Dr Rey Chin
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.
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Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Control, Multiphase flow, Biofouling, Blood Flow, Coronary arterial flows, UAV, Rough wall flow, Aerospace applications, Renewable energy.
Postdoc projects
There are postdoc positions available, please email me with to discuss.
PhD projects
Seeking PhD candidates for the following projects
· Hypersonic flows.
· Turbulence.
· Numerical simulations of rough wall flow.
· Experimental studies on rough wall flow.
· Numerical simulations of extreme Reynolds number pipe flow.
· Coronary blood flow in diseased arteries (Experimental and numerical).
· Machine learning for diseased artery prediction.
· UAV studies for optimum flight dynamics.
· Experiments over ship and aircraft surfaces.
· Two-phase flow for particle-laden flows.
· Heat transfer in pipe flows.
· Flow control methodologies for suppressing drag.
· Multiphase flow with heat transfer.
Summer Research Projects
If you are interested to find out more about life as a HDR student, please contact me. There are opportunities to undertake a short term research in the above projects/areas.
Database of simulation (in files)
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/rey.chin#
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2024 - ongoing Discipline Lead of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide 2019 - 2024 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide 2018 - 2021 ARC DECRA Fellow The University of Adelaide 2016 - 2019 Lecturer The University of Adelaide 2012 - 2016 Post Doc The University of Melbourne -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title The University of Melbourne Australia PhD -
Postgraduate Training
Date Title Institution Country Graduate Certificate in Commercialisation Melbourne Business School, Australia -
Research Interests
Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics Experimental methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics) Biomedical fluid mechanics Computational Fluid Dynamics Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering Fundamental and theoretical fluid dynamics Hypersonic Aerodynamics Aerodynamics Aerospace Engineering Energy Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering Fluid Physics Turbulent Flows Multiphysics flows (incl. multiphase and reacting flows)
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Journals
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Book Chapters
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2024 Zhang, X., Nathan, G., & Chin, R. (2024). Particle distribution in bi-disperse particle-laden jets. In Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Canberra, Australia.
DOI2023 Zhang, X., Nathan, G., Tian, Z., & Chin, R. (2023). Spread of bi-disperse particles in the downstream domain of a turbulent co-flowing jet. In Proceedings of the 14th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements. Barcelona, Spain. 2022 Zhang, X., Zhang, Z., Chinnici, A., Sun, Z., Shi, J., Nathan, G., & Chin, R. (2022). Physics-informed data-driven RANS turbulence modelling for single-phase and particle-laden jet flows. In Proceedings of the 23nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Sydney. 2022 Kong, J., Bennetts, L. G., Nugroho, B., & Chin, R. (2022). REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS IN 2D SQUARE-BAR ROUGHNESS WALL-BOUNDED TURBULENT FLOWS. In 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2022 (pp. 6 pages). Online: International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP. 2022 Chan, C. I., & Chin, R. C. (2022). FLOW STRUCTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER MODIFIED BY MINIATURE VORTEX GENERATORS. In 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2022 (pp. 6 pages). Online: International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP. 2022 Guerrero, B., Lambert, M. F., & Chin, R. C. (2022). ACCELERATING TURBULENT PIPE FLOW: ROLE OF THE LARGE- AND SMALL-SCALES OF MOTION. In 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2022 (pp. 5 pages). Online: International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP. 2021 Ko, B., Liu, S., Fang, Z., Nugroho, B., & Chin, R. C. (2021). Far field flow simulation of contra-rotating H-Darrieus vertical axis wind turbine. In AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2403 (pp. 040011). Online: AIP Publishing.
DOI2021 Khaniki, H. B., Ghayesh, M. H., & Chin, R. (2021). Effects of non-uniform cross-section and stiffness on the nonlinear vibration behaviour of soft robotic arms. In Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics 2021, ACAM 2021 (pp. 355-367). Virtual, Online: Engineers Australia. 2020 Zhang, X., Nathan, G., Tian, Z. F., & Chin, R. C. (2020). A numerical study of gravity effects on horizontal particle-laden pipe flows. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 4 pages). Australia: The University of Queensland.
DOI2020 Brown, G., Chin, R., & Philip, J. (2020). Vorticity Transport in Turbulent Pipe Flow. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 1-4). Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
DOI Scopus12020 Abdelaziz, M., Djenidi, L., Hajghayesh, M., & Chin, R. (2020). Turbulent Boundary Layer over various 2D Uniform Distributed Roughness Elements. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 1-4). Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
DOI Scopus12020 Freidoonimehr, N., Arjomandi, M., Zander, A., & Chin, R. (2020). Hemodynamics of stented coronary arteries: Experimental and numerical investigations. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 1-4). Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
DOI2020 Chisholm, C., Nugroho, B., Kevin., & Chin, R. (2020). Hydrodynamic simulation of submarine far field flow. In H. Chanson, & R. Brown (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 4 pages). Perth, WA: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
DOI2020 Ko, B., Liu, S., Fang, Z., Ahmudiarto, Y., Nugroho, B., & Chin, R. (2020). Numerical simulation of two-stages contra-rotating vertical axis wind turbine. In Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2020 (pp. 1-4). Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland.
DOI Scopus12019 Freidoonimehr, N., Chin, R., Zander, A., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). Hemodynamic of a Coronary Artery: a PIV Measurement. In IX Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics (pp. 1). Glenelg, Adelaide. 2019 Chin, R., & Philip, J. (2019). Reynolds number effects on swirling pipe flows. In 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019 (pp. 1-5). online: TSPF. 2019 Ahmudiarto, Y., Romadoni, A. M., Besar Karyanto, T., Admono, T., Nugroho, B., Chin, R. C., & Budiyono, A. (2019). Performance Analysis of Novel Blade Design of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. In Proceeding - 2019 International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering and Application: Innovative Technology Toward Energy Resilience, ICSEEA 2019 (pp. 175-181). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus32018 Albanesi, A., Daish, K., Dally, B., & Chin, R. (2018). Investigation of heat transfer enhancement in dimpled pipe flows. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Scopus142018 Chin, R., & Philip, J. (2018). Low Reynolds number turbulent swirling pipe flows. In T. Lau, & R. Kelso (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Scopus12018 Jelly, T., Chin, R., Illingworth, S., Monty, J., Marusic, I., & Ooi, A. (2018). Quadruple decomposition of current-dominated pulsatile rough-wall turbulent pipe flow. In T. Lau, & R. Kelso (Eds.), 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Freidoonimehr, N., Arjomandi, M., Chin, R., & Zander, A. (2018). Effect of degree of stenosis on the pulsatile flow pressure drop in a coronary artery. In Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2018 Hakim, M., Nugroho, B., Chin, R., Putranto, T., Suastika, I., & Utama, I. (2018). Assessment of drag penalty resulting from the roughness of freshly cleaned and painted ship-hull using computational fluid dynamics. In 11th International Conference on Marine Technology MARTEC 2018 (pp. 1-8). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 2018 Chin, C., Vinuesa, R., Örlü, R., Cardesa, J., Noorani, A., Schlatter, P., & Chong, M. (2018). Flow topology of rare back flow events and critical points in turbulent channels and toroidal pipes. In J. Jimenez (Ed.), Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 1001 (pp. 14 pages). Madrid, Spain: IOP Science.
DOI Scopus10 WoS82018 Zhang, X., & Chin, R. (2018). Numerical study of the effects of velocity ratio on co-flow jet characteristics. In Proceedings of the 21nd Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC2018 (pp. 1-4). Adelaide, Australia: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society.
DOI2016 Chen, X., Chin, R., Hutchins, N., Poon, E., & Ooi, A. (2016). Turbulent pulsatile pipe flow with multiple modes of oscillation. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016) (pp. 1-4). Perth, Western Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Scopus12016 Scheerlinck, C., Mamon, C., Zahtila, T., Nguyen, W., Poon, E., Thondapu, V., . . . Ooi, A. (2016). Effect of Medical Imaging Modalities on the simulated blood flow through a 3D reconstructed stented coronary artery segment. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016) (pp. 1-4). Perth, Western Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2016 Li, S., Chin, R., Monty, J., Barlis, P., & Ooi, A. (2016). Numerical investigations of the wall shear stress behaviour in curved coronary arteries. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016) (pp. 1-4). Perth, Western Australia: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Scopus12015 Chin, C., Monty, J., Hutchins, N., Ooi, A., Orlu, R., & Schlatter, P. (2015). Simulation of a large-eddy-break-up device (LEBU) in a moderate Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9) Vol. 1 (pp. 1A-3-1-1A-3-6). Melbourne, Australia: Technische Universität Darmstadt. 2015 Schlatter, P., Örlü, R., Chin, C., Hutchins, N., & Monty, J. (2015). Large-scale friction control in turbulent wall flow. In 9th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2015 Vol. 3 (pp. 1-4). Online: TSFP-9. 2015 Chin, C., Monty, J., & Ooi, A. (2015). LES of moderate Reynolds number turbulent pipe flows. In Proceedings - 15th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2015. 2015 Chin, C., Monty, J., & Ooi, A. (2015). LES of moderate Reynolds number turbulent pipe flows. In Proceedings - 15th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2015. 2014 Li, S., Chin, C., Monty, J., Barlis, P., Marusic, I., & Ooi, A. (2014). Numerical investigation of the behaviour of wall shear stress in three-dimensional pulsatile stenotic flows. In Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2014 (pp. 1-4). Online: Australian Fluid Mechanics Society. 2012 Chan, L., Chin, C., Soria, J., & Ooi, A. (2012). Numerical simulation of supersonic impinging jet flows using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes and Large Eddy Simulation. In Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2012.
Scopus22010 Chin, R., Hutchins, N., Ooi, A., & Marusic, I. (2010). MODELING OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION EFFECTS USING DNS OF TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOW. In Proc. 8th Intern. ERCOFTAC Symp. on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements. Marseille, France. 2010 Saha, S., Chin, C. C., Blackburn, H. M., & Ooi, A. (2010). Numerical study of heat transfer in a fully developed turbulent pipe flow. In 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference 2010 (pp. 712-715).
Scopus22010 Chin, C., Ooi, A., Marusic, I., & Blackburn, H. M. (2010). The influence of pipe length in direct numerical simulation. In 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference 2010 (pp. 440-443).
Scopus22007 Chin, C. C., Monty, J. P., Ooi, A. S. H., & Marusic, I. (2007). Investigation of velocity correlations in turbulent channel flow. In Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 16AFMC (pp. 1436-1441).
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Conference Items
Year Citation 2021 Zhang, X., Nathan, G. J., Tian, Z. F., & Chin, R. C. (2021). Flow Regimes and Secondary Flow Motions in Horizontal Particle-laden Pipe Flows. Poster session presented at the meeting of The 3rd International Symposium on Computational Particle Technology. Suzhou, China and Online. 2021 Zhang, X., Zonta, F., Tian, Z. F., Nathan, G. J., Chin, R. C., & Soldati, A. (2021). Dynamics of semi- and neutrally-buoyant particles in thermally stratified turbulent channel flow. Poster session presented at the meeting of Euromech. Colloquium 609 Granular Patterns in Oscillatory Flows. Genoa, Italy. 2019 Shaw, I. J., Evans, M., Chin, R., & Medwell, P. (2019). Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Rotating Detonation Engines. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 2019 Australian Combustion Symposium. online: The Combustion Institute. 2019 Zhang, X., Nathan, G., Tian, Z., & Chin, R. (2019). Numerical study of gravity effects on the symmetry and development of particle-laden flows. Poster session presented at the meeting of 17th European Turbulence Conference. Torino, Italy.
- Industry Funding - Blue Spirit Aero (2023)
- Industry Funding - Blue Spirit Aero (2022)
- University of Adelaide ECMS Strategic Impact Grant (2022)
- Industry Funding - SparcTechnologies (2021)
- University of Adelaide ECMS Covid Impact Grant (2022)
- University of Adelaide ECMS MCR Grant (2021)
- ARC DECRA DE180100157, "Impact of spatially uniform and irregular rough surfaces on drag reduction", Australian Government (2018-2021)
- Sir Ross & Sir Keith Smith Fund (2018-2020)
- ARC Linkage Grant LP160101753, "Swirling turbulent pipe flow technology for drying brown coal", Australian Government (2017-2021)
- Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government (2017)
- Early Career Reseracher Grant, University of Melbourne (2016)
- Linne FLOW Centre Visiting Researcher Grant, Sweden (2013)
- Dr John Patterson Prize : best thesis in the field of thermo-fluids (2012)
- Best Tutor Award (2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010)
- Melbourne International Research Scholarship (2007)
- Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (2007)
- ExxonMobil Dean's Honours List (2006)
Aerospace Propulsion, Advanced Topics in Aerospace
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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 Principal Supervisor Investigation of particle size and flow parameters in turbulent particle-laden flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mit Piyush Bakhai 2024 Principal Supervisor Reacting Particle-Laden flows: Application to fluidized-bed combustion Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Muhammad Faizan Younas 2024 Principal Supervisor Investigating the Mechanisms and Characteristics of Rough Wall Turbulence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Song Wang 2023 Principal Supervisor A numerical approach to turbulent transient pipe flow dynamics. Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Isuru Chinthana Gunaratne 2021 Principal Supervisor A Numerical Investigation of Hypersonic Flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Harry Colin Rowton 2021 Principal Supervisor Roughness Induced Drag Mechanism and Control Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Setyo Nugroho 2020 Principal Supervisor Flow control in rough wall turbulence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jiahao Kong -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2023 Co-Supervisor MILD Combustion of Ethylene and Natural Gas Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ian James Shaw 2019 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Near-wall turbulence dynamics in steady and transient pipe flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Byron Andres Guerrero Hinojosa 2019 - 2023 Principal Supervisor On the Effects of Roughness Parameters on Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Misarah Adel Abass Morsy Abdelaziz 2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Nonlinear Mechanics of Hyperelastic Structures Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hossein Bakhshi Khaniki 2019 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Experimental Investigations on Wind Turbine Wake Dynamics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Paul Bayron 2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Passive Flow Control in Spatially Developing Turbulent Boundary Layers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chi Ip Chan 2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Numerical Study of Particle-laden Flows Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xinchen Zhang 2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Hemodynamics of Diseased Coronary Arteries Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Navid Freidoonimehr 2017 - 2018 Co-Supervisor The attenuation of sweep events within the turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate using a micro-cavity array Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Anton Silvestri -
Other Supervision Activities
Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name 2014 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Newtonian and Non-Newtonian pulsatile flow in stenosed arteries The University of Melbourne PhD Doctorate Full Time Shuang Li
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2023 - ongoing Representative Committee IT-038 Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms Standards Australia Australia 2020 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Pawsey Energy & Resource Merit Allocation Committee Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Australia 2017 - ongoing Treasurer AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics United States -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2017 - ongoing Member The Australian Academy of Science Australia 2015 - ongoing Member APS - American Physical Society United States 2007 - ongoing Member AFMS - Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society Australia
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