Professor Gary Rosengarten
ECP Director, Sustainable Technologies and Systems
Details
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College: Research & Innovation Capability
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Department: Research & Innovation Capability
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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gary.rosengarten@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1327-5321
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Research overview:
I lead the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems (LIFTS) that 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 Energy
- Thermal Storage
- Energy Demand Management
- Thermal management of batteries and data centers
- Droplet and sprays for high flux cooling
Biomedical Devices:
- Understanding and detecting blood clotting
- Treatment of atherosclerosis using microneedle drug delivery
- Upper airway air flow devices
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
I lead the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems (LIFTS) that 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 Energy
- Thermal Storage
- Energy Demand Management
- Thermal management of batteries and data centers
- Droplet and sprays for high flux cooling
Biomedical Devices:
- Understanding and detecting blood clotting
- Treatment of atherosclerosis using microneedle drug delivery
- Upper airway air flow devices
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
Academic positions
- Director, Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 3 Jan 2022 – Present
- Adjunct Professor
- UNSW Sydney
- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Sydney, Australia
- 2012 – Present
- Professor
- RMIT University
- School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2012 – Present
- Senior Lecturer- Associate Professor
- UNSW Sydney
- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Sydney, Australia
- 2006 – 2011
- Senior Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 – 2006
- Research Fellow
- University of Melbourne
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2003 – 2004
- Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2002 – 2003
Non-academic positions
- State Manager
- Bassett Applied Research
- , Australia
- 2000 – 2002
- Experimental Scientist
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Applied Physics
- Canberra, Australia
- 1994 – 1996
Supervisor projects
- Novel Thermal Storage
- 10 Mar 2024
- Creation of New Thermoelectric Porous Materials and Systems
- 19 Dec 2023
- Chaotic Mixing in Porous Materials
- 1 Aug 2023
- The fluid mechanics of droplet transport from humans
- 28 Jul 2023
- Drug delivery through balloon catheters with microneedles
- 5 Apr 2023
- ENDEAVOUR – Enhancing Network Demand Efficiency with Active Variation of Occupants' energy Use Response.
- 3 Apr 2023
- Experimental investigation of high-temperature thermal storage with recycled materials
- 21 Dec 2022
- Infant thermal environments: materials systems and functional design
- 13 Dec 2022
- Maximising renewable energy for water corporations through machine learning, peer-to-peer trading, and demand management
- 30 Nov 2022
- Thermal conductivity improvement of PCMs for thermal storage applications
- 8 Aug 2022
- Automatic Blood Clot Detection for Extracorporeal Life Support Systems (ECMO Machines)
- 11 Apr 2022
- Enhanced thermo-electric conversion through nano-structured materials
- 9 Feb 2022
- Multiphase flow for hydrogen storage
- 13 Apr 2021
- Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Ferrofluid Under Magnetic Fields
- 29 Mar 2021
- Quantitative Prediction of Incomplete Mixing in Subsurface Flows
- 9 Sep 2020
- Storage of Hydrogen in Multilayer Graphene
- 18 Jun 2020
- Decentralised Thermal Storage to Stabilise Electrical Distribution Networks
- 20 Feb 2020
- Dispersion and Alignment of Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Luminescent Solar Concentrators
- 19 Dec 2019
- Ultra-high heat flux cooling using nanostructured surfaces
- 18 Nov 2019
- Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Slurry Electrodes
- 29 Oct 2019
- Electrification of Residential Heating, Cooling and Hot Water Supply – Load Smoothing Using Onsite Photovoltaics, Heat Pump and Thermal Batteries
- 2 Jan 2019
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Analyses for Droplet and Spray Impingement
- 9 Nov 2018
- Study of Airflow Phenomena in the Human Respiratory System. Prediction of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea via Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structural Mechanics, and Fluid-Structure Interaction Techniques
- 13 Sep 2017
- Colloidal Suspension Rheology Under Shear and Compression
- 6 Apr 2017
- Heat Transfer Enhancement in Microchannels using Magnetic Two-Phase Liquid-Liquid Plug Flow
- 29 Feb 2016
- Investigating Mass Flow in Copper Foam
- 25 Aug 2014
- Non-imaging technologies for designing a hybrid photovoltaic and solar thermal collector
- 3 Mar 2014
- Beam Steering Electrowetting Device for Solar Energy Concentration
- 14 Mar 2013
- Direct Transfer of Solar Radiation from Concentrated Solar Collectors to Localised High-flux Applications
- 4 Mar 2013
- Drift ratchets as biomimetic filters
- 4 Mar 2013
Teaching interests
Heat transfer, Solar energy, Microtechnology, Thermal Systems
Research interests
Mechanical Engineering, Energy, Heat Pumps, Microfluidics, Optical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Heat transfer
