Research staff

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – Research staff

Mr. Joel Smithard

Senior Research Officer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Joel.Smithard@monash.edu

Clayton Campus.

Dr. Thomas Albrecht

Research Fellow at Monash University.

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Thomas.Albrecht@monash.edu

Clayton

Research Interests:

Thomas' research interests are in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Rotating Flows, Instability and Transition to Turbulence, Boundary Layers and Optical Flow Measurement.

Mr. John Baker

Research staff Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

John.Baker@monash.edu

+61 3 990 53662

Room 127, 37, Clayton Campus.

Research Interests:

John's Research Interests are in, Crack growth rates in ferrous and non-ferrous materials, Structural integrity of air vehicles, Airworthiness and airworthiness regulation, Composite repairs to steel structures and Rail rolling stock lifting, fatigue spectra and data gathering to extract fatigue spectra.

Dr. Daniel Duke

Research Fellow

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

daniel.duke@monash.edu

+61 3 9905 6139

17 College Walk, Room 115A

Research Interests:

Daniel's expertise is in turbulent multi-phase fluid flows. Specifically; cavitation, sprays, aerosols and particle formation. He specialises in the application of synchrotron x-ray diagnostics, optical diagnostics, and high performance computing tools to these problems. Application areas include pharmaceutical sprays and fuel injection sprays.