A/Prof. Richard Manasseh   Associate Professor

Brief Professional Biography

Richard Manasseh is a mechanical engineer with a PhD in applied mathematics. His specialty is fluid dynamics, specifically vibrations and wave modes in fluids. He is best known for his work on the vibrations of bubbles, called bubble acoustics.

Applications of his research have included spacecraft engineering, coastal oceanography, thunderstorms, submarine noise, and wastewater treatment; current applications are in biomedicine and renewable energy. Active projects are on ultrasonic separation, microbubble ultrasound contrast agents for medical therapeutics and diagnostics, ocean wave power generation and passive bubble acoustics for industrial and ocean measurement. His research has also included multiphase particulate flows and mixing. He is a specialist in laboratory experiments with significant field and industrial plant experience.

He developed bubble acoustic measurements for industrial feedback from fundamental research through to commercialisation. He has patented an acoustic micromixer currently being commercialised. He initiated, developed and managed Australian-first initiatives in ultrasound diagnostics and neurovascular fluid dynamics.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He has lectured in fluid mechanics for engineers since 2007. He has officially co-supervised four PhD students(two completed), six Masters students (four completed) and over 50 final-year students. In mid 2010 he joined Swinburne University of Technology's Faculty of Engineering and and Industrial Sciences.

In 2007 his career returned to a research orientation after twelve years of industrial R& D experience. He has published 39 refereed journal papers (about 45% of which are in journals given the maximal A* quality ranking by the Australian Research Council), and 30 refereed conference papers. Other full papers number 36. His H-index is 12

Education

• 1998–2000 GradDipMgt (Technology Management), Deakin University, Australia.
• 1987–1991 PhD Dept. Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 1983–1986 BEng (Mechanical) University of Melbourne, Australia.

Memberships

• 2011 Associate Member, Acoustical Society of America
• 2009 Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia.
• 2009 Member, Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society
• 2009 Member, Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
• 2008 Member, International Contrast Ultrasound Society.
• 2003 Member, Royal Society of Victoria.
• 1995 Member, Australian Marine Sciences Association.

Collaborations

(Joint publications generated in the last 5 years.)

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Fluid Dynamics Group, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
• Institut de Mécanique des Fluides, Toulouse, France
• Florey Neurosciences Institutes, Melbourne, Australia
• Fluids Laboratory, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
• INSERM, Université de Tours, France

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Nirali Shah	PhD	Faculty	2009	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
Arezoo Motamed Ektesabi	PhD	Mech Eng	2011	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne
Md Shamsul Arefin	PhD	Mech Eng	2011	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne
Ifat-Al Bagee
	PhD	Fac	2012	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne

Topics for Prospective Ph.D Students - View ALL topics for A/Prof. Richard Manasseh

Sustainable biodiesel production using hydrodynamic cavitation
Students would undertake precision experiments in which cavitation bubbles are formed in a flow chamber that would be filled with appropriate algal cells. The cells would be imaged microscopically. The aim would be to determine the physical parameters under which the cells release their oil droplets. The project is in collaboration with CSIRO.

Sonoporation for targeted drug delivery - experimental
The use of microbubbles for medical therapy is one of the most exciting new trends in microtechnology.
The demand is for further research to make the technology safe and suitable for human trials.
This project would study the physical processes by which sonoporation works.

Sonoporation for targeted drug delivery - numerical
The use of microbubbles for medical therapy is one of the most exciting new trends in microtechnology.
This project would calculate the physical processes by which sonoporation works. Advanced computer simulation techniques will be used measure details of the fluid-flow fields around microbubbles driven by ultrasound near cells, predicting sonoporative effects

Acoustic measurement of oceanic carbon dioxide absorption
The oceans are thought to absorb nearly half of all the carbon dioxide humans put into the atmosphere, but the true amount of greenhouse gas absorbed by the oceans remains unknown.
This project will involve two classes of laboratory experiments in which bubbles are formed.
This research could be applied to calculate CO2 absorption.

Making electrowinning sustainable with acoustic feedback
In this project hydrophones will measure the high- and low-frequency sounds created by an gas injection into a model bath. Bubbles will be imaged with high-speed photography.
The aim is to develop a correlation between the measured sounds and parameters of practical industrial interest.
The project is in collaboration with CSIRO.

Novel Wave Power Machines
This project aims to develop new technologies for extracting energy from ocean waves.

Students will undertake experimental projects with model devices, or theoretical and numerical projects.

Current External Students

Current

• 2009 Co–supervisor, Masters student James Collis University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering (microbubble acoustics).
• 2009 Co–supervisor, Masters student Fatimah Dzaharudin, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering (microbubble acoustics).

Previous External Students

• 2005 Co–supervisor, PhD student Edward Payne, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering (microbubble acoustics).
• 2006–2009 Co–supervisor, Masters student Terry Yoon, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Effect of time delay in a multi–bubble chain arrangement system model" (graduated).
• 2004–2009 Co–supervisor, Masters student Pauline Lai, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Acoustic streaming for medical diagnostics" (Graduated).
• 2004–2006 Co–supervisor, Masters student Suhith Illesinghe, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Acoustical properties of multiple bubbles attached to a solid boundary" (Graduated).
• 2003– Co–supervisor, PhD student Ronny Widjaja, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Computational hydroacoustics".
• 2003–2005 Co–supervisor, Masters student Paul Tho, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Cavitation microstreaming in single and two bubble systems" (Graduated).
• 2002–2005 Co–supervisor, PhD student Aneta Nikolovska, University of Melbourne, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, "Passive acoustic transmission and channelling along bubble chains" (Graduated).

Recent Journal Papers

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  Full Bibliographical Listing

  Current to January 2012

A short selection of papers published in the last two years is provided below

1. Manasseh, R., Ooi, A., 2009. “Frequencies of acoustically interacting bubbles”, Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology 1(1–2), 58–74.
2. Bui, A., Sutalo, I., Manasseh, R., Liffman, K., 2009, “Dynamics of pulsatile flow in fractal models of vascular branching networks”. Med. & Biol. Eng. & Comp. 47(7), 763–772.
3. Petkovic–Duran, K., Manasseh, R., Zhu, Y., Ooi, A. 2009. “Chaotic micromixing in open wells using audio–frequency acoustic microstreaming”, BioTechniques 47(4), 827–834.
4. Chen, C., Zhu, Y., Leech, P. W., Manasseh, R., 2009. “Production of monodispersed micro–sized bubbles at high rates in a microfluidic device”. Applied Phys. Lett. 95, 144101–1–3.
5. Illesinghe, S. J., Ooi, A., Manasseh, R., 2009, “Eigenmodal resonances of polydisperse bubble systems on a rigid boundary”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(6), 2929–2938.
6. Chong, K. Y. C., Quek, C. Y., Dzaharudin, F., Ooi, A., Manasseh, R., 2010, “The effects of coupling and bubble size on the dynamical–systems behaviour of a small cluster of microbubbles”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 329, 687–699.
7. Collis, J., Manasseh, R., Liovic, P., Tho, P., Ooi, A., Petkovic–Duran, K., Zhu, Y., 2010, “Cavitation microstreaming and stress elds created by microbubbles”, Ultrasonics 50, 273–279
8. Aldham, B., Manasseh, R., Illesinghe, S., Liffman, K., Ooi, A., Sutalo I. D. 2010. “Measurement of pressure on a surface using bubble acoustic resonances”. Measurement Sci. Tech. 21, 027002 (7pp).
9. Bui, A., Manasseh, R., Liffman, K., Sutalo, I., 2010. "Development of optimized vascular fractal tree models using level set distance function". .Med. Eng. & Phys.. 32, 790-794.
10. Liovic, P., Francois, M., Rudman, M., Manasseh, R., 2010. “Efficient simulation of surface tension–dominated flows through enhanced interface geometry interrogation”. J. Comp. Phys. 229, 7520–7544.
11. Boon, W. C., Petkovic-Duran, K., White, K., Tucker, E., Albiston, A., Manasseh, R., Horne, M. K., Aumann, T. D., 2011. “Acoustic micromixing increases the efficiency of reverse transcription reactions comprising single-cell quantities of RNA”, Biotechniques, 50(2), 116-119.
12. Payne, E., Ooi, A., Manasseh, R. 2011. “Insonation frequency selection may assist detection and therapeutic delivery of targeted ultrasound contrast agents”, Therapeutic Delivery, 2(2), 213-222.
13. Chicharro, R., Vazquez, A., Manasseh, R., 2011 “Characterization of patterns in rimming flow. Exp”, Thermal Fluid Sci, 35, 1184-1192.
14. Leong, T., Collis, J., Manasseh, R., Ooi, A., Novell, A., Bouakaz, A., Ashokkumar, M., Kentish, S., 2011. "The Role of Surfactant Head Group, Chain Length and Cavitation Microstreaming on the Growth of Bubbles by Rectified Diffusion", The Journal of Physical Chemistry 115(49), 24310-24316.