May 2021 Update
Exciting news! James has submitted his Thesis!
Well done James!
This thesis is for James’ Masters by Research and discusses his experimental investigations of nasal sprays and airflow within the nasal cavity. Not only does it contain interesting findings on these subjects but provides a generous amount of CFD benchmark data! Once approved, his thesis will be publicly available. ETA June 2021 – Watch this space!
January 2021
January 2021 – Welcome Jake Emmerling, Patrick Warfield-McAlpine!
September 2020 Update
Well done Kendra Shrestha on your first publication with the group! We’re all proud and happy for you.
Primary break-up and atomization characteristics of a nasal spray – PloS one 15 (8), e0236063
Our lockdown monthly meeting in ‘Together Mode’
sneeze particle animation
May 12th 2020
Recent outcomes, well done everyone!
- J Siu, K Inthavong, Y Shang, S Vahaji, RG Douglas (2020) Aerodynamic impact of total inferior turbinectomy versus inferior turbinoplasty-a computational fluid dynamics study. Rhinology
- K Inthavong (2020) From indoor exposure to inhaled particle deposition: A multiphase journey of inhaled particles. Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow 2 (2), 59-78
And during this time when we are working from home we can get more computer modelling finished like this:
Updates 2019
August 19th 2019
Kiao is presenting “Mapping the mucosal surface coverage from nasal irrigation” at ANZRS2019 in Melbourne 20-22 September 2019. Good luck Kiao! https://anzrs.consec.com.au/program.html?date=all
June 24th 2019
Welcome Kendra Shesthra, James Van Strien 🙂
November 9th 2018
SCONA & RMIT Biomedical Health Innovations Workshop
Research Topics
We use laser imaging techniques such as PIV, LDA, and PDPA, combined with high speed filming to obtain detailed images of fluid-particle systems. For example high speed filming was used to capture a spray atomization to capture the averaged droplet diameters. We have also introduced a new visualisation technique to look at wake flows from moving objects. These results are used as basis for further detailed analysis using CFD techniques