Associate Professor Howard See

Associate Professor
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9351 3832
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Director of the Micro-structured Fluids Research Group

Education

BSc (Applied Mathematics), University of Sydney, Australia, 1984
BE (Mechanical Engineering, First Class Honours, University Medal), University of Sydney, Australia, 1986

MSc (Physics), Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, 1990

PhD (Engineering), Nagoya University, Japan, 1993

Affiliations and Memberships

Member of Australian Society of Rheology
Member of Society of Rheology (USA)
Member of Society of Rheology Japan

(2001 winner of the Society of Rheology Japan Shourei (“Encouragement”) Award [annual award to outstanding rheology researcher under 40 years of age)

Research Interests

Rheology and microstructure in colloidal suspensions

“Smart fluids” : Electro-rheological fluids and magneto-rheological suspensions

Flow and microstructure

Academic Profile

Editorial Board, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal (2008-)

Regional Editor, Journal of Society of Rheology Japan (2001-)

School’s Director of Undergraduate Studies (2005-)

U2000 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1998 - 2001), School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia

Japanese Government Science and Technology Agency Research Fellowship (May-June 2000)

Science & Technology Agency (Japan) Research Fellowship; Visiting Fellow at National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (Tsukuba, Japan) 2000

Research Engineer (1993 - 1997), Research & Development Division, Bridgestone Corporation, Japan

(Winner of the 1995 Fundamental Technology Prize of Bridgestone Corp (Japan), Research & Development Division)

Publications

Some Recent Publications

C. Joung and H. See, Simulation of magnetorheological fluids incorporating hydrodynamic effects, Rheol. Acta, 47, 917–927 (2008).

C. Ekwebelam and H. See, Microstructural investigations of the yielding behaviour of bidisperse magnetorheological fluids (accepted for publication in Rheologica Acta, 1 June 2008).

H. Esmonde, H. See and M. Swain, Squeeze film rheometry, geometry effects and spectral analysis (accepted for publication in Measurement Science and Technology, 28 Aug 2008). Meas. Sci. Technol. 19 (2008.) 115404.

C Ekwebelam and H. See, Using oscillatory shear to probe the effects of bidispersity in inverse ferrofluids, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, 19, 35-42 (2007).

H. See, S. Mackenzie and B.T. Chua, Effect of compression on the response of a magneto-rheological suspension, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, 18, 121-126 (2006).

H. See and P. Brian, Measuring the yield stress of a particulate suspension under high electric fields, Powder Technology, 160, 40-44 (2005).

T. Narumi, H. See, A. Suzuki and T. Hasegawa, Response of concentrated suspensions under large amplitude oscillatory shear flow, J. Rheol., 49, 71-85 (2005).

T. Narumi, H. See, Y. Honma, T. Takahashi, T. Hasegawa and N. Phan-Thien, Transient response of concentrated suspensions after shear reversal, J. Rheol, 46, 295-305 (2002).

H. See, P.Jiang and N. Phan-Thien, Concentration dependence of the linear viscoelastic properties of particle suspensions, Rheol. Acta, 39, 131 (2000).

Facilities

Excellent laboratory facilities for rheological measurements – torsional rheometers (Anton Paar Physica MCR 300 and MCR301), Gottfert capillary rheometer, Linkam CSS450 optical shearing system.

Prospective students

There are Masters and PhD research projects available in the areas of our group's research interest, including rheology, fluid mechanics and transport processes. We have a special interest in fundamental studies of complex fluids – these are materials which are composed of microstructural elements that interact via interparticle and hydrodynamic forces. Familiar examples of such fluids are suspensions of solid particles (slurries), liquid crystals, ferrofluids, electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, paper pulp suspensions and polymer solutions and melts. In all of these systems the basic question is one of understanding the relationship between the material's microstructure and the macroscopic rheological properties.

Consulting Interests

rheology, fluid mechanics,

Personal Activities and Interests

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