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Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
High-fidelity simulations and machine-learning for turbomachinery flows
Team: Richard Sandberg
Simulation of bio-inspired aerofoil noise reduction techniques
Team: Richard Sandberg
Methods to improve maritime energy efficiency
Team: Chris Manzie
A versatile framework for simulating the structure and dynamics of cytoskeletal networks
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Programmable mechanical metamaterials for soft robotics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Materials informatics: an intelligent multiphysics multiscale computational tool for autonomous in-service life management of fibre-reinforced polymer composite aircraft structures
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Soft matter informatics: intelligent computational material simulation tool for polymer-colloid assemblies
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Combustion chemistry of hydrogen-natural gas mixtures
Team: Yi Yang
Decarbonising the transport sector with renewable hydrogen
Team: Yi Yang
Decarbonising transport with ammonia fuels
Team: Yi Yang
Using renewable hydrogen in gas turbines
Team: Yi Yang
Computational fluid dynamics simulations of a stratified gravity current
Team: Andrew Ooi
Computational materials engineering of novel high-temperature materials for turbines
Team: Christian Brandl
Hydrogen embrittlement in alloys
Team: Christian Brandl
Lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip and disease-on-a-chip technologies
Team: David Collins, Vini Gautam
The effect of non-homogeneous roughness on full-scale drag predictions
Team: Nicholas Hutchins, Jason Monty, Kevin Kevin
Turbulent plumes with particles in a stratified environment
Team: Jimmy Philip
Multiscale computational nanofluidics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Soft matter informatics: inverse design engine for block co-polymers
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Computational turbulent fluid flow
Team: Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins
Numerical prediction of bubble sound emissions
Team: Andrew Ooi
Operational Excellence in the fourth industrial revolution era
Team: Guilherme Tortorella
Active matter: a multiscale simulation method for advanced swimmers
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Mechanical response of subchondral bone to fatigue loading
Team: Fatemeh Malekipour, Peter Lee
The cost of roughness: predicting the drag penalty of fouled ship hulls
Team: Nicholas Hutchins, Jason Monty, Bagus Nugroho
Cardiac cell mechanobiology
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Nanoscale computational engineering of interfaces in alloys
Team: Christian Brandl
Interaction of convection and horizontal gyre circulation in the North Atlantic Current
Team: Bishakhdatta Gayen
Melting of Antarctic ice shelves into polar ocean
Team: Bishakhdatta Gayen, Jimmy Philip, Jason Monty
Applying machine-learning approaches to develop novel turbulence models
Team: Richard Sandberg, Andrew Ooi
Acoustic engineering: microfabrication of acoustic waveguides for non-contact microscale assembly
Team: David Collins
An ICME framework for designing sintered materials
Team: Tesfaye Molla
Novel mechanisms for continuous micro/nanoparticle manipulation
Team: David Collins
Turbulent transport in rotating and stratified flows
Team: Joseph Klewicki, Jimmy Philip
Deep interpretable neural networks
Team: Saman Halgamuge
Supercapacitor and battery design through modelling and machine learning
Team: Dan Li
Pattern recognition algorithms for the analysis of metagenomes
Team: Saman Halgamuge
Smart grid optimization using forecasting, multiple renewable technologies and energy storage
Team: Saman Halgamuge, Guillermo Narasilio
Enabling efficient, affordable and robust use of renewable hydrogen in transport and power generation
Team: Michael Brear, Yi Yang, Robert Gordon, Mohsen Talei, Joshua Lacey, Zhewen Lu
Optimization landscapes and evolutionary designs
Team: Saman Halgamuge, Michael Kirley (Computing and Information Systems), Guillermo Narsilio (Infrastructure Engineering)
Experiments and data analysis of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers
Team: Joseph Klewicki, Jimmy Philip, Spencer Zimmerman, Ivan Marusic