Dr Michael Evans

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2017 - 2017	Lecturer/Course Coordinator (MECH ENG 4118/7059 Finite Element Analysis of Structures)	The University of Adelaide
  2017	Research Associate	University of Adelaide
  2015 - 2015	Visiting Endeavour Postgraduate Scholar	Stanford University
  2014 - 2014	Visiting Research Student	Politecnico di Milano
  2014 - 2017	PhD Student	University of Adelaide

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2018	Award	David Warren Travelling Fellowship	Combustion Institute	Australia	—
  2017	Award	Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence	—	—	—
  2015	Scholarship	Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship	—	—	69 500 AUD
  2013	Research Award	Best Energy Related Project (for Jet Flame Modelling)	Australian Institute of Energy (AIE)	—	—
  2013	Research Award	2nd Place, AIAA RegionVII-AU Student Conference	—	—	—
  2012	Award	Fred Jacka Memorial Prize (for Experimental Physics III)	—	—	—

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2014 - 2017	The University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD
  2013	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)
  2013	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Science

• Research Interests

  Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Heat Transfer Energy Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering Fluid Physics Lasers and Quantum Electronics Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy Simulation and Modelling Solid Mechanics

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2019	Evans, M., Petre, C., Medwell, P., & Parente, A. (2019). Generalisation of the eddy-dissipation concept for jet flames with low turbulence and low Damköhler number. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(4), 4497-4505. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
  2019	Evans, M., Sidey, J., Ye, J., Medwell, P., Dally, B., & Mastorakos, E. (2019). Temperature and reaction zone imaging in turbulent swirling dual-fuel flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(2), 2159-2166. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2019	Evans, M., Medwell, P., Sun, Z., Chinnici, A., Ye, J., Chan, Q., & Dally, B. (2019). Downstream evolution of n-heptane/toluene flames in hot and vitiated coflows. Combustion and Flame, 202, 78-89. DOI Scopus1
  2019	Foo, K., Evans, M., Sun, Z., Medwell, P., Alwahabi, Z., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Calculated concentration distributions and time histories of key species in an acoustically forced laminar flame. Combustion and Flame, 204, 189-203. DOI
  2018	Ye, J., Medwell, P., Kleinheinz, K., Evans, M., Dally, B., & Pitsch, H. (2018). Structural differences of ethanol and DME jet flames in a hot diluted coflow. Combustion and Flame, 192, 473-494. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
  2017	Evans, M., Chinnici, A., Medwell, P., & Ye, J. (2017). Ignition features of methane and ethylene fuel-blends in hot and diluted coflows. Fuel, 203, 279-289. DOI Scopus7 WoS4
  2017	Ye, J., Medwell, P., Evans, M., & Dally, B. (2017). Characteristics of turbulent n-heptane jet flames in a hot and diluted coflow. Combustion and Flame, 183, 330-342. DOI Scopus14 WoS11
  2017	Evans, M., Medwell, P., Wu, H., Stagni, A., & Ihme, M. (2017). Classification and lift-off height prediction of non-premixed MILD and autoignitive flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 36(3), 4297-4304. DOI Scopus24 WoS15
  2017	Evans, M., Medwell, P., Tian, Z., Ye, J., Frassoldati, A., & Cuoci, A. (2017). Effects of oxidant stream composition on non-premixed laminar flames with heated and diluted coflows. Combustion and Flame, 178, 297-310. DOI Scopus10 WoS8
  2016	Medwell, P., Evans, M., Chan, Q., & Katta, V. (2016). Laminar flame calculations for analyzing trends in autoignitive jet flames in a hot and vitiated coflow. Energy and Fuels, 30(10), 8680-8690. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
  2016	Evans, M. J., Medwell, P. R., Tian, Z. F., Frassoldati, A., Cuoci, A., & Stagni, A. (2016). Ignition characteristics in spatially zero-, one- and two-dimensional laminar ethylene flames. AIAA Journal, 54(10), 3255-3264. DOI Scopus9 WoS8
  2016	Ye, J., Medwell, P. R., Dally, B. B., & Evans, M. J. (2016). The transition of ethanol flames from conventional to MILD combustion. Combustion and Flame, 171, 173-184. DOI Scopus18 WoS16
  2015	Evans, M., Medwell, P., & Tian, Z. (2015). Modeling lifted jet flames in a heated coflow using an optimized Eddy dissipation concept model. Combustion Science and Technology, 187(7), 1093-1109. DOI Scopus42 WoS36

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2019	Evans, M., Ye, J., Kruse, S., Medwell, P., Sun, Z., Dally, 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	Foo, K., Evans, M., Medwell, P., Nathan, G., & Dally, B. (2019). Computational study of enhanced soot production in a time-varying laminar non-premixed flame. In 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2019.
  2018	Kirch, T., Evans, M., Medwell, P., Rapp, V., Birzer, C., & Gadgil, A. (2018). Mixing uniformity of emissions for point-wise measurements in exhaust ducts. In 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Adelaide.
  2017	Evans, M., Petre, C., & Parente, A. (2017). Generalisation of the eddy-dissipation concept for low turbulence, low Damköhler number jet flames. In 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion Vol. 2017-December. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  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. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  2015	Ye, J., Medwell, P., Dally, B., & Evans, M. (2015). Quantitative Rayleigh temperature imaging in turbulent flames of prevaporised n-heptane on MILD combustion of prevaporised liquid fuels. In In Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 85-89). Melbourne.
  2015	Evans, M. J., Medwell, P. R., Tian, Z. F., Frassoldati, A., Cuoci, A., & Stagni, A. (2015). Ignition Characteristics in Spatially Zero-, One- and Two-Dimensional Laminar Ethylene Flames. In K. Fidkowski (Ed.), 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (AIAA). Dallas, Texas: AIAA. DOI
  2015	Evans, M. J., Medwell, P. R., & Ye, J. (2015). Laser-induced fluorescence of hydroxyl in ethylene in jet flames in hot and diluted coflows. In Proceeding of 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 75-80). Melbourne.
  2015	Ye, J., Medwell, P. R., & Evans, M. (2015). Quantitative Rayleigh temperature imaging in turbulent flames of prevapourised n-heptane. In Proceedings of 7th Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion (pp. 85-89). Melbourne.
  2015	Evans, M. J., Medwell, P. R., Wu, H., Stagni, A., & Ihme, M. (2015). Classification of Non-Premixed MILD and Autoignitive Flames. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 80-83). Melbourne.
  2015	Medwell, P. R., Evans, M. J., Chan, Q. N., & Katta, V. R. (2015). The adequacy of laminar flame calculations for identifying MILD combustion. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 88-91). Melbourne.
  2015	Ye, J., Medwell, P. R., Evans, M. J., & Dally, B. B. (2015). The impact of carrier gas on ethanol flame behaviour in a Jet in Hot Coflow (JHC) burner. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 84-87). Melbourne.
  2013	Evans, M., Tian, Z., & Medwell, P. (2013). Modelling ethylene-hydrogen jet flames in the MILD combustion regime. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013 (pp. 1554-1560). Australia: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Aust & NZ.
  2013	Evans, M., Medwell, P., & Tian, Z. (2013). Parametric study of EDC model constants for modelling lifted jet flames in a heated coflow. In Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium (pp. 348-351). Online: The Combustion Institue.

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) - Coordinator & Lecturer (2017), Tutor (pre-2017), Marker
Combustion Technology & Emissions Control - Section Lecturer (2019)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - Guest Lecturer (2019), Tutor
Fracture Mechanics - Tutor, Marker

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• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2019	Co-Supervisor	Development and Integration of Fire Suppression Modelling Techniques	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Rainsey Ros
  2019	Co-Supervisor	High Pressure Combustion	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Douglas Brinkworth Proud

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• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2013 - ongoing	—	Combustion Institute	—
  2013 - ongoing	—	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)	—
  2013 - ongoing	—	Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)	—
  2011 - ongoing	—	Golden Key International Honour Society	—
  2008 - ongoing	—	Engineers Australia (EA)	—

• Position: Research Associate
• Phone: 83133252
• Email: m.evans@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 4367
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Engineering South, floor 2
• Room: 2 16c
• Org Unit: School of Mechanical Engineering