STAFF PROFILE
Professor Gary Rosengarten
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
Phone:
99258020
Email:
gary.rosengarten@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research overview
My group focuses on fundamental and applied transport phenomena (heat and fluid flow) from the macro to the micro and nano scales with two main themes.
Energy
- Solar Thermal Energy: various fundamental and industry lead projects
- Interface effects on liquid/solid heat transfer
- Heat transfer and mixing enhancement using micro synthetic jets and two phase flow in microchannels
Biotechnology
- Biomimetics: Diatom pore structure as a model nano-pore membrane
- Stem cell bioreactor design and fluid force effects on cells
- Fluid structure interactions in the upper airway to understand sleep apnea
Awards
- 1997 Energy Research and Development Corporation Postgraduate Award
- 1999 French Government Scientific Fellowship
- 2000 Australian Institute of Energy Postgraduate Student Award, 2000: Best Solar and Wind Research Energy Project
- 2000 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Solar Energy Division Inaugural Graduate Student Award
- 2002 Churchill Fellowship
- 2002 Victoria Fellowship
Heat Transfer, Solar Energy, Microfluidics and Nanotechnology
- Bachelor of Science (Honours): Physics, Monash University
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours): Mechanical Engineering, Monash University
- PhD: The University of New South Wales
- 1994-1996 Experimental Scientist, CSIRO Division of Applied Physics
- 2000-2002 State Manager, Bassett Applied Research
- 2002-2003 Research Fellow, RMIT University
- 2003-2004 Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
- 2005- 2006 Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
- 2006-2011 Senior Lecturer- Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales
- 2012- Adjunct Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales
- 2012- Professor, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University
- Bafkar, O.,Cajas, J.,Calmet, H.,Houzeaux, G.,Rosengarten, G.,Lester, D.,Nguyen, V.,Gulizia, S.,Cole, I. (2020). Impact of sleeping position, gravitational force & effective tissue stiffness on obstructive sleep apnoea In: Journal of Biomechanics, 104, 1 - 11
- Khan, K.,Castelletto, S.,Rosengarten, G. (2020). Two-axis electrowetting liquid lens for beam steering In: Proceedings of SPIE Volume 11486 - Laser Beam Shaping XX, California, United States, 24 August- 4 September 2020
- Pintaldi, S.,Li, J.,Sethuvenkatraman, S.,White, S.,Rosengarten, G. (2019). Model predictive control of a high efficiency solar thermal cooling system with thermal storage In: Energy and Buildings, 196, 214 - 226
- Herringer, J.,Lester, D.,Dorrington, G.,Rosengarten, G. (2019). Can diatom girdle band pores act as a hydrodynamic viral defense mechanism? In: Journal of Biological Physics, 45, 213 - 234
- Sielaff, A.,Gowik, M.,V�lzel, C.,Rosengarten, G.,Rajic, N.,Stephan, P. (2019). Temperature measurement using infrared thermometry within semi-transparent media In: Experimental Heat Transfer, 32, 545 - 565
- GAN JIA GUI, N.,Stanley, C.,Nguyen, N.,Rosengarten, G. (2018). Ferrofluidic plug flow heat transfer enhancement In: International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, 6, 291 - 302
- Mojiri, A.,Grbac, N.,Bourke, B.,Rosengarten, G. (2018). D-mannitol for medium temperature thermal energy storage In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 176, 150 - 156
- Gui, N.,Xu, W.,Tian, J.,Rosengarten, G.,Brandt, M.,Qian, M. (2018). Fabrication and anisotropic wettability of titanium-coated microgrooves In: Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 1 - 8
- GAN JIA GUI, N.,Stanley, C.,Nguyen, N.,Rosengarten, G. (2018). Ferrofluids for heat transfer enhancement under an external magnetic field In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 123, 110 - 121
- Khan, I.,Castelletto, S.,Rosengarten, G. (2018). Deposition method and performance of SiO2 as a dielectric material for beam steering electrowetting devices In: Materials Research Express, 5, 1 - 8
- A proton flow reactor system for large-scale electrical energy storage and bulk export of hydrogenated carbon based material. Funded by: 073-Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) R&D Grants 2018 onwards from (2018 to 2021)
- Spectroscopy and Imaging Platform for Photoactive Materials (Administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2018)
- Integrated Cooling Enhancement Technology for Power Electronics - Administered by Griffith University. Funded by: ARC Linkage Projects via Other University 2015 from (2016 to 2019)
- Fluorescence and Internal reflection system to develop lab-on-chip devices - Administered by Monash University. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) 2016 from (2016 to 2017)
- Micro Urban Solar Integrated Concentrators (MUSIC). Funded by: ARENA ASI R and D Grant Round 1-3 2014 from (2013 to 2019)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
12 PhD Current Supervisions13 PhD Completions
Heat transfer, Solar energy, Microtechnology, Nanotechnology, Microfluidies