Rey Chin

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.


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#

 

  • 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

  • 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 Full 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
    2019 Principal Supervisor Experimental Study of Wind Turbines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Paul Bayron
  • 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
    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
  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 83135471
  • Email: rey.chin@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Engineering South, floor 3
  • Org Unit: Mechanical Engineering

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