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Research Areas

Biomedical Engineering
Design & Manufacture
Materials & Solids
Thermofluids
Natural & Built Environment
Sound, Vibration & Control
Faculty staff in this area:
Prof. Huang L. | Prof. Wang M. | Prof. Xu L.Z.

  • Bioceramics

  • Biocomposites

  • Biomechanics of hard and soft tissues

  • Biosurgery

  • Bone tissue engineering

  • Cellular and molecular biomechanics

  • Drug delivery

  • In vitro and in vivo evaluation of biomaterials

  • Photochemical crosslinking

  • Processing, structure and properties of new biomaterials

  • Respiratory biofluid mechanics

  • Structure and properties of biological materials

  • Surface modification of metallic biomaterials

  • Tissue engineering and regeneration

  • Tissue engineering scaffolds

Faculty staff in this area:
Dr. Chan C.K. | Prof. Zhang F.

  • Computer and robot assisted surgeries

  • Design for product life-cycle cost

  • Feature-based systems

  • Geometric feature recognition

  • Geometric modelling applications

  • Haptics-based modelling

  • Heterogeneous components design

  • Intelligent design systems

  • Layered manufacturing of multiple material objects

  • Product development technologies

  • Rapid prototyping

  • Simulation modeling

Faculty staff in this area:
Prof. Chen Y. | Prof. Chow P.C.Y. | Prof. Huang M.X. |
Dr. Ko M.W.L. | Prof. Lin Y. | Prof. Wang M. | Prof. Xu L.Z.

  • Computer and robot assisted surgeries

  • Design for product life-cycle cost

  • Feature-based systems

  • Geometric feature recognition

  • Geometric modelling applications

  • Haptics-based modelling

  • Heterogeneous components design

  • Intelligent design systems

  • Layered manufacturing of multiple material objects

  • Product development technologies

  • Rapid prototyping

  • Simulation modeling

  • AMS experiment on the international space station (thermal control system)

  • Droplets and fibers

  • Dynamics of boundary layers and shear flows

  • Environmental fluid mechanics

  • Hydrodynamic stability

  • Innovative harbour design

  • Interfacial transport phenomena

  • Mass transport in fluids

  • Mechanics of porous media

  • Micro-scale transport phenomena

  • Multi-scale transport phenomena

  • Multiplicity and stability in transport phenomena

  • Nano, Sub-Nano bubbles

  • Nanofluids

  • Nonlinear water waves

  • Viscoelastic and non-Newtonian fluids

  • Vortex dynamics

Faculty staff in this area:
Prof. Chan P.K.L. | Prof. Chow P.C.Y. | Dr. Ho B.P.L. |
Prof. Huang L. | Prof. Li Y. | Prof. Liu C.H.

  • Aeroacoustics and noise control

  • Air pollution physics and chemistry

  • Bio-aerosols

  • Building automation

  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

  • Dispersion modeling

  • Energy efficiency

  • Geophysical turbulence

  • HVAC and geothermal heat pump

  • Heat transfer

  • Indoor and outdoor air/noise pollution

  • Intelligent control strategies and fault detection

  • Liquid desiccant dehumidification

  • Natural ventilation

  • Noise source modeling

  • Renewable energy and fossil fuel

  • Smoke spread and fire safety

  • Urban heat island

  • Vehicle noise

Faculty staff in this area:
Prof. Huang L. | Prof. Lam J. | Prof. Zhang F.

  • Active control

  • Artificial intelligent control

  • Compensation for actuator nonlinearities

  • Delay systems

  • Fault detection

  • Flow induced vibration

  • Generalized systems

  • Model reduction

  • Neurofuzzy networks for modeling & control

  • Reliable control

  • Robotics applications

  • Robust control system design

  • Structural vibraiton

  • Vibroacoustics