Background

Dr. Bin Liu joined Newcastle University, Singapore campus, as Assistant Professor in Marine and Offshore Technology since Dec 2022. Before joining Newcastle University, he worked as Research Associate in Imperial College London and Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanyang Technological University. He received Bachelor’s Degree (specialisation in Aeronautical Engineering) and Ph.D Degree from Department of Mechanical Engineering in National University of Singapore in 2015 and 2020, respectively. He has years of experience working on finite element methods, fluid-structure interaction, flow control, hydrodynamics stability and heat & mass transfer.

Over the years, he developed a number of highly robust and efficient finite element codes to simulate large-scale three-dimensional multi-physics problems. He published his research in the prestigious engineering journals, e.g., Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, as the corresponding/first author. He also serves as reviewers in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fluid and Structures and Computer & Fluids.

Besides the aforementioned research areas, his current research interests include renewable energy (wind turbine and hydrogen gas turbine), reduced order model and machine learning for fluid dynamics, discontinuous Galerkin methods and turbulence modeling.

Academic Position

Assistant Professor in Marine and Offshore Technology in Newcastle University, Singapore campus, Singapore

Research Associate in Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Qualification

Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore

B. Eng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (specialisation in Aeronautical Engineering), National University of Singapore

Research

Research Profile

Fluid-structure interaction

Flow control, hydro-energy harvesting and hydrodynamics stability

Heat & mass transfer and renewable energy (wind turbine)

Reduced order model and machine learning for fluid dynamics

Finite element methods and turbulence modeling

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CXIa_bYAAAAJ&hl=en

The interested candidates may approach to me and discuss the Master/Ph.D opportunities.

Teaching

Dr. Bin Liu contributes to and leads (*) the following modules:

NME2109 Naval Architecture 2* (Module Leader)

NME2104 Marine Propulsion

NME3110 Offshore Renewables* (Module Leader)

NME2105 Marine Structures 1A* (Module Leader)

NME2106 Marine Structures 1B* (Module Leader)

NME3107 Marine Structures 2* (Module Leader)

NME3103 Capstone Project

Publications

• Articles

  • Zhu H, Zhong J, Liu B. Hydro- and thermo-dynamic characteristics of a circular cylinder placed in mixed convection flow. Physics of Fluids 2022, 34, 093614.
  • Zhu H, Zhong J, Liu B. Fluid–thermal–structure interaction of three heated circular cylinders in tandem at a low Reynolds number of 150. Physics of Fluids 2022, 34(8), 083605.
  • Liu B, Zhu H. Secondary lock-in of vortex-induced vibration and energy transfer characteristics of a vibrating cylinder subject to cross buoyancy. Physics of Fluids 2021, 33(7), 073607.
  • Liu B. A Nitsche stabilized finite element method: Application for heat and mass transfer and fluid–structure interaction. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2021, 386, 114101.
  • Liu B, Tan D. A Nitsche stabilized finite element method for embedded interfaces: Application to fluid-structure interaction and rigid-body contact. Journal of Computational Physics 2020, 413, 109461.
  • Liu B, Jaiman RK. Dynamics and stability of gap-flow interference in a vibrating side-by-side arrangement of two circular cylinders. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018, 855, 804-838.
  • Liu B, Jaiman RK. Interaction dynamics of gap flow with vortex-induced vibration in side-by-side cylinder arrangement. Physics of Fluids 2016, 28, 127103.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Liu B, Cantwell CD, Moxey D, Mashy G, Sherwin SJ. Vectorised spectral/hp element matrix-free operator for anisotropic heat transport in tokamak edge plasma. In: 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. 2022, Oslo, Norway: ECCOMAS Congress.
  • Liu B, Jin Y, Magee AR, Yiew LJ, Zhang S. System Identification of Abkowitz Model for Ship Maneuvering Motion Based on ε-Support Vector Regression. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: ASME.
  • Liu B, Jaiman RK. The effect of gap flow on vortex-induced vibration of side-by-side cylinder arrangement. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. 2016, Busan, South Korea: ASME.
  • Joshi V, Liu B, Jaiman RK. Flow-induced vibrations of riser array system. In: Proceedings of the ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. 2016, Busan, South Korea: ASME.