
I am a Senior Lecturer and researcher at School of Engineering and Technology, UNSW Canberra.
I work on climate-resilient building design including design for extreme environment. My research is interdisciplinary and broadly centered on development of robust, scalable, and adaptive solution techniques for assessing vulnerability and resilience of infrastructure to natural and man-made disasters.
In my research on creating strong and safe communities, I investigate several important topics, including:
I established “Pyrometric Lab” at UNSW with several dedicated flame behaviour testing equipment to unravel the fundamental behaviour of materials exposed to direct and indirect flame and radiative heat transfer. I have also designed and built a modular subsonic combustion wind tunnel for convective heat flow measurement and visualisation at UNSW.
My teams' numerical modeling endeavor is to pursue applied research to advance the state of the art in physics-based simulation on high-performance computing platforms, and to maintain state-of-the-art computational capabilities that can readily be applied to engineering problems of interest in our areas of focus.
My Research Supervision
Current PhDs:
Post Doctoral research fellow:
Honour thesis:
HDR completions (as main supervisor):
Accepting PhD students.
PhD positions are available for highly motivated candidate in mechanical engineering . Knowledge and experience in working with OpenFOAM is highly desirable.
Ideal candidates should have:
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 more than 12 undergraduate and graduate courses, including my current teaching : "Heat transfer and Refrigeration", "Mechanical and Electrical plants ", "Mechanical and Electronic Design" and "Introduction to Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering" at UNSW Canberra
and
veriary of UG and PG courses in my previous roles such as "Environmental monitoring" , "Sustainability and Risk Engineering" , "Sustainable Materials Processing", "Design and Application of Materials in Science and Engineering" , "Advanced waste management" , "Mechanical design" , " Engineering Materials" , "Advanced Thermodynamics", "Structural analysis and design".