Dr Zhao Tian

Dr Zhao Tian
 Position Senior Lecturer
 Org Unit Mechanical Engineering
 Email zhao.tian@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 1125
 Location Floor/Room 2 ,  Engineering South ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    Jan. 2016- current Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, The 成人大片

     

    Sep. 2010-Dec. 2015 Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, The 成人大片

     

    Sep. 2010-Jan, 2011 Endeavour Research Fellow, Tianjin University, China

     

    Sep. 2007-Sep. 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Scientist, CSIRO Minerals and CMIS, Melbourne, Australia

     

    Apr. 2007-Sep. 2007 Research Associate, RMIT University, Australia

     

     

  • Qualifications

    Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education), the 成人大片, Australia 2013

     

    Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, 2007

     

    M.E.S in Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2002

     

    B.E. in Thermal Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, 1997

     

     

     

  • Research Interests

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

     

    Renewable energy including solar hybrid systems, and geothermal systems 

     

    Solar cars design/build and simulations

     

    Combustion/gasification including fire simulations, coal combustion/gasification, MILD combustion,

     

    Multiphase flows particularly particle-laden flows

     

  • Research Funding

     

     

    A PhD/MPil scholarship is available funded by ARC fire research center.

    The main research objectives are to

    • Develop, validate and apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of fires in an enclosure
    • Design and build an experimental enclosure, and obtain experimental data from the enclosure.

     

    The program can be 3.5 years (PhD) or 2 years (MPil). 

    To be eligible, you must be

     

    • An Australia citizen.
    • Be able to obtain the admission to the Doctoral/Mpil program.

     

    Please contract Dr Zhao Tian for more details.

     

    Zhao.tian@adelaide.edu.au

     

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