Investigation and optimisation of displacement ventilation and cooling systems

一个精确的冷却和通风优化设计工具将对澳大利亚的建筑行业有相当大的好处，并将导致能源消耗的减少，从而降低消费者成本和澳大利亚的温室气体排放总量，并为澳大利亚的工业提供竞争优势。分层流体的湍流建模是科学领域的重大挑战之一，在这一领域受过培训的研究生和博士后研究人员将很好地为解决当前面临的主要环境问题所需的新技术做出重大贡献。

An accurate optimisation design tool for cooling and ventilation will be of considerable benefit to the Australian building/construction industry, and will lead to a reduction in energy consumption, thereby reducing both consumer costs and Australia's total greenhouse gas output, as well as providing Australian industry with a competitive advantage. Turbulence modelling for stratified fluids is one of the grand challenge areas of science, and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers trained in this area will be well placed to make a significant contribution to the new technologies needed to address the major environmental problems currently being faced.