John Sheridan
  1. Current research activities

    2. Currently, our work is oriented towards the understanding of the conditions of the external environment that promotes tissue growth. This is done by examining the macro- and micro-fluid environment using a combination of physical and numerical modeling. This work is carried out under the auspices of the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory for Aerodynamic and Industrial Research (FLAIR), based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Monash University. Particular foci of the current research are the charcterisation of the fluid stress fields in bioreactors (experiments and numerics) and the numerical examination of the flow over a cell attached to a surface and experiencing a pulsatile external flow.

  2. Keywords

    3. bioreactors, cell engineering, fluid mechanics.

  3. End-user applications

    • Industry seeking to scale up from small scale tissue / cell engineering to the scale needed for creation of product with the required properties and geometry

  4. Key publications

    5. I. I. Dusting, J, Sheridan, J and Hourigan, K, Flows within a cell culture bioreactor with a free-surface and a rotating lid, XXI ICTAM, Warsaw, Poland, 2004
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  5. Outreach activities

    6. None as yet.

  6. Key organisation membership

    7. None as yet.

  7. Early career researcher?

    8. No

  8. Young investigator?

    9. No

  9. Skills and expertise

    • Experimental Fluid Mechanics
    • Flow in bioreactors
    • Numerical analysis of fluid flows

  10. Specialist equipment and infrastructure

    • We have a large range of laser diagnostic and imaging infrastructure, largely funded by ARC Infrastructure grants.
    • We also have an internal computer cluster but primarily use APAC / VPAC facilities for numerical modeling

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