Professor Assaad Masri
BE, PhD (Sydney)
ARC-Australian Professorial Fellow
School of Aerospace Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
J07 - Mechanical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney
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Clean Combustion Research Group School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering |
Biographical details
Assaad Masri is currently an ARC-Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney and Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand section of the Combustion Institute. He is internationally known as a leading scientist in turbulent combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels and laser diagnostics in combustion. He is on the editorial board of three prestigious journals and a founding member of the International Workshops on Measurements and Computations of Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames (TNF) as well as the International Workshop on Turbulent Combustion of Sprays (TCS). He has published over 150 papers, attracted over eight million dollars of research funding and established one of the most advanced combustion laser diagnostics systems in the world.
Research interests
Professor Assaad Masri leads a team of researchers devising methods for clean combustion technologies, both with current fossil fuels and renewable fuels (such as bio-fuels and biodiesels). This research is contributing towards improving energy conversion efficiencies and reducing the emission of pollutants from engines, industrial furnaces and other combustion devices.
"We have to ensure that while we introduce new fuel alternatives into the market, these fuels can burn efficiently, safely and cleanly in that they do not produce harmful emissions - such as nano-size particles that have negative long term health effects."
Numerous burners designed by Professor Masri are now used by industry as well as academia as international benchmarks for developing and validating advanced predictive methods for combustion. "We aim to transform combustion science to facilitate the optimisation of combustors by design engineers."
"Our research methods use the latest numerical tools in conjunction with state-of-the-art experimental laser-based techniques to probe the flows. We work with laboratory flame as well as engines but we are also researching methods to develop micro-combustors that can be used for micro-power generation."
Current projects
- Ignition and combustion of bio-fuels and biodiesels
- Atomization characteristics of sprays
- Turbulent combustion: non-premixed, premixed and stratified
- Combustion safety
- Micro-combustion
Associations
- Member of the Combustion Institute
Awards and honours
- Silver Combustion Medal of The Combustion Institute
- Editorial Board of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Combustion Theory and Modeling
Selected grants
2013
- Investigations of the atomisation and turbulent combustion of biodiesels; Masri A, Dunn M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Controlled radiation facility to investigate turbulence-radiation-chemistry interactions in high-flux solar reactors; Nathan G, Masri A, Cleary M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2012
- PIV-400 from LE0883111 (additional funding resulting from a refund); Masri A.
2011
- Multi-Dimensional, High-Speed Laser Imaging Facility for Fluids and Combustion; Masri A, Nathan G, Hawkes E, Dally B, Alwahabi Z, Kook S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
- Towards a Unified View of Clean Turbulent Combustion; Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2010
- Development of Very High-Order Accurate ILES Methods for Turbulent Lean Premixed Combustion; Masri A, Thornber B; DVC Research/International Visiting Research Fellowship (IVRF).
- Strongly Transient Processes in Turbulent Combustion; Masri A, Bilger R, Mastorakos E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2008
- A Laser Facility for Imaging the Time Evolution of Scalars in Turbulent Flows; Moghtaderi B, Masri A, Nathan G, Langrish T, Dally B, King K, Alwahabi Z; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
- Investigations of Surface-Gas Reactions and Mixing in Micro-combustion; Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
- A Laser Facility for Imaging the Time Evolution of Scalars in Turbulent Flows; Masri A, Dally, B, King K, Alwahabi Z, Nathan G, Moghtaderi B, Langrish T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2007
- Finite Rate Chemistry Effects in Turbulent Combustion; Masri A, Bilger R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery.
- Optimisation of heat transfer in a furnace heating (or cooling) metal strips; Masri A, Fitch M; Fitch Engineering Pty Ltd/Research Grant.
2005
- Flow Diagnostics Facility for Microstructured Systems; Wiley D, Masri A, Fletcher D, Leonardi E, Maschmeyer T, Zhang L, See H, Haynes B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/LIEF.
- Innovative research in gaseous and spray combustion; Bilger R, Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2003
- Advanced Studies of Turbulent Combustion: Premixed to Nonpremixed; Bilger R, Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2002
- Advanced Laser Diagnostics in Dilute Heterogeneous Combustion; Alwahabi Z, Mackie J, Wall T, Kent J, Masri A, Haynes B, Moghtaderi B, Nathan G, Dally, B; Australian Research Council (ARC)/LIEF.
- The role of residence time in determining the effectiveness of flame suppressants.; Masri A; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Research & Development.
- An advanced study of turbulent nonpremixed combustion; Masri A; University of Sydney (Sesqui)/Bridging Support.
2001
- A study of Turbulent Unsteady Premixed Combustion; Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Earlier schemes: Large Grants.
2000
- Mixing and combustion in dilute sprays; Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
- Investigations of Swirling Jets and Flames; Masri A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
Selected publications
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