Dr Caimao Luo

Biography

• Teaching the following courses: "FORTRAN applications in Engineering", "Coastal ocean dynamics", River Dynamics", "Engineering English", "Hydrology", "Hydrodynamics" and "Computational Fluid Mechanics"
• Participating in the river dynamic computation work of the Three Gorge Project of Yantz River
• Joining the outdoor survey on the 319 Highway of Chongqing
• Investigating effects of flood and draught disasters on highways
• Developing the PIII Curve software for evaluating the flood risk period of Bridges
• Studying on the Responses and Forces of Berth-Moorings-Vessel under the Action of Beam-Sea Waves by Boundary Element Method (BEM).
• Participating in the research "The detailed flow property investigation on the uniform oscillatory flowing around an impulsively started rotating circular cylinder"
• Participating in the research "Instability study on the wake of the flow around the circular cylinder for Reynolds number lower than 200"
• Using Energy Plus and AccuRate to predict the thermal performance of buildings;
• Coding the thermal performance software using a special finite volume (FV) method and conduction transfer function (CTF) method;
• Coding the solar access and window fenestration software to calculate the sunshine area from windows or shadow area;
• Coding infiltration and ventilation models;
• Coding the window multi-layer glass models;
• Coding the weather model to calculate the solar radiation heat flux on the outer wall surfaces;
• Coding programs to convert the monitored measurements to weather input data to AccuRate;
• Coding programs to calculate the view factors for polygon surfaces;
• Designing the thermal performance software interface by Microsoft .NET C++ language.
• Using Fluent CFD software to do some industry consulting study.
• Lecturing part of the course Clean Coal (2009 and 2010), Advanced Energy Systems (2009)

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Newcastle, 2010
• Master of Engineering, Institute of Mechanics-Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1989

Research

Research keywords

• Chemical Combustion
• Chemical Kinetics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Thermal Performance of buildings

Research expertise

• Participating in the river dynamic computation work of the Three Gorge Project of Yantz River
• Joining the outdoor survey on the 319 Highway of Chongqing
• Investigating effects of flood and draught disasters on highways
• Developing the PIII Curve software for evaluating the flood risk period of Bridges
• Studying on the Responses and Forces of Berth-Moorings-Vessel under the Action of Beam-Sea Waves by Boundary Element Method (BEM)
• Participating in the research "The detailed flow property investigation on the uniform oscillatory flowing around an impulsively started rotating circular cylinder"
• Participating in the research "Instability study on the wake of the flow around the circular cylinder for Reynolds number lower than 200"
• Developing a 2D finite volume software
• Developing a JAVA thermodynamic property calculator for species and reactions
• Combining CHEMKIN with CFX
• Using CFAST program
• Adding integrated atomic flux analysis to SENKIN, PREMIX, PLUG of CHEMKIN
• Studying On the Influence of Inert Gas Shrouds on the Characteristics of Counterflow Diffusion Flames by CFX
• Studying Alignment effect on the structure of methane-air counterflow diffusion flames by CFX
• Evaluating various CF3Br inhibition mechanisms
• Constructing a modified trifluorobromomethane inhibition mechanism
• Developing a modified finite volume scheme to convective-diffusion problems
• Investigating numerically the 3D Counterflow Diffusion Flames
• Using Energy Plus and AccuRate to predict the thermal performance of buildings;
• Teaching students to use AccuRate;
• Coding the thermal performance software using a special finite volume (FV) method and conduction transfer function (CTF) method;
• Coding the solar access and window fenestration software to calculate the sunshine area from windows or shadow area;
• Coding infiltration and ventilation models;
• Coding the window multi-layer glass models;
• Coding the weather model to calculate the solar radiation heat flux on the outer wall surfaces;
• Coding programs to convert the monitored measurements to weather input data to AccuRate;
• Coding programs to calculate the view factors for polygon surfaces;
• Designing the thermal performance software interface by Microsoft .NET C++ language.
• Using Fluent CFD software to do some industry consulting study.

Collaboration

Chemical Looping Combustion

Thermal Performance of Buildings

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Chemical Kinetics

Chemical Combustion

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

• PRC - Priority Research Centre for Energy

Administrative

Administrative expertise

N/A

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Advanced Energy System (CHEE 6008)
• Chemical Kinetics
• Clean Coal Technology (CHEE 6200)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Fire Safety
• Fluid Dynamics
• Heat Transfer
• Mass Transfer
• Thermodynamics

Teaching expertise

• Teaching the following courses: "FORTRAN applications in Engineering", "Coastal ocean dynamics", River Dynamics", "Engineering English", "Hydrology", "Hydrodynamics" and "Computational Fluid Mechanics"

• Tutoring the following courses in University of Newcastle, Australia: Chemical Kinetics (twice), Thermodynamics( twice), Mass transfer (twice), Fluid Mechanics in Mass Transfer (twice).

• Lecturing part of the course Clean Coal (2009 and 2010), Advanced Energy Systems (2009 and 2010)