Nhan Phan-Thien

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Nhan Phan-Thien
BornOctober 31, 1952 (1952-10-31) (age 71)
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Sydney (Ph.D., 1979)
University of Sydney (Mech. Eng. 1st Honours, University Medalist, 1975)
Awards Australian Academy of Science

ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology
Centenary Medal
Gordon Bell Prize
Australian Society of Rheology Medal
Edgeworth David Medal

Contents

Senior Fulbright Scholar
Scientific career
Fields Rheology
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Institutions National University of Singapore

Nhan Phan-Thien, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (born October 31, 1952, in AnGiang, Vietnam), is an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. [1] He has been an associate editor of Physics of Fluids since 2016, currently one of its Deputy Editors since 2023 [2] , and an editorial board member of Journal Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. [3] He held a Personal Chair at University of Sydney [1991-02] and head of the Mechanical Engineering Department National University of Singapore [2016–19]. His contribution to the rheology field includes the PPT (Phan-Thien – Tanner) model for viscoelastic fluid (1516 citations) and its variant (670 citations). [4] He is the author and co-author of several books in rheology [5]

Education

Phan-Thien graduated from the University of Sydney, Sydney Australia, with a BEng (Mech. Eng. 1st Honours, University Medalist, 1975). He later completed a PhD degree at the University of Sydney, the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979. [6]

Career

He has been a faculty member in mechanical engineering at University of Newcastle (Australia) (1978–80) and at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (1980–02). At the University of Sydney, he held a personal chair (1991–02). He was a professor of mechanical engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore (2000–04, 2011–present). He was the founding chair in Bio-Engineering Division, which later becomes known as Biomedical Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore. [7] He has held visiting professorships in Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, US, Caltech, California, US, and Stanford University, California, US, a Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, [8] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia, [9] and an honorary professor at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. [10]

Research

Phan-Thien and his group have published extensively on the rheology of polymeric liquids, computational and constitutive modelling. [11]

Honours and awards

Books

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References

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