Mohsen Talei

Mohsen Talei is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He joined the University of Melbourne as a staff member in 2014, following the completion of his PhD at the same institution. His earlier academic background includes a Master's degree (Coursework and Research) from the University of Tehran and a Bachelor's degree from Amirkabir University of Technology. Possessing 22 years of industry and academic research experience, Talei specializes in the broad area of energy, particularly low-emission energy technologies.

Talei's research focuses on combustion, acoustics, direct numerical simulation, and large eddy simulation. His work explores combustion-generated sound, hydrogen combustion dynamics in gas turbines, premixed hydrogen influences at elevated pressures, and the development of clean transport fuels from waste. He has led significant projects, including high-fidelity simulations of turbulent premixed flames and hydrogen auto-ignition in confined domains. Talei received the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2018 to develop predictive tools for combustion noise in low-emission gas turbine combustors. He has since obtained further ARC Discovery Project funding, such as DP240100450 for modeling premixed hydrogen at engine pressures and initiatives towards highly-efficient hydrogen gas turbines. Talei also held a visiting fellowship at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, and contributes to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Renewable Fuels.

Among his key publications are 'The impact of chemical modelling on turbulent premixed flame acoustics' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021), 'Analysis of pressure oscillations and wall heat flux due to hydrogen auto-ignition in a confined domain' (Physics of Fluids, 2023), 'Data-driven combustion modeling for a turbulent flame simulated with a computationally efficient solver' (2020), 'Capturing different modes of hydrogen combustion in a spark-ignition engine using numerical simulations' (2022), and 'Large-eddy simulation of methane direct injection using the full injector geometry' (2021). His scholarship is evidenced by over 1,600 citations on Google Scholar.

Professional Email: mohsen.talei@unimelb.edu.au