Professor Guan Yeoh

Professor Guan Heng Yeoh is from Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD                     Mechanical Engineering (Computational Fluid Dynamics), University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993

BEng                   Honours Class 1 (Mechanical Engineering), University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988

EMPLOYMENT

2016 to present    Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales,Sydney

2014 to present    Principal Research Scientist and Leader of Thermal-Hydraulics, Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Sydney

2016 to present    Adjunct Professor, Institute of Refrigeration and Cyrogenics, Zhejiang University, China

2017 to present    Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth

2014 to 2016        Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth  

2009-2015            Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales,Sydney

2009–2013           External Academic Adviser, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, China

1999–2013           Senior Research Scientist and Leader of Thermal-Hydraulics, Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Sydney

1996–1998           Research Scientist, Commonwealth Science Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney

1993–1995           Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Commonwealth Science Industry Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney

AWARDS

• Candidature nomination for the ENI Award 2014 in Energy and Environment
• Elsevier Reviewer Excellence Award in 2013
• Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE, UK) Awards: Brennan Medal for the best book publication in 2009
• ANSTO Awards: Recognition for excellence in literature publication and Editor of Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows
• RMIT Research Awards: ARC Discovery Grant titled “Development of Mechanistic Models for Bubbly Flow with Heat and Mass Transfer” from RMIT University, Melbourne
• RMIT Research Awards: ARC Special Research Initiatives E-Research in the “Development an E-Platform for Application of Clinical Management in the Human Respiratory and Vascular System” from RMIT University, Melbourne
• NASA Awards: Novel and innovative research work in solidification for the manufacturing of electronic components in microgravity environment. An extended abstract titled “Thermal Convection Affects Shape of Solid/Liquid Interface” published in NASA Technical Brief 1992

HONOURS

• Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University, China
• Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Visiting Senior Research Fellow,University of Hong Kong, China
• Visiting Thermal-Hydraulics Engineer, INVAP, Argentina
• Visiting Research Fellow, Building Research Institute, Japan
• Scientific Committee Member, Asia-Oceania Association for Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering
• Scientific Committee Member, Australian Nuclear Association
• Member, Mechanical College Board, Engineers Australia 
• Vice-President and Co-organiser, Conference on Building Energy Environment (COBEE) 2018, Melbourne, Australia
• Chairman and Co-organiser, 8^th International Conference on Performance-based Fire and Fire Protection Engineering, 2017, Nanjing, China 
• Session Chair, CFD4NRS-6, 2016, MIT Cambridge, USA
• Scientific Committee Member, CFD4NRS-5, 2014, Application of CFD/CMFD Codes to Nuclear Reactor Safety and Design and their Experimental Validation
• Session Chair, CFD4NRS-4, 2012, Seoul, South Korea
• Session Chair and Co-chair, NURETH14, 2011,Toronto, Canada
• Co-organiser with NSW Fire Brigade, International Workshop of Flame Retardant Materials, 2011,Sydney, Australia
• Session Co-chair, NURETH13, 2009, Kanazawa, Japan
• Distinguish Speaker, 3^rd PhD Student Workshop at University Science of Technology China (USTC), 2009, Suzhou, China
• Invited Speaker, HKIE Fire Division, 10th Annual Symposium, 2018, Hong Kong, China 
• Invited Speaker, International Forum on the Frontier of Fire Safety Science and Technology, 2014, Hefei, China
• Invited Speaker, APACM & ICACM, 2013, Singapore
• Invited Speaker, Workshop on Buildings, Indoor Air, Energy and Sustainability, 2011, Melbourne, Australia
• Invited Speaker, ANS Special Session “Interfacial Area Transport”, 2010, Las Vegas, USA
• Keynote Speaker, Future Energy Conference, 2014, Sydney, Australia
• Keynote Speaker, ANSYS Australasian User Conference, 2008, Sydney, Australia
• Keynote Speaker, CTAC Workshop, 2004, Melbourne, Australia 
• Keynote Speaker, 3^rd International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, 2003, Melbourne, Australia
• Plenary Speaker, 8^th International Conference on Performance-based Fire and Fire Protection Engineering, 2017, Nanjing, China
• Plenary Speaker, 7^th International Conference on Performance-based Fire and Fire Protection Engineering, 2015, Guanzhou, China
• Plenary Speaker, 1^st Asia-Ocenania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering, 2015, Suzhou, China

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS 

• Director, Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies
• Expert Panel for designing and constructing fire-proof high-rise structures held at Australian Smart Skyscrapers Summit in June 2018
• Expert Witness for 2 international patent court cases on membrane technology held at the Federal Court of Australia in Nov 2014
• Assisted in the criminal investigation of the nursing home fire in Quakers Hill, NSW. Working alongside with NSW Police and Fire and Rescue NSW
• Assisted in the coroner investigation of the apartment fire in Bankstown, NSW. Working alongside with Fire and Rescue NSW
• Sitting member in the Fire Research Advisory Committee – consists of UNSW, UTS, CSU, NSW Fire Brigade, Office of Fair Trading, Insurance Council Australia, Fire Protection Association Australia, State Coroners Office and CEDU
• Participated in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated Research Projects (CRP) benchmarking of thermal-hydraulic computational fluid dynamics and reactor system codes
• Participated in the design and commissioning of the Open Pool Australian Lighwater (OPAL) research reactor at ANSTO
• Coordinator for Group Eight Engineering Deans and Associates Examiners Pilot Project to implement an external examiner process that would provide external moderation and benchmarking assessment of undergraduate engineering degree programmes

EDITORSHIP

Founder and Editor, Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows, SAGE, UK; Publishing quarterly issues; the first issue was launched in the beginning in February 2009. The journal is currently indexed in Scopus and EI Compendex. It is now listed in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2012 Journal list. Field of Research (FoR): Interdisciplinary Engineering and Computation Theory and Mathematics

Editor, Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, UK; Publishing three issues per year. The journal is currently indexed in Emerging Source Citation Index and Scopus 

Editor, Handbook of Multiphase Flow Science and Technology, Springer Science, 2017

Lead Guest Editor, Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Special Issues - Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Its Applications, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011 and 2012

Lead Guest Editor, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Special Issue – Multiphase Flow System with Suspended Particles, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013

Lead Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue – Nanofluids and Their Applications, MDPI, 2018 and 2019

Editor and Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Applied Sciences,  MDPI 

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow, Springer Nature and Tsing Hua University 

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Open Thermodynamics Journal, Bentham Science Publishers

Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Bentham Science Publishers