Dr Zhiwei Sun
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr. Zhiwei Sun works on advanced experiments in combustion and multiphase flows like particleg-laden flows, fluidised beds and bubbles. Novel and unique home-developed optical/laser-based techniques are used to visualise the key parameters in lamianr or turbulent flows with high spatial and temporal resolution. He focuses on the development of unique new experimental methods.
- Advanced laser/optical diagnostics
- Experiments in thermo-fluids, laminar and turbulent
- Renewable thermal energy, hydrogen, combustion and multi-phase flows (particles, bubbles,...)
- High temperature processing and industry decarbonisation
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2023 - ongoing Senior Lecturer The University of Adelaide 2017 - ongoing co- Program Leader of the Section of Turbulent Sooting Flames ISF workshop 2012 - 2022 Senior Research Associate The University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2014 Fellowship David Warren Travelling Fellowship, Australia-New Zealand section, the Combustion Institute Australia - -
Language Competencies
Language Competency Chinese (Mandarin) Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2007 - 2012 Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University Sweden PhD 1999 - 2006 Department of Physics, Jilin University China B.S & M.S. -
Research Interests
Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics Fluids & Plasmas Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering Optics Powder and Particle Technology Renewable Power Hydrogen production from fossil fuels Hydrogen production from renewable energy Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
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Journals
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2023 Ang, D., Tang, Y., Chinnici, A., Tian, Z. F., Saw, W. L., Lau, T., . . . Nathan, G. J. (2023). Thermal Performance Analysis of a Scaled-up Suspension Flow Receiver for Generation of Industrial Process Heat: A Computational Study. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2815. AIP Publishing.
2020 Bi, X., Sun, Z., Lau, T., Alwahabi, Z., & Nathan, G. (2020). Simultaneous planar measurements of gas and particle velocities in particle-laden flows: proof-of-concept. In H. Chanson, & R. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC2020) (pp. 1-4). Brisbane, Australia-Online: The University of Queensland.
Scopus12019 Rowhani, A., Sun, Z., Chinnici, A., Medwell, P., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Effect of bluff-body diameter on the flow field and residence time of turbulent ethylene/nitrogen flames. In 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2019 (pp. 1-5). online: The Combstion Institute.
Scopus22019 Sun, Z., Alwahabi, Z., Dally, B., & Nathan, G. (2019). On the use of planar laser-induced fluorescence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in an ethylene/air laminar co-flow diffusion flame. In 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2019. 2019 Evans, M. J., Ye, J., Kruse, S., Medwell, P. R., Sun, Z., Dally, B. B., & Pitsch, H. (2019). Measurements of oxygenated C8/toluene flames in hot and vitiated coflows. In 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2019. 2019 Lewis, E., Lau, T., Sun, Z., Alwahabi, Z., & Nathan, G. (2019). Interference modes in laser induced fluorescence thermometry applied to particle-laden flows. In Proceedings of the 9th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics (ACLD) (pp. 51-54). Adelaide, Australia: University of Adelaide. 2018 Lewis, E., Lau, T., Sun, Z., Nathan, G., & Alwahabi, Z. (2018). Gas-phase temperature measurement of particle-laden jets. In Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (AHMTC11) (pp. 1-6). Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Lewis, E., Lau, T., Sun, Z., Nathan, G., & Alwahabi, Z. (2018). Effect of particle loading on interference in planar laser induced fluorescence thermometry. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). The University of Adelaide: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2017 Evans, M., Medwell, P., Sun, Z., & Dally, B. (2017). Temperature imaging of gaseous n-heptane flames in hot vitiated coflows. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion Vol. 2017-December. online: The Combustion Institute. 2017 Mahmoud, S., Nathan, G., Alwahabi, Z., Sun, Z., Medwell, P., & Dally, B. (2017). The Influence of Reynolds Number on Soot Concentration in Turbulent Non-premixed Jet Flames. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2017 Vol. 2017-December (pp. 1-4). online: The Combustion Institute. 2017 Foo, K., Sun, Z., Medwell, P., Alwahabi, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2017). Characteristics of an acoustically forced non-premixed jet flame. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2017 Vol. 2017-December. online: The Combustion Institute. 2017 Ye, J., Kruse, S., Medwell, P., Sun, Z., Dally, B., & Pitsch, H. (2017). Effects of Di-n-butyl ether addition to turbulent toluene sooting flames. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2017 Vol. 2017-December (pp. 1-4). online: The Combustion Institute. 2017 Sun, Z., Dally, B., Alwahabi, Z., & Nathan, G. (2017). Characteristics of oxygen-enriched laminar ethylene diffusion sooting flames. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2017 Vol. 2017-December (pp. 1-4). online: The Combustion Institute. 2015 Alwahabi, Z., Sun, Z., & Wall, M. (2015). Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Detection of High and Low Concentrations. In Proceedings of 7th Australian conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 9-14). Online: Monash University. 2015 Sun, Z., Nathan, G., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2015). Numerical assessments of measuring soot aggregates sizes using elastic scattering at two laser wavelengths and one collection angle. In Proceedings of 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustionb (pp. 61-64). Online: Monash. 2015 Algoraini, S., Sun, Z., & Alwahabi, Z. (2015). Laser-Induced Incandescence of Laminar Premixed C2H4-Air flames at Well-Controlled Pressure. In Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 65-68). Online: Monash University. 2015 Dong, X., Sun, Z., Gu, D., Nathan, G., Ashman, P., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2015). The influence of high flux broadband radiation on soot concentration and temperature in a sooty flame. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 348-351). Online: The Combustion Institute. 2015 Mahmoud, S., Sun, Z., Dally, B., Alwahabie, Z., Medwell, P., & Nathan, G. (2015). The effect of exit strain rate on soot volume fraction in turbulent non-premixed jet flames. In Y. Yang, & N. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 356-359). Online: The Combustion Institute.
2015 Dong, X., Nathan, G., Sun, Z., Gu, D., Ashman, P., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2015). Influence of simulated solar radiation on the soot volume fraction in laminar sooty flames. In ASPACC 2015 - 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (pp. 6 pages). online: The Combustion Institute. 2015 Sun, Z., Mahmoud, S., Dally, B., Nathan, G., & Alwahabi, Z. (2015). Soot volume fraction and temperature measurements in laminar C2H4/air diffusion flames with H2 and N2 blended at atmospheric pressure. In ASPACC 2015 - 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (pp. 1-6). online: The Combustion Institute. 2015 Gu, D., Sun, Z., Nathan, G., Dong, X., Alwahabi, Z., Dally, B., & Medwell, P. (2015). Application of two-line atomic fluorescence to sooting flames under irradiation from a high-flux solar simulator. In ASPACC 2015 - 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (pp. 6 pages). online: The Combustion Institute.
Scopus12014 Nathan, G., Alwahabi, Z., Dally, B., Medwell, P., Arjomandi, M., Sun, Z., . . . Van Eyk, P. (2014). Optics and photonics in solar thermal energy technologies. In Optical Instrumentation for Energy and Environmental Applications, E2 2014 (pp. 1-3). Online: Optical Society of America (OSA).
2014 Alwahabi, Z., Nathan, G., Dally, B., Medwell, P., & Sun, Z. (2014). Optics & photonics for combustion diagnostic studies. In Optical Instrumentation for Energy and Environmental Applications, E2 2014. Canberra, Australia: Optical Society of America (OSA). 2014 Sun, Z., Gu, D., Nathan, G., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2014). Optical methods for instantaneous and planar measurements of soot sizes in flames. In Proceedings of the Optical Instrumentation for Energy and Environmental Applications (OIEEA 2014): Optics and Photonics for Energy & the Environment (E2), as published in Proceedings Light, Energy and the Environment (pp. 1-3). Canberra, Australia: Optical Society of America (OSA).
2014 Alwahabi, Z. T., Nathan, G. J., Dally, B. B., Medwell, P. R., & Sun, Z. (2014). Optics & photonics for combustion diagnostic studies. In Optical Instrumentation for Energy and Environmental Applications, E2 2014. OSA.
2013 Dong, X., Ashman, P., Nathan, G., & Sun, Z. (2013). Optical design of a high flux solar simulator configurable to achieve either a line or a point focus. In Proceedings of Chemeca 2013 (pp. 1-7). Barton, ACT: Engineers Australia. 2013 Sun, Z., Nathan, G., Alwahabi, Z., & Dally, B. (2013). Single-shot, time-resolved planar laser-induced incandescence (TR-LII) for soot particle sizing - part II: in a turbulent flame. In Proceedings of the Australian combustion Symposium 2013 (pp. 100-103). Online: The Combustion Institute. 2013 Sun, Z., Alwahabi, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2013). Single-shot, time-resolved planar laser-induced incandescence (TR-LII) for soot particle sizing - part I: in a laminar flame. In Proceedings of the Australian combustion Symposium 2013 (pp. 95-99). Western Australia: The Combustion Institute. 2013 Gu, D., Sun, Z., Medwell, P., Alwahabi, Z., & Nathan, G. (2013). Spectral Assessment of Interferences to Two-line Atomic Fluorescence (TLAF) in Turbulent Sooty Flames. In M. Zhu, Y. Ma, Y. Yu, H. Vuthaluru, Z. Zhang, & D. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 263-266). Australia: The Combustion Institute Australian & New Zealand Section. 2013 Hurtig, T., Elfsberg, M., Li, Z., Sun, Z., Ehn, A., & Larfeldt, J. (2013). Experiments on plasma assisted combustion using a dielectric barrier surface discharge. In Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference. IEEE.
2011 Sun, Z., Försth, M., Li, Z., Li, B., & Aldén, M. (2011). In situ measurements of HCN in a tube furnace with infrared polarization spectroscopy. In Fire Safety Science Vol. 10 (pp. 279-291). International Association for Fire Safety Science.
Scopus52008 Li, Z. S., Sun, Z. W., Li, B., Aldén, M., & Försth, M. (2008). Detection of HCl in a premixed H<inf>2</inf>/O<inf>2</inf>/Ar flame seeded with CHCl<inf>3</inf> using mid-IR polarization spectroscopy. In X. Q. Zhang, & X. Liu (Eds.), Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (pp. 222-226). Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA: WORLD PUBLISHING CORPORATION.
WoS42008 Li, Z. S., Sun, Z. W., Li, B., Aldén, M., & Försth, M. (2008). Detection of HCl in a premixed H<inf>2</inf>/O<inf>2</inf>/Ar flame seeded with CHCl<inf>3</inf> using mid-IR polarization spectroscopy. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. OSA.
2005 Sun, Z. W., Qiu, Y. H., Shi, Y. J., Tao, R., Chen, J., Ge, Y., . . . Zhang, X. G. (2005). Time courses of B7 family molecules expressed on activated T-cells and their biological significance. In CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY Vol. 236 (pp. 146-153). Adelaide, AUSTRALIA: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE.
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Award:
- Measurement Achievement Encouragement Award (formerly the NMI prize), National Measurement Institute (2023)
- Centre’s Best contribution to Research Quality in Optical Diagnostics, Centre for Energy Technology (CET), The University of Adelaide (2020)
- Endeavour Research Fellowship, Department of Education (2018)
- David Warren Travelling Fellowship, ANZ section, the Combustion Institute (2014)
Grant and Funding:
- SiPHyR: A new technology for affordable net-zero hydrogen production, CRC-P 15, $2,500,000 (UoA: Nathan and Sun, 2024 - 2027)
- The Global Hydrogen Production Technologies (HyPT) Centre, NSF and CSIRO; UoA~$2,225,000 (UoA: Metha, Nathan and Sun, 2024 - 2028)
- Global partnership engagement seed funding to Sweden for green ironmaking, The University of Adelaide, $6,800 (Sun, 2023)
- A high-speed camera, The University of Adelaide, $93,000 (Sun and Medwell, 2023)
- Develop a heat-exchanger via optical diagnostics and CFD modellings, $450,000 (Sun, Nathan and Chin, 2022 - 2023)
- Digi+ FAME Strategy: Step-change numerical models using big data from laser diagnostics, $100,000 (co-CI Sun, 2022)
- Innovation Connections Grant, Stage-II, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, $160,000 (Nathan and Sun, 2021)
- Innovation Connections Grant, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, $100,000 (Nathan, Sun, Jafarian and Alwahabi, 2020)
- Particle Technologies, Australian Solar Thermal Institute (ASTRI), $363,000 (Nathan, Arjomandi, Saw, Sun, Sedaghatizadeh, Manickam, 2020)
Combustion technology & High-temperature processing
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Co-Supervisor Investigation of particle size and flow parameters in turbulent particle-laden flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mit Piyush Bakhai 2019 Co-Supervisor Heat and Mass Transport in Particle-Laden Flows Under Conditions of Solar Receiver Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xiaopeng Bi -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2019 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Optical diagnostics of soot formation in low pressure laminar premixed flames Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Safa Mohammed M Algoraini 2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Experimental and Numerical Study of Free-falling Particle-laden Flows Relevant to Solar Particle Receivers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shipu Han
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