Steven Armfield

Professor Steven Armfield is a Professor in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney. He holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Flinders University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sydney. Armfield has been affiliated with the University of Sydney since 1996, advancing to his current professorial position. Between 2008 and 2015, he served as Head of the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. In 2005, he was the UPS Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. His career emphasizes advanced numerical methods for simulating complex fluid flows.

Armfield's research specializations encompass thermodynamics and fluids, fluid mechanics and thermal engineering, and computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, including computational fluid dynamics. His work addresses buoyant flows, natural convection, flow stability, and transitional phenomena in engineering contexts. Key publications include 'Three-dimensional simulation of natural convection in a reservoir subject to transient heating' (Physics of Fluids, 2013), 'Shear driven purging of negatively buoyant fluid from trapezoidal cavities' (Physics of Fluids, 2012), 'Natural convection stratification and scaling in a cavity with unsteady wall heating' (AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018), 'Vortex shedding suppression for flow over a circular cylinder near a plane boundary' (with 192 citations), and 'Effect of Thermal Stratification in Meandering Turbulent Open Channel Flow' (Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2023). He has secured computational resources from the National Computational Infrastructure for projects such as 'Stability and Transition of Conjugate Natural Convection Boundary Layers' and direct simulations of flow transitions. Armfield maintains a Google Scholar profile highlighting expertise in computational fluid dynamics, buoyant flows, and stability. He also serves on the Honorary Advisory Board of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE).

Professional Email: steven.armfield@sydney.edu.au