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Dr Maryam Ghodrat
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2014)
- Master of Engineering ,University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2010)
Dr Maryam Ghodrat is a Senior Lecturer and leader of two research teams Heat Transfer and Combustion and Adaptive Design for Resilient Infrastructure at School of Engineering and Technology, UNSW Canberra. Her research is interdisciplinary and broadly focused on development of robust, scalable, and adaptive solution techniques for computational fluid dynamics, error estimation, parallel computation and design under uncertainty.
As for experimental research, Dr Ghodrat established and leads Pyrometric Laboratory at UNSW with several dedicated flame behaviour testing equipment to unravel the fundamental behaviour of materials, products and systems exposed to direct and indirect flame. She has also designed and built a modular subsonic combustion wind tunnel for visualisation of flame propagation at UNSW.
Dr Ghodrats' research also focuses on the development of accurate physical and CFD models to advance new energy technologies for renewable fuels such as hydrogen and biomass.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- School of Engineering and Technology Publication award for outstanding research outcome in 2022.
- Recognized as one of the top 2% of highly cited research scientists in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier (2023).
- Goldstar award for 2022, ARC-DP placed top 10%
- Best Paper Award, International Conference of Flow Dynamics (ICFD) conference, 2023
- People choice award for my pitch on "Pyrometric Lab" , UNSW Pitch Night, 2023
- Researcher Development Awards for gender equity (WSU)
- UNSW Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) Conference Travel Grant
- University Industry Postgraduate Award, the University of New South Wales
Current research activities cover three broad and interdisciplinary fields :
Design for Extreme Environment
- Application of data assimilation to risk and disaster management.
- Fire Safety and Smart Building
- Infrastructure and community resilience
- Fire modeling including CFD and zone modeling;
- Wind Engineering
Numerical simulation (CFD modeling)
- Solution Verification
- Mesh Adaptation
- Shape Optimization
- Code coupling
- High-performance computing
Emissions and pollution Transport Physics
- Numerical models in predicting atmospheric dispersion of pollutant.
- Computational Fluid dynamic simulation of plume dispersion in Urban areas
Decarbonization of Energy Sector
Focused on application of CFD modeling and thermodynamic analysis in design and optimization of energy-efficient technologies
- Hybrid renewable energy systems for net zero energy buildings (Thermodynamic analysis)
- Co gasification of biomass and EVA from end of life solar panels (Numerical modeling and thermodynamic analysis)
- Thermodynamic analysis of multi generation power system based on Hybrid renewable energy configurations
- Executive committee of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ)
- Scientific committee member of 5th International Conference on Fluid Flow and Thermal Science (ICFFTS 2024), Portugal
- Scientific committee member of International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering Research and Practice (iCFSERP-2024)
- Scientific committee member of 5th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering (2023, Sydney AUS)
- Scientific committee member of Australian Combustion Symposium, 2023, Darwin, NT
- Scientific committee member of Australian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Sydney, 2023
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Mentor in International Association of Wildland Fire
In the Media:
New 'fire lab' to help researchers develop better flame-resistant products (unsw.edu.au)
Warman returns to UNSW Canberra
Memberships
Member of :
- Australian Fluid Mechanics
- International association for fire safety science
- International Association of Wildland Fire
- Combustion Institute
- Australian Institute of Energy
- Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC)
- Woman in Science and Engineering (WisE)
- Science & Technology Australia
- Women in Engineering @ UNSW
My Research Supervision
PhDs currently supervising:
- Mostafa Ali (Main supervisor)
- Osman Eissa (Main supervisor)
- Mahmoud Wally (Main supervisor)
- Amir Hossein Sabouri Shirazi (Main supervisor)
- Mojtaba Ajorloo (Main supervisor)
- Mohamad Sadeghi (Joint Supervisor)
- Ali Edalati Nejad (Joint Supervisor)
Honour thesis as Main supervisor:
- Elise Kate Swann
- Rohnan Scott
- Matthew Hordern
- Jonathan Lu
- Philip L. Davies
Post Doctoral research fellow:
- Dr Ao Li (current)
- Dr Anan Du (past)
HDR completions (as main supervisor):
- Juan Alonso
- Alvaro Alvarez
- Nirosh Nuwan Nammuni
- Olaoluwa Daniel Dawodu
Accepting PhD students.
PhD positions are available for highly motivated candidate in materials , civil or mechanical engineering . Knowledge and experience in working with OpenFOAM software is highly desirable.
Ideal candidates should have:
- A four-year Bachelor's and two-years MSc degrees with high WAMs (minimum of 87%) and research experience from top institutions in the field of Mechanical or civil engineering
- A track record of publications in top-ranked scholarly journals and presentations in peer-reviewed conferences; and,
- Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills in English.
If you are interested in doing a PhD in my group , please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts and English Test Results to m.ghodrat@unsw.edu.au
My Teaching
I have taught in over 12 undergraduate and graduate courses, currently at UNSW and in previous academic roles at other universities