Dr Matthew Emes

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2017 - ongoing	Research Associate	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2014 - 2017	PhD Student	University of Adelaide, Adelaide

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2021	Award	Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award	International Solar Energy Society (ISES)	Australia	EUR 416.00
  2020	Research Award	Best Contribution to Solar Thermal Technology Innovation (ECR)	Centre for Energy Technology	Australia	-
  2017	Award	Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence	University of Adelaide	-	-
  2012	Award	Dean’s Merit Certificate for Outstanding Academic Achievement	University of Adelaide	Australia	-

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2014 - 2017	University of Adelaide, Adelaide	Australia	PhD
  2010 - 2013	University of Adelaide	Australia	Bachelor of Mechanical and Sustainable Energy Engineering

• Research Interests

  Aerodynamics Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Mechanical Engineering Renewable Power Turbulent Flows

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Bakhshipour, S., Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2024). Heliostat wind loads: Effects of the aspect ratio and ground clearance ratio. Solar Energy, 269, 14 pages. DOI
  2024	Marano, M., Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2024). Effect of facet gap on heliostat wind loading. Solar Energy, 271, 16 pages. DOI
  2024	Emes, M., Yellapantula, S., Sment, J., Armijo, K., Muller, M., Mehos, M., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2024). Heliostat Consortium: Gap Analysis on State of the Art in Wind Load Design. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 146(6). DOI
  2024	Emes, M. J., Marano, M., & Arjomandi, M. (2024). Heliostat wind loads in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL): Reconciling field measurements with wind tunnel experiments. Solar Energy, 277, 112742. DOI
  2022	Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2022). A feasibility study on the application of mesh grids for heliostat wind load reduction. Solar Energy, 240, 121-130. DOI Scopus5 WoS1
  2021	Emes, M., Jafari, A., Pfahl, A., Coventry, J., & Arjomandi, M. (2021). A review of static and dynamic heliostat wind loads. Solar Energy, 225, 60-82. DOI Scopus15 WoS7
  2021	Jafari, A., Emes, M., Cazzolato, B., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2021). Wire mesh fences for manipulation of turbulence energy spectrum. Experiments in Fluids, 62(2), 17 pages. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2020	Jafari, A., Emes, M., Cazzolato, B., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). Turbulence characteristics in the wake of a heliostat in an atmospheric boundary layer flow. Physics of Fluids, 32(4), 045116-1-045116-16. DOI WoS2
  2020	Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., Coventry, J., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The influence of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence on the design wind loads and cost of heliostats. Solar Energy, 207, 796-812. DOI Scopus19 WoS10
  2019	Yu, J. S., Emes, M. J., Ghanadi, F., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. (2019). Experimental investigation of peak wind loads on tandem operating heliostats within an atmospheric boundary layer. Solar Energy, 183, 248-259. DOI Scopus12 WoS13
  2019	Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., Arjomandi, M., Emes, M. J., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2019). Correlating turbulence intensity and length scale with the unsteady lift force on flat plates in an atmospheric boundary layer flow. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 189, 218-230. DOI Scopus25 WoS22
  2019	Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., Emes, M. J., Arjomandi, M., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2019). Measurement of unsteady wind loads in a wind tunnel: Scaling of turbulence spectra. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 193, 103955-1-103955-11. DOI Scopus26 WoS17
  2019	Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). Hinge and overturning moments due to unsteady heliostat pressure distributions in a turbulent atmospheric boundary layer. Solar Energy, 193, 604-617. DOI Scopus28 WoS21
  2019	Emes, M. J., Arjomandi, M., Kelso, R., & Ghanadi, F. (2019). Turbulence length scales in a low-roughness near-neutral atmospheric surface layer. Journal of Turbulence, 20(9), 545-562. DOI Scopus14 WoS9
  2018	Emes, M. J., Ghanadi, F., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. M. (2018). Investigation of peak wind loads on tandem heliostats in stow position. Renewable Energy, 121, 548-558. DOI Scopus18 WoS18
  2017	Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., Ghanadi, F., & Kelso, R. (2017). Effect of turbulence characteristics in the atmospheric surface layer on the peak wind loads on heliostats in stow position. Solar Energy, 157, 284-297. DOI Scopus39 WoS35
  2015	Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., & Nathan, G. (2015). Effect of heliostat design wind speed on the levelised cost of electricity from concentrating solar thermal power tower plants. Solar Energy, 115, 441-451. DOI Scopus42 WoS36
  -	Marano, M., Emes, M., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (n.d.). Heliostat Wind Load Field Measurements at the University of Adelaide Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Facility (ABLRF). SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 1. DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2024	Emes, M., Yellapantula, S., Sment, J., Armijo, K., Muller, M., Mehos, M., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2024). Heliostat Consortium: Gap Analysis on Wind Load for Achieving a Fully Competitive Heliostat Industry. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (Solar PACES, 2022) Vol. 1 (pp. 1-9). Online: Solar Power & Chemical Energy Systems. DOI
  2022	Emes, M., Jafari, A., Collins, M., Wilbert, S., Zarzalejo, L., Siegrist, S., & Arjomandi, M. (2022). Stowing strategy for a heliostat field based on wind speed and direction. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (solarPACES 2020) Vol. 2445 (pp. 120011-1-120011-9). Online: AIP Publishing. DOI Scopus1
  2022	Haselgrove, J., Kelso, R., & Emes, M. (2022). Development of a low-cost four-hole pressure probe for the measurement of three-dimensional fluid flows. In Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. The University of Sydney.
  2020	Arjomandi, M., Emes, M., Jafari, A., Yu, J., Ghanadi, F., Kelso, R., . . . Collins, M. (2020). A summary of experimental studies on heliostat wind loads in a turbulent atmospheric boundary layer. In Proceedings of the 25th Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Annual Conference (SolarPACES 2019), as published in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2303 (pp. 030003-1-030003-10). Daegu, South Korea: AIP Publishing. DOI WoS2
  2020	Jafari, A., Emes, M., Cazzolato, B., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). An experimental investigation of unsteady pressure distribution on tandem heliostats. In Proceedings of the 25th Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Annual Conference (SolarPACES 2019), as published in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2303 (pp. 030022-1-030022-10). Daegu, South Korea: AIP Publishing. DOI
  2019	Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). A Method for the Calculation of the Design Wind Loads on Heliostats. In C. Richter (Ed.), AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2126 (pp. 030020-1-030020-8). online: American Institute of Physics. DOI Scopus6 WoS5
  2019	Emes, M. J., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). Wind load design considerations for the elevation and azimuth drives of a heliostat. In Proceedings of the 25th Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Annual Conference (SolarPACES 2019), as published in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2303 (pp. 030013-1-030013-1-10). Daegu, South Korea: AIP Publishing. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2018	Emes, M., Jafari, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Estimating the turbulence length scales from cross-correlation measurements in the atmospheric surface layer. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. Scopus3
  2018	Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., & Cazzolato, B. (2018). Effect of free-stream turbulence on the drag force on a flat plate. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. Scopus7
  2017	Jafari, A., Emes, M., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). The Effect of Turbulence Intensity on the Peak Wind Loads on Heliostats. In PROCEEDINGS APSRC 2017 (pp. 1-8). online: Australian PV Institute.
  2017	Emes, M., Yu, J., Jafari, A., Ghanadi, F., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Experimental Investigation of the Wind Loads on Heliostats. In Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference 2017 (pp. 1-12). Melbourne, Australia: Australian PV Institute.
  2017	Emes, M., Ghanadi, F., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. (2017). Optimisation of the size and cost of heliostats in a concentrating solar thermal power tower plant. In Proceedings of The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2017: East meets West: Innovation and discovery (pp. 29-38). Brighton, UK: The International Academic Forum.
  2017	Ghanadi, F., Emes, M., Yu, J., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. (2017). Investigation of the atmospheric boundary layer characteristics on gust factor for the calculation of wind load. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1850 (pp. 130002-1-130002-5). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: AMER INST PHYSICS. DOI Scopus5 WoS2
  2017	Ghanadi, F., Yu, J., Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. (2017). Numerical investigation of wind loads on an operating heliostat. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1850 (pp. 130003-1-130003-6). Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: AMER INST PHYSICS. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
  2016	Coventry, J., Arjomandi, M., Barry, J., Blanco, M., Burgess, G., Campbell, J., . . . Yu, J. (2016). Development of the ASTRI heliostat. In V. Rajpaul, & C. Richter (Eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, as published in AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1734 (pp. 020005-1-020005-8). Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA: AIP. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2016	Emes, M., Ghanadi, F., Arjomandi, M., & Kelso, R. (2016). An experimental technique for the generation of large-scale spanwise vortices in a wind tunnel. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-5). Perth, Australia: AFMS.
  2016	Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., Kelso, R., & Ghanadi, F. (2016). Integral length scales in a low-roughness atmospheric boundary layer. In Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop (pp. 1-4). McLaren Vale, South Australia: AWES.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2017	Emes, M., Arjomandi, M., Ghanadi, F., & Kelso, R. (2017). Wind tunnel investigation of turbulence characteristics in the atmospheric surface layer. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the Wind Energy Science Conference 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark: European Academy of Wind Energy.

Applied Aerodynamics - Compressible Flow (2021-present)

Sports Engineering 3 - Magnus Effect Laboratory Demonstration (2015)

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

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2023	Co-Supervisor	Packed Beds for Thermal Energy Storage	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Obed Nenyi Otoo
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Heliostat wind load analysis in atmospheric boundary layer	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Matthew Luke Marano
  2021	Co-Supervisor	Measurement and simulation of the turbulent flow environment in road cycling.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Joshua Thomas Haselgrove
  2021	Co-Supervisor	Dynamic wind load on heliostat	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Sahar Bakhshipour

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2016 - 2018	-	Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society	-
  2016 - 2017	-	Australasian Wind Engineering Society	-
  2012 - ongoing	-	Golden Key International Honour Society	-

• Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (B)
• Phone: 83137185
• Email: matthew.emes@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Engineering South, floor 2
• Org Unit: Mechanical Engineering