Tag: energy materials

  • Funded Australia-India Fellowship

    The Australian Academy of Science has announced the successful recipients of the Australia–India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) 2019 Fellowships. Dr Yixiang Gan was named among 11 recipients from different universities in Australia. He will be working with colleagues from IIT Madras and IIT Bhubaneswar on “Optimising thermal energy storage with…

  • Funded Australia-Germany joint research project

    Funded Australia-Germany joint research project

    Our team will be funded under Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme between Universities Australia and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The project will enable us to work closely with the research team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on multi-scale modelling of Li-ion batteries in the coming 2 years (2019-2020). The project title is “A microstructure…

  • IWMEM2017 Workshop, Suzhou, China

    IWMEM2017 Workshop, Suzhou, China

    The Second International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2017) has been successfully hosted at The University of Sydney Centre in China, 8-11 November, 2o17. The workshop contained 27 technical presentations, regarding a wide range of research on challenging engineering problems in energy systems (nuclear fusion / fission, batteries, and photovoltaic systems), and 45 participants…

  • Paper online (Fusion Eng. Des.) on ellipsoidal DEM

    Paper online (Fusion Eng. Des.) on ellipsoidal DEM

    Moscardinia, M., Gan, Y., Annabattula, R.K., Kamlah M. (2017) A Discrete Element Method to simulate the mechanical behavior of ellipsoidal particles for a fusion breeding blanket. Fusion Engineering and Design. 121: 22-31. [DOI][PDF:046_FED_2017_M] Abstract: The breeder materials proposed for the solid tritium breeding blanket concepts are ceramic lithium-based compounds in the form of pebble beds. Different fabrication…

  • IWMEM2017 website online

    The website of International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2017) is now online via http://iwmem.org/. The information will be updated in the near future. The workshop will be hosted in Suzhou, 8-11 November, 2017. The venue is the newly established University of Sydney Centre in Suzhou, in Suzhou Industrial Park. The previous workshop was…

  • ModVal14, Karlsruhe, Germany

    ModVal14, Karlsruhe, Germany

    From 2-3 March, 2017, Dr Gan attended the 14th Symposium on Fuel Cell and Battery Modeling and Experimental Validation (ModVal14), Karlsruhe, Germany. In the conference, the recent work in the research group on “Universality of the emergent scaling in finite random binary percolation networks” was presented. The presentation slides can be viewed and downloaded via:  

  • IWMEM2016 workshop

    IWMEM2016 workshop

    International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2016) has been successfully hosted at The University of Sydney, 14-15 November, 2o16. The workshop contained 22 presentations, regarding a wide range of research on challenging engineering problems in energy systems, and 40 participants from Germany, China, India, USA and Australia. After the presentations, an open discussion session…

  • Mr Oleg Birkholz is visiting the lab

    Mr Oleg Birkholz is visiting the lab

    Mr Oleg Birkholz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany is visiting us at The University of Sydney. Oleg is working on the numerical aspects of modelling lithium-ion battery systems, via the discrete element method and resistor-capacity (RC) network. He will stay with us for two months and working on modelling electro-mechanical properties of granular…

  • Call for Abstracts: International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2016)

    Dear colleagues, Please consider submit an abstract (maximum 2 pages) for your talk at the coming International Workshop on Mechanics of Energy Materials (IWMEM2016, Sydney). The deadline for the abstract submission is 15 August, 2016. You can also consider to include one figure in the abstract to highlight your research. Time and Location: 14-15 November…