Overview
Background
Dr Rowan Gollan was awarded his PhD in the field of Aerospace Engineering from UQ in 2009, where he was awarded the 2010 John Simmons Prize for best thesis in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering and The University of Queensland Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis. From August 2008, while his thesis was under examination, Rowan took up a position as a research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in the United States, working in the Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch. Rowan returned to UQ in January 2012 in a position funded by the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO). In his role as an aerodynamic analyst, Rowan uses state-of-the-art hypersonic analysis techniques to simulate an experimental flight vehicle.
Dr Gollan was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), which he commenced in 2014.
DECRA Project summary: Next-generation launch vehicles using high-speed jet engines will make it cheaper and more reliable for humankind to engage in activities in space. This project will contribute to the technology of high-speed jet engines by developing optimised air intake systems. The research aims to advance the use of computational engineering and apply this to improve the design of air intake systems.The outcomes of this project will advance the technology of high-speed jet engines with the goal of replacing existing rocket systems.
Availability
- Dr Rowan Gollan is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Engineering, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Works
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2001
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Implementation of subsonic boundary conditions in compressible flow codes
Gollan, Rowan (2001). Implementation of subsonic boundary conditions in compressible flow codes. B.Sc Thesis, School of Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/302726
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Rowan Gollan is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Numerical modelling of electron transpiration cooling for hypersonic vehicles
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Nick Gibbons
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Doctor Philosophy
Design and Optimize Heat Exchanger for Super Critical CO2 Power Plant Cooling (25 MW)
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Direct Numerical Simulation of High-Speed Flows using Graphics Processing Units
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Qualitative Study of Radial-Inflow Turbine Working with High-Dense Gases
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Development of an entropic lattice Boltzmann model for compressible fluid-structure interaction
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Chris James, Dr Nick Gibbons
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Doctor Philosophy
State-to-state modelling of nonequilibrium reacting shock layers
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Carolyn Jacobs, Dr Nick Gibbons
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Doctor Philosophy
Adjoint-based Optimisation of an Integrated Forebody and Inlet for Hypersonic Flight
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Shape Morphing Hypersonic Vehicles
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Vincent Wheatley
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Doctor Philosophy
Co-design of hypersonic vehicle shape and trajectory
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
On the Repeatability and Flow Characterisation of Hypersonic Ground Test Facilities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Richard Morgan, Dr Carolyn Jacobs, Dr Chris James
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Doctor Philosophy
Two-fluid modeling of electron transpiration cooling for the leading edges of hypersonic vehicles
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Vincent Wheatley
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Doctor Philosophy
Optimised use of Magnetohydrodynamic Aerobraking for Planetary Atmospheric Entry
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Vincent Wheatley, Dr David Gildfind
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Forced air as a Quenching option for Thin Sheet Aluminium Incrementally Sheet Formed Components
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Design Optimisation in Hypersonic Flow
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Direct Numerical Simulations of Instabilities in the Entropy Layer of a Hypersonic Blunted Slender Cone
Associate Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Optically based heat flux measurements in radiating expansion tunnel flows
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Richard Morgan
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Low-enthalpy testing of a fixed-geometry scramjet accelerator engine
Associate Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
On the design of small to medium scale radial inflow turbines for the supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle
Associate Advisor
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Hypersonic Streamwise Vortices and their Effect on Mixing
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Micro/mesoscale Combustion Based Portable Power Generating System
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Anand Veeraragavan
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