School of Mechanical Engineering

Project Titles

Feasibility study of the airborne wind energy
Supervisor: Dr Maziar Arjomandi

Feasibility study of the application of oscillating water column based wave energy plant for desalination
Supervisor: Dr Maziar Arjomandi

Flow visualisation in a vortex tube with incompressible fluide
Supervisor: Dr Maziar Arjomandi

Development and testing novel systems for target tracking and pursuit based in inect vision
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ben Cazzolato, Professor David O'Carroll and Dr Steve Wiederman

Autonomous flying bird
Supervisor: Dr Ley Chen

UAV with a bio-inspired vision
Supervisor: Dr Ley Chen

4WD Omniwheel robot design
Supervisor: Dr Ley Chen

Fatigue crack growth prediction and self-repair
Supervisors: Dr John Codrington and Dr Andrei Kotousov

Investigation of aero-thermo-elasticity phenomena at hypersonic velocities
Supervisors: Dr John Codrington, Associate Professor Andrei Kotousov and Dr Sook-Ying Ho (DSTO)

Investigation of fracture behaviour of human bones and development of a structural framework for new treatments of bone ageing and bone diseases
Supervisors: Dr John Codrington, Associate Professor Andrei Kotousov and Professor Nick Fazzalari (SA Pathology)

Wind, water and waves: how do the sounds of the city and beach differ from the country and do wind turbines really make you sick?
Supervisor: Dr Con Doolan

Upgrade of environmental corrosive cell in tensile testing apparatus
Supervisor: Dr Erwin Gamboa

Testing of an autonomous solar powerd UAV
Supervisors: Associate Professor Eric Hu and Dr Ley Chen

Increasing solar panel efficiency through green roof technology
Supervisors: Associate Professor Eric Hu and Dr Ley Chen

Mathematical and numerical modelling of welding
Supervisors: Associate Professor Andrei Kotousov and Associate Professor Reza Ghomashchi

Development of new gas/oil recovery methods and environmental technologies based on hydraulic fracturing
Supervisors: Associate Professor Andrei Kotousov and Professor Pavel Bedrikovetsky

Investigation of lofted flames under heated and diluted oxidant stream conditions
Supervisor: Dr Paul Medwell

Design and build a portable gas analyser
Supervisor: Dr Paul Medwell