A/Prof Daniel Chung

Dr Daniel Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne.

Biography
Daniel graduated from The University of Melbourne with a BE (Mechatronics) / BCS in 2003, and then went on to complete his PhD (Aeronautics) at the California Institute of Technology in 2009. Then he was a postdoctoral scholar researching climate physics at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory before joining the department as Lecturer in 2012.

Research Interests
Daniel is interested in interdisciplinary research centred around fluid mechanics, including large-eddy simulation and modelling, direct numerical simulation, wall-bounded turbulence (especially over roughness), turbulent convection and planetary boundary layers.

Daniel's research is fundamental in nature, aimed at developing and improving the predictive tools used in engineering and meteorology.

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Daniel Chung's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

Direct numerical simulations of Taylor-Couette turbulence: the effects of sand grain roughness

Daniel Chung's selected work

Understanding Turbulent Heat Transfer With Practical Surface Conditions

Research Grant

Recovery of wall-shear stress to equilibrium flow conditions after a rough-to-smooth step ..

Journal article

Understanding Rough-Wall Flows And Turbulent Mixing For Improved Models

Research Grant

Heat transfer in rough-wall turbulent thermal convection in the ultimate regime

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Understanding Rough-Wall Flows And Turbulent Mixing For Improved Models

Research Grant

Direct numerical simulation of open-channel flow over smooth-to-rough and rough-to-smooth ..

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Projects

Displaying the 16 most recent projects by Daniel Chung.

Understanding Turbulent Heat Transfer With Practical Surface Conditions

2020 - 2023

Active

Understanding Rough-Wall Flows And Turbulent Mixing For Improved Models

In the absence of a reliable predictive capability for turbulent heat transfer, design engineers are currently forced to incorporate safety ..

2019 - 2021

Active

Understanding Rough-Wall Flows And Turbulent Mixing For Improved Models

In the absence of a reliable predictive capability for turbulent heat transfer, design engineers are currently forced to incorporate safety ..

2019 - 2021

Active

High-Fidelity Simulations, Experiments And Data-Driven Model Development Of Natural Convection And Flow Over Rough Surface Applications

2018 - 2019

Completed

Tailoring Aircraft Surface Textures To Minimise Drag

This project aims to optimise textured surfaces for reducing fluid dynamic drag. The project builds on recent breakthroughs in drag-evaluati..

2017 - 2019

Completed

Developing Novel Big-Data Based Models For Designing Greener Turbines

This project aims to improve the fuel efficiency of gas turbines, the backbone of power generation and aircraft propulsion, for efficient an..

2017 - 2020

Completed

Developing Novel Big-Data Based Models For Designing Greener Turbines

This project aims to improve the fuel efficiency of gas turbines, the backbone of power generation and aircraft propulsion, for efficient an..

2016 - 2020

Completed

Turbulent Flow Over Surfaces With Spatially Varying Roughness

This project aims to improve understanding of the effect of spatial roughness transitions on turbulent flows. Fluids flowing over non-smooth..

2016 - 2019

Completed

Surface Texture Optimization For Turbulent Drag Reduction

2016 - 2016

Completed

An Investigation Of Turbulent Flow Over Surfaces With Varying Roughness

2015 - 2015

Completed

A Thermally Stratified Sea-Ice-Wave Interaction Facility

Predictions of climate change now impact all levels of society as future political, social and environmental plans are made on the basis of ..

2014 - 2016

Completed

A Thermally Stratified Sea-Ice-Wave Interaction Facility

Predictions of climate change now impact all levels of society as future political, social and environmental plans are made on the basis of ..

2014 - 2016

Completed

D3: Fire Spread Across Fuel Types

2014 - 2017

Completed

On Moisture Effects In Turbulent Clouds

2013 - 2014

Completed

The Role Of Turbulence In Transporting Waterborne Material Within Streambed Sediments And Across The Sediment-Water Interface

The sediments of rivers, lakes and coastal ocean filter waterborne contaminants. This project uses novel experimental techniques to investig..

2013 - 2016

Completed

The Numerical Prediction Of Turbulent Heat Transfer In Double-Skin Facades

2012 - 2013

Completed

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 70 most recent scholarly works by Daniel Chung.

Direct numerical simulations of Taylor-Couette turbulence: the effects of sand grain roughness

Pieter Berghout, Xiaojue Zhu, Daniel Chung, Roberto Verzicco, Richard JAM Stevens, Detlef Lohse

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Progress in roughness research, mapping any given roughness geometry to its fluid dynamic behaviour, has been hampered by the lack..

Recovery of wall-shear stress to equilibrium flow conditions after a rough-to-smooth step change in turbulent boundary layers

Mogeng Li, Charitha M de Silva, Amirreza Rouhi, Rio Baidya, Daniel Chung, Ivan Marusic, Nicholas Hutchins

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

This paper examines the recovery of the wall-shear stress of a turbulent boundary layer that has undergone a sudden transition fro..

Heat transfer in rough-wall turbulent thermal convection in the ultimate regime

Michael MacDonald, Nicholas Hutchins, Detlef Lohse, Daniel Chung

Journal article | 2019 | Physical Review Fluids

Heat and momentum transfer in wall-bounded turbulent flow, coupled with the effects of wall roughness, is one of the outstanding q..

Direct numerical simulation of open-channel flow over smooth-to-rough and rough-to-smooth step changes

Amirreza Rouhi, Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Roughness effects in turbulent forced convection

M MacDonald, N Hutchins, D Chung

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Contribution of dispersive stress to skin friction drag in turbulent flow over riblets

Davide Modesti, Sebastian Endrikat, Ricardo García-Mayoral, Nicholas Hutchins, Daniel Chung

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019

We carry out direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of minimal open-channel flow over riblets, which are streamwise-aligned grooves t..

Roughness and Reynolds Number Effects on the Flow Past a Rough-to-Smooth Step Change

Amirreza Rouhi, Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | Springer Proceedings in Physics

We report direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of open-channel flow with a step change from three-dimensional sinusoidal rough surf..

The instantaneous structure of turbulent boundary layers over surfaces with spanwise heterogeneity

DD Wangsawijaya, CM de Silva, R Baidya, D Chung, I Marusic, N Hutchins

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019

Turbulent flows over surfaces with extensive roughness variation in the spanwise direction induce a secondary flow in the form of ..

Experimental study of a high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer evolving over a rough-to-smooth change in surface condition

M Li, CM de Silva, R Baidya, D Chung, I Marusic, N Hutchins

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019

The evolution of turbulent boundary layers downstream of a rough-to-smooth transition is investigated at a range of Reynolds numbe..

Secondary motion in turbulent pipe flow with three-dimensional roughness

L Chan, M MacDonald, D Chung, N Hutchins, A Ooi

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Transition to ultimate Rayleigh-Benard turbulence revealed through extended self-similarity scaling analysis of the temperature structure functions

Dominik Krug, Xiaojue Zhu, Daniel Chung, Ivan I Marusic, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Similarity and structure of wall turbulence with lateral wall shear stress variations

D Chung, JP Monty, N Hutchins

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Direct numerical simulation of high aspect ratio spanwise-aligned bars

M MacDonald, A Ooi, R Garcia-Mayoral, N Hutchins, D Chung

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Bulk scaling in wall-bounded and homogeneous vertical natural convection

Chong Shen Ng, Andrew Ooi, Detlef Lohse, Daniel Chung

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Fluid Mechanics