Rate My Professor Daniel Edgington-Mitchell

Daniel Edgington-Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. He earned his undergraduate degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Monash University in 2005. During his PhD candidature, he spent 2008-2009 as a Fulbright Fellow conducting research in the High Temperature Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Stanford University. He completed his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Monash University in 2013. Upon graduation, he began casual lecturing at Monash and advanced to his current position. He serves as Director of Research for the Department, having previously held roles as Course Director for Aerospace Engineering and Faculty Chair for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity. Edgington-Mitchell co-directs the Shock Lab, leading a team of about 20 researchers studying high-speed compressible flows using facilities including an anechoic jet facility up to Mach 1.8, a supersonic wind tunnel up to Mach 3.5, and rocket-nozzle test setups.

His research focuses on aeroacoustics, fluid mechanics, high-speed propulsion, and jet noise, with applications to aerospace propulsion, additive manufacturing, and pharmaceutical delivery. As an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow from 2023 to 2028, he examines resonance in rocket nozzles. Notable awards include the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision in 2025, the Dean's Award in Research for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, the Vice-Chancellor's Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2020, and the Fulbright Fellowship. His publications feature 'A unifying theory of jet screech' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022), 'The underexpanded jet Mach disk and its associated shear layer' (Physics of Fluids, 2014), 'Upstream-travelling acoustic jet modes as a closure mechanism for screech' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018), 'Modelling rectangular-jet screech via dimensional reduction' (Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2026), and 'Screech in Military-Style Rectangular Nozzles' (AIAA Journal, 2025). With over 3,000 Google Scholar citations, his contributions advance noise suppression in supersonic jets and receptivity in underexpanded flows. His supervisees have secured the Bill Melbourne Medal three times in five years, fellowships, and launched a startup.