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Fang-Bao Tian

 

Associate Professor (ARC DECRA Fellow 2016-2019, Deputy Head of School-Research 2023-2026)

School of Engineering and Technology

University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT 2610, Australia

 

Room 367 Building 21, SET, UNSW Canberra

 

Email: fangbao.tian#unsw.edu.au and onetfbao#gmail.com

Tel: (+61) 2 5114 5212

Fax: (+61) 2 6268 8276

UNSW Research Gateway       UNSW Staff Web

Google Scholar Profile             Scopus link

Research ID: C-9988-2014      ORCID link

 

Mailing address:

       Room 367 Building 21

       UNSW Canberra at ADFA

       Po Box 7916, Canberra, BC ACT 2610, Australia

Delivery:

       Room 367 Building 21

       SET, UNSW Canberra at ADFA

       1 Northcott Dr, Campbell, ACT 2600, Australia

 

Appointment:

 

01/2022-, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

07/2023-06/2026, Deputy Head of School - Research, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

04/2022-01/2023, Interim Postgraduate Coordinator, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

07/2019-07/2022, Research Student Admissions & Scholarships Coordinator, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

07/2017-12/2021, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

09/2014-06/2017, Lecturer, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

08/2013-08/2014, Research Associate, University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT, Australia

09/2011-08/2013, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

 

Education:

 

PhD.,  Fluid Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011

B.S.,  Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2006

 

Awards and Honors:

 

November 2025: Arc PGC Research Supervision Award Honorable Mention, UNSW Arc PGC;

October 2025: Best paper award, Physics of Fluids, AIP;

October 2023: Best Industry Collaboration to ``Ocius Technologies/UNSW'', Knowledge Commercialisation Australia, with Prof Tian as one of the major collaborators/researchers;

June, 2023: UNSW Canberra SEIT 2022 Publication Award;

February, 2022: UNSW Canberra Goldstar Award 2022;

December, 2021: IEEE Outstanding SMCS Chapter Award, IEEE SMC Society;

December, 2021: Outstanding Volunteer Award, IEEE ACT Section;

February, 2021: UNSW Canberra Goldstar Award 2021;

November, 2020: Co-recipient of the First Prize of Yunnan Science & Technology Awards, Yunnan Province, CN;

January, 2017: Journal of Fluids and Structures Highly Cited Research;

November, 2017: UNSW Canberra Silverstar Award 2018;

November, 2016: UNSW Canberra Silverstar Award 2017;

October, 2015: ARC DECRA 2016;

June, 2015: Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters 2012 Best Paper Award;

June, 2013: The 2013 AQL Best Paper Award;

September, 2010: International Travel Grant to the 2010 American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS/DFD).

 

Research Interests:

 

Numerical methods for fluid-structure interactions and complex flows;

Biological and biomedical flows;

Flow science and mechanical engineering science;

Flow stability, turbulence flow, unsteady aerodynamics & non-Newtonian fluids.

 

Teaching:

 

Lecturer, UNSW, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Undergraduate, S1 2016-2025.

Co-Lecturer, UNSW, Fundamentals of Flight, Undergraduate, S2 2022.

Tutor & Co-Lecturer, UNSW, Fluid Mechanics, Undergraduate, S2 2021.

Co-Lecturer, UNSW, Hydraulic Engineering, Undergraduate, S2 2015.

Lecturer, UNSW, Fluid Mechanics, Undergraduate, S2 2015.

 

Professional Services:

 

Associate Editor, Journal of Fluids and Structures (2022- ), Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (JMES) (2019-2026), Acta Mechanica Sinica (12/2025), PLOS ONE (2019-2023), Scientific Reports (2022-2023).

Member on Editorial Board, International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles (2019-2025), JMES (2016-2019).

Lead Guest Editor, JMES - Lattice Boltzmann Method and its Applications in Engineering Flows (2021-2023).

Lead Guest Editor, JMES - Numerical simulations of biological flows and their engineering applications (2020-2021).

Lead Guest Editor, JMES - The LBM and its Applications in Complex Flows and FSI (2016-2018).

Lead Guest Editor, JMES - Bio-inspired Flapping Foils and Their Applications (2016-2018).

Lead Guest Editor, Comput Math Meth Med - Computational Methods and Models in Circulatory and Reproductive Systems (2016).

Assessor, Chilean National Science and Technology Commission and ARC.

Member of Steering Committee: DisCoVor (Direct In-person Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows) Series (2023-).

Session Chair, DisCoVor (2023), AFMC (2022, 2024, 2026), 4th ACCM (2019), CCTAM (2017), 3rd FSSIC (2015), ICCFD 8 (2014).

Program Committee Member, ParCFD 2013, iCBEB 2014, iWB 2014, CCM2014 & 2015.

Reviewer, JFM, JCP, Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, J Biomech, JFS, JSV, JASA and other international journals (more than 20).