STAFF PROFILE
Professor Gary Rosengarten
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering
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
- Adibpour, S.,Raisi, A.,Ghasemi, B.,Sajadi, A.,Rosengarten, G. (2021). Experimental investigation of the performance of a sun tracking photovoltaic panel with Phase Change Material In: Renewable Energy, 165, 321 - 333
- Bafkar, O.,Rosengarten, G.,Patel, M.,Lester, D.,Calmet, H.,Nguyen, V.,Gulizia, S.,Cole, I. (2021). Effect of inhalation on oropharynx collapse via flow visualisation In: Journal of Biomechanics, 118, 1 - 11
- 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
- Zhang, B.,Yang, H.,Warner, T.,Mulvaney, P.,Rosengarten, G.,Wong, W.,Ghiggino, K. (2020). A luminescent solar concentrator ray tracing simulator with a graphical user interface: Features and applications In: Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, 8, 1 - 10
- Khan, I.,Castelletto, S.,Rosengarten, G. (2020). A novel hexagonal beam steering electrowetting device for solar energy concentration In: Micromachines, 11, 1 - 15
- 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
- Opportunity Assessment: B3 Electrification and renewables to displace fossil fuel process heating. Funded by: Race for 2030 Limited CRC - Competitive from (2021 to 2021)
- 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)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
12 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions13 PhD Completions
Heat transfer, Solar energy, Microtechnology, Nanotechnology, Microfluidies