Dr. Graham Dorrington
Details
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: Bundoora East Australia
graham.dorrington@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0003-4603-9317
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Current Research foci:
Chief/Lead-Principal Investigator for "ALEPH-1" project and "Roo-ver" project
For more information please see: M2MIST
For my publications, please see: M2MIST research group publications
Academic Qualifications:
BSc (Eng), Aeronautics and Astronautics, first class (Hons) Deparmental Prize, University of Southampton, UK, 1983.
Part III Maths Tripos, Department Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMPT) Cambridge, 1984.
Alumnus, International Space University, held at MIT, USA, 1988.
PhD, University of Cambridge (King's College), UK, 1989.
Industry Employment:
Previous employer examples include: European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC) Noordwijk (the Netherlands); British Aerospace (Space and Communications. Div); Queen Mary, University of London (UK).
Formerly: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, ESA Research Fellow
Media experience:
Graham Dorrington has participated in several documentaries:
The White Diamond (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435776/)
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies (IMDb) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046932/)
Other Accomplishments:
Designed, built and flew two ultra-light (battery-electric motor powered) airships over tropical rain forest, Sabah (1995), Guyana (2004).
Supervisor projects
- Design of FC-Based Propulsion Systems for Aircraft
- 1 Feb 2023
- Evaluation and Optimisation of Dual Role Electrical Drive and Regeneration Propellers
- 10 Oct 2022
- Control of regenerative electric power trains of small aircraft in-flight tests (COREPIT)
- 30 Oct 2020
- Design Optimisation of Downscaled Cusped Field Thruster
- 1 Mar 2018
- Effect of Air-Assisted Turbulent Jet Ignition (AAC-TJI) on Natural Gas Engine Performance
- 1 Mar 2017
- Smart Tuft Sensors for Measuring Flow Speed and Turbulence
- 1 Aug 2016
- The composition and generation of open-wheel racing car wakes
- 29 Oct 2013
- Drift ratchets as biomimetic filters
- 4 Mar 2013
Teaching interests
Performance prediction and design synthesis of aerospace vehicles and systems, especially lighter-than-air aircraft (including airship flight testing), space launchers, and sustainable energy systems.
Aerospace Propulsion
Research interests
Aerospace Engineering, Other Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Transportation and Freight Services, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Other Biological Sciences
Main present research interests: lighter-than-air aircraft technology and flight (performance) analysis; aerospace propulsion systems.
Other interests: aerobiology, biological flight, astrobiology
I am interested in supervising PhD students in all areas of spacecraft design, space exploration, aerospace design, flight performance analysis and flight dynamics, including natural flight and bio-inspired systems.
Previous awards: AMSI Aerochute Pty Ltd project.. Moon-to-Mars Trailblazer Stage 1 project.
Other research-related project websites: Dendronautics.(http://www.dendronautics.com/)
