Gary Rosengarten

Professor Gary Rosengarten

Director, Enabling Impact Platforms (Sustainable Technologies and Systems)

Details

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:
- Thermal Storage
- Energy Demand Management
- Thermal management of batteries and data centers
- Droplet and sprays for high flux cooling

- Solar Energy

Biomedical Devices and  Microfluidics:
- Understanding and detecting blood clotting
- Treatment of atherosclerosis using microneedle drug delivery

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

  • Developing Solutions for Wastewater Heat Recovery in Australian Food Processing and Production
  • 13 May 2025
  • High-flux cooling using optimised spray systems
  • 7 Mar 2025
  • Drug delivery through balloon catheters with microneedles
  • 28 Feb 2025
  • Design and analysis of a spray cooled thermal management system for sustainable data center cooling
  • 21 Jan 2025
  • Thermal Management of Green Hydrogen Generation System
  • 12 Dec 2024
  • 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
  • Simulation of Fluid Flow and Thermal Transport in Droplet Impingement
  • 28 Jul 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
  • 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
  • A Numerical Study of Particle Collision Dynamics and Charge Transfer in Microchannel Suspension Flows
  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Ferrofluid Under Magnetic Fields
  • 29 Mar 2021
  • Quantitative Prediction of Incomplete Mixing in Transient Poroelastic 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
  • Evaporation of Sessile Droplets: Effects of Substrate Thermal Conductivity and Droplet Shape Under Natural and Forced Convection
  • 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, Thermal Systems

Research interests

Heat transfer, Energy, Heat Pumps, Microfluidics, Optical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy

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