SIMPAS Achievements
SIMPAS Achievements
Since 1993, SIMPAS has attracted over $75 M in external research funds to UNSW and Monash University including > 70 grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC). 91 PhD and 30 MEng students have graduated from SIMPAS. Its research collaboration has been made with various industrial organizations including BlueScope Steel, BHP-Billiton, Alcoa, Xstrata, BMA, ACARP, Johnson and Johnson, Minco Technologies, Cement Australia, Rio and many overseas R&D organizations such as Kawasaki Steel (Japan), China Steel (Taiwan), Posco (South Korea), Tata Steel (India), BaoSteel, Long King and Fasten (China); and other universities and research institutes including CSIRO, University of Queensland, Australian National University, University of Leeds (UK), Chinese Academy of Science, Tsinghua Univ. (China), Hunan, Xi'an Jiaotong Universities (China), University of Cambridge and University of Surrey (UK), University of California at Berkeley and Ohio State University (USA), Tohoku and Kyoto Universities, and University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan). Throughout the years, SIMPAS has gradually established its leading position in the main theme research areas and become an internationally recognized research centre through its excellence in fundamental and applied research in particulate science and technology. In May 2014, SIMPAS was relocated from UNSW to Monash University with Prof Aibing Yu.
The overall performance of SIMPAS has been excellent and steady. It has attracted more than $15M research funds including winning the ARC Hub for Computational Particle Technology. It is currently comprised of 23 teaching/ research/ administrative staff and 33 research students, graduated 17 PhD students and published over 100 scholarly books/ book chapters/ journal papers and over 10 conference papers; delivered 6 invited plenary/keynote presentations and over 30 technical presentations at international conferences and is filing for 2 technical patents, hosted >40 overseas visitors in year 2016 and 2017. It has successfully organized the first International Workshop on "Computational Particle Technology and Multiphase Processes" in Suzhou, China (March 2016), which attracted about 100 computational scientists and engineers worldwide (most of the delegators are senior staff in universities). It has also successfully organized "The 6th Australia-China-Japan Joint Symposium on Iron and Steelmaking" (Nov 2016), which attracted a good mix of industrial and academic participants from the three countries (totally 81 representatives attended the symposium).
Simpas has over 1100 publications, many are highly ranked from ISI Web of Science
* note: the total number of papers of the ISI reflect the scale of the research subject area.
Research Topic (used in the ISI search, as at Mar 2017) | Total number of papers collected in ISI | No. of papers authored by Yu | Rank |
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Packing of particles | 21,985 | 142 | 2nd |
Modelling or simulation of particle packing | 9,485 | 127 | 1st |
Discrete element method | 18,602 | 182 | 1st |
Discrete particle simulation | 8,450 | 208 | 1st |
Granular dynamics simulation | 3,837 | 66 | 1st |
Particulate systems | 23,563 | 82 | 1st |
Modelling or simulation of particulate systems | 8,015 | 81 | 1st |
Gas-solid or particle-fluid flow | 4,976 | 103 | 1st |
Blast furnace | 12,556 | 91 | 2nd |
Modelling or simulation of blast furnace | 2,581 | 87 | 2nd |