Associate ProfessorAgisilaos Kourmatzis

Project Opportunities for Interested Candidates

Title: Development of next-generation fuel delivery devices for thermal energy conversion

Summary of opportunity:

This project will apply state of the art experimental diagnostic and computational methods to analyse the potential of using electrostatic charge as a means to delivery fuels in micro-devices. The project will focus on improving our fundamental understanding of “electro-hydrodynamic” flows whilst in parallel developing an experimental system to deliver electrically charged fuel for clean combustion applications.

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Title: Fluid-structure interaction in the human upper airway

Summary of opportunity:

This project will apply state of the art experimental diagnostic methods to analyse fluid structure interaction in model reconstructions of the human upper airway.

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Title: A new fundamental framework for three-phase fluid mechanics

Summary of opportunity:

This project will explore the very poorly understood area of particle-droplet gas interaction in highly turbulent flows. The project will focus on implementation of experimental methods, including state of the art tomographic imaging and laser based diagnostics.

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Title: Various Opportunities in multi-physics flows

Summary of opportunity:

There are a number of other opportunities in turbulent reacting flows (particularly spray combustion), as well as multi-physics electrified flows, both for experimental and computational approaches. Contact me if interested.

----------Active Research Projects----------

• Optical Coherence Tomography for Analysis of Deposition Mechanisms in Turbulent Flows (PDoc Researcher: Dr. Taye Mekonnen, Research Assistant: Mr. Heeseok Kim)-funded through ARC Linkage
• Atomization of Sustainable Aviation Fuels in reacting and non-reacting flows (PDOC Researcher: Dr. Rongying Tian, PhD Student: Mr. Huzaifa Jamil)-funded through ARC DIscovery
• Modelling of particulate inhalation under various gravities (PDOC researcher: Dr. XInyu Cai)
• Modelling the inhalation of bushfire smoke under variable breathing (PhD Candidate: Mr. Kian Lee)-with the Heat & Health Incubator, Faculty of Medicine & Health, funded through NHMRC Ideas.
• In-vitro modelling of particulate inhalation during exercise breathing (PhD Candidate: Mr. Yiming Xie, PhD Candiate: Ms. Sailor Anicker)-with the Heat & Health Incubator, Faculty of Medicine & Health, funded through NHMRC Ideas.
• Effervescent Atomization Processes for Marine Cloud Brightening (PhD Candidate:Mr. Joel Harper-Harris)-with the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (Great Barrier Reef Foundation)