Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology

Fluid and Process Dynamics research group

Staff

Group leader

NameResearch areaEmail
Associate Professor Akbar Rhamdhani Advanced material refining; metals recycling and recovery from urban ores; thermodynamics; extractive metallurgy; solar metallurgy.  arhamdhani@swin.edu.au

Core researchers

NameResearch areaEmail
Associate Professor Justin Leontini  Fluid-structure interaction; fluid mechanics; bluff-body wakes; flow-induced vibrations; linear and floquet stability; ocean wave power jleontini@swin.edu.au
Associate Professor Jamal Naser Industrial computational fluid dynamics; combustion; fluid mechanics; foaming modelling jnaser@swin.edu.au
Professor Geoffrey Brooks  Steelmaking; aluminium and magnesium production; high temperature processes; solar metallurgy; extractive metallurgy; process metallurgy gbrooks@swin.edu.au
Professor Richard Manasseh Fluid dynamics; wave energy (ocean wave power); bubble acoustic; inertia wave collapse; linear / nonlinear wave interactions rmanasseh@swin.edu.au

Postdoctoral and doctoral researchers

NameResearch areaEmail
Dr Shuang Zhu Bubble acoustics sjzhu@swin.edu.au
Dr Reiza Mukhlis High temperature processing  rmukhlis@swin.edu.au
Dr Swapnadip De Chowdhury   sdechowdhury@swin.edu.au
Muhamad Firdaus High temperature recycling /oxidation of rare earth magnets mfirdaus@swin.edu.au
Robin Vanparys Lead smelting, high temperature kinetics, carbothermic reduction rvanparys@swin.edu.au
Suneeti Purohit Ironmaking  spurohit@swin.edu.au
Epma Lupita Putri Diffusion of CO2 in carbon anode  eputri@swin.edu.au
Mohammad Mehedi Hasan Thermodynamics of strategic metals  mohammadhasan@swin.edu.au
Abdolhamid Anazadehsayed Numerical simulation of microscale foam aanazadehsayed@swin.edu.au
Dhefaf Faisal   dfaisal@swin.edu.au
Elmira Fadaei-Azar   efadaeiazar@swin.edu.au
Negar Mohammadhosseini   nhosseini@swin.edu.au  
Nastaran Rezaee   nrezaee@swin.edu.au
Md Rezwanul Karim Numerical modelling of packed bed biomass combustion mkarim@swin.edu.au
Md Roshid   mroshid@swin.edu.au
Azam Dolatshah Fluid-structure interaction; fluid mechanics; bluff-body wakes; flow-induced vibrations; linear and floquet stability; ocean wave power adolatshah@swin.edu.au
Abd Al Hamid Sarhan Numerical simulation of froth flotation asarhan@swin.edu.au
Rohini Kadam Sound signal for controlling steelmaking process  rkadam@swin.edu.au

Technical officers

NameEmail
Mrs Yeannette Lizama ylizama@swin.edu.au
Mr Colin Dingfielder cdingfelder@swin.edu.au