Director Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) The University of British Columbia, Canada Thermo-electro-mechanical performance of piezoelectric stack actuators under dynamic driving conditions. |
22 August 2008 |
| Prof Sébastien Candel SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR Ecole Centrale Paris, France Nonlinear flame dynamics and combustion instabilities. |
19 August 2008 |
| Prof Dale I Pullin Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA Large-eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow at high Reynolds numbers. |
18 August 2008 |
| Prof Peter A Monkewitz SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS SEMINAR Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Fundamental studies of fluid instabilities and turbulence - what do they contribute to energy technologies. |
14 August 2008 |
| Prof Hassan M Nagib TEWKESBURY FELLOW John T Rettaliata Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA Recent developments in flow control of separation and circulation and their impact on improved aerodynamic performance. |
12 August 2008 |
| Prof Alexander J Smits MIEGUNYAH FELLOW Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Chair, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Turbulent Flow: From Forest Fires to Submarines. |
7 August 2008 |
| Dr Evatt Hawkes School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering University of New South Wales Massively parallel direct numerical simulations of turbulent combustion. |
15 July 2008 |
| Prof Harry Watson Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Melbourne Backing the Winner - Which Zero Emission Powertrain |
19 May 2008 |
| A/Prof James Friend BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Monash University Applications of high frequency ultrasonics in microfluidics and microactuation. |
11 March 2008 |
| Dr Leslie Yeo BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Monash University Nanoearthquakes and microflows |
14 February 2008 |
| A/Prof Tim White Head, Division of Materials Science School of Materials Science and Engineering Nanyang Technological University; and Director, Faculty for Advanced Characterization, Testing and Simulation (FACTS), Singapore Crystallochemical adaptations of technological apatites. |
11 February 2008 |
| Dr Sven Dominka Postdoctoral Visitor Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Melbourne Hybrid Commissioning - from virtual to real commissioning |
22 January 2008 |
| Mr Saeed Saber-Samandari PhD Submission Seminar Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Melbourne Micromechanical properties of hydroxyapatite coatings using nanoindentation techniques |
21 January 2008 |