By Professor Robert Taylor

Conference Papers

Li Q; Zheng C; Gu X; Rosengarten G; Hawkes E; Yang M; Taylor R, 2014, 'Design and analysis of a low-profile, concentrating solar thermal collector', in Kasagi N (ed.), International Heat Transfer Conference 15, Begell House, Kyoto, Japan, presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 10 August 2014 - 15 August 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1615/IHTC15.sol.008611

Taylor R; Yang M; Bandara A; Morrison K; Ashraf A; Hawkes E, 2014, 'Design and analysis of a rooftop solar furnace', in Kasagi N (ed.), International Heat Transfer Conference 15, Kyoto, Japan, presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 10 August 2014 - 15 August 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1615/IHTC15.sol.008410

Phelan P; Abdelaziz O; Otanicar T; Phelan B; Prasher R; Taylor R; Tyagi H, 2014, 'THE IMPACT OF THERMAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE', in Kasagi N (ed.), nternational Heat Transfer Conference 15, Kyoto, Japan, presented at Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 10 August 2014 - 15 August 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1615/IHTC15.ees.008895

Law E; Kay M; Taylor R, 2014, 'Assessing the economic benefit of forecasting concentrated solar thermal energy output', in Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference, Australian Solar Energy Society (Australian Solar Council) Melbourne May 2014, Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, presented at Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, 08 May 2014 - 09 May 2014, http://solar.org.au/papers/14papers/%2324_final.pdf

Hewakuruppu YL; Taylor RA; Tyagi H; Otanicar TP, 2014, 'Limits of nanofluid based direct absorption solar collection', in O' Farrel M (ed.), Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference, Australian Solar Energy Society (Australian Solar Council) Melbourne May 2014, Australian Solar Council, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, presented at Solar2014: The 52nd Annual Conference of the Australian Solar Council, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 08 May 2014 - 09 May 2014, http://solar.org.au/news-2/solar-2014-conference-and-expo/

Gard S; Taylor R; McGill I, 2014, 'OPTIMISED OPERATION OF A CONCENTRATING SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANT WITH STORAGE', in Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference, Australian Solar Energy Society (Australian Solar Council), Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 1 - 10, presented at Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, 08 May 2014 - 09 May 2014, http://solar.org.au/papers/14papers/%2358_final.pdf

Crisostomo ; Taylor R; Rosengarten G; Everett V; Hawkes , 2014, 'Performance of a linear Fresnel-based concentrating hybrid PV/T collector using selective spectral beam splitting', in O'Farrell M (ed.), Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition Proceedings 8 - 9 May 2014 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australian Solar Council / AUPVSEE, Melbourne, VIC, presented at Solar 2014 Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC, 08 May 2014 - 09 May 2014, http://solar.org.au/papers/14papers/%2350_final.pdf

Sundarraj P; Maity D; Roy SS; Taylor R, 2013, 'An Innovative Design of a Tri-Segmented Parabolic Trough Solar Thermoelectric Receiver Tube for Multi-Component Energy Conversion', in Proceedings of the IEEE International conference on Green Computing, Communication and Conservation of Energy (ICGCE 2013), IEEE, Chennai, India, presented at IEEE International conference on Green Computing, Communication and Conservation of Energy 2013, Chennai, India, 12 December 2013 - 14 December 2013

Mittal T; Saroha S; Bhalla V; khullar V; Tyagi H; Taylor RA; Otanicar T, 2013, 'Numerical Study of Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) Hybrid Collector Using Nanofluids', in Proceedings of 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, presented at 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT-13), University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 11 December 2013 - 14 December 2013

Wong J; Taylor R; Baek S; Hewakuruppu Y; Jiang X; Chen C, 2013, 'Temperature measurements of a gold nanosphere solution in response to light-induced hyperthermia', in Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2013) - Volume 8A: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Diego, CA, pp. 1 - 8, presented at ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego, CA, USA, 15 November 2013 - 21 November 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-66424

Pawell RS; Taylor RA; Inglis DW; Barber TJ, 2013, 'Jet Formation in Micro-post Arrays', in Pawell RS (ed.), Applied Mechanics and Materials, Sydney, Australia, presented at Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Australia, 03 October 2013 - 04 October 2013, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ryan_Pawell/

Granjon R; Burgun F; Boudehenn F; Taylor R, 2013, 'Simulation as a design tool for solar cooling systems in humid, tropical climates', in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, Chambery, France, pp. 1 - 8, presented at Building Simulation, Chambery, France, 25 August 2013 - 28 August 2013

Granjeon R; Burgun F; Taylor R; Boudehenn F, 2013, 'SIMULATION AS A DESIGN TOOL FOR SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS IN HUMID, TROPICAL CLIMATES', in Wurtz E (ed.), BUILDING SIMULATION 2013: 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOCIATION, INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA, FRANCE, Chambery, pp. 990 - 997, presented at 13th International Conference of the International-Building-Performance-Simulation-Association (IBPSA), FRANCE, Chambery, 25 August 2013 - 28 August 2013, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000414802201003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Crisostomo J; Taylor R; Mojiri A; Hawkes ER; Surjadi ; Rosengarten G, 2013, 'Beam Splitting System for the Development of a Concentrating Linear Fresnel Solar Hybrid PV/T Collector', in ASME 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference : Volume 1: Heat Transfer in Energy Systems; Thermophysical Properties; Theory and Fundamental Research in Heat Transfer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, presented at ASME Annual Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 14 July 2013 - 19 July 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/HT2013-17221

Taylor R; Chung D; Morrison K; Hawkes ER, 2013, 'Modeling and testing of a thermal storage battery', in ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, pp. 1 - 8, presented at ASME Energy Sustainability, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 14 July 2013 - 19 July 2013

Gu X; Taylor R; Rosengarten G, 2013, 'Optical Analysis of a New CPC-Based Solar Collector Designed for Hydrogen Production', in ASME 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference : Volume 1: Heat Transfer in Energy Systems; Thermophysical Properties; Theory and Fundamental Research in Heat Transfer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, NY, pp. 1 - 9, presented at ASME Annual Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 14 July 2013 - 19 July 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/HT2013-17226

Soni S; Tyagi H; Taylor R; Kumar A, 2013, 'Spatiotemporal Temperature in a Tumor During Nanorod Assisted Thermal Therapy', in Proceedings of the ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, ASME, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 1 - 6, presented at ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, Boston, MA, USA, 04 February 2013 - 06 February 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/NEMB2013-93053

Pawell RS; Barber TJ; Inglis DW; Taylor RA, 2013, 'Limits of parabolic flow theory in microfluidic particle separation - A computational study', in ASME 2013 4th International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, MNHMT 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/MNHMT2013-22035

Hewakuruppu Y; Dombrovsky L; Timchenko V; Yeoh GH; Jiang X; Taylor R, 2013, 'Optimisation of Metallic Nanoshell Suspensions for Radiation Experiments', in International Journal of Transport Phenomena, Old City Publishing, Inc, pp. 233 - 244, http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/IJTP/IJTPcontents/IJTPv13n3contents.html

Zhao Y; Law E; Taylor R; Vishwakarma V; Tyagi H; Law E, 2012, 'A Solar Absorption Radiant Cooling System for Subtropical Regions', in Australian Solar Energy Society 50th Annual Conference, AuSES, Melbourne, pp. 1 - 9, presented at AuSES 50th Annual Conference, Melbourne, 07 December 2012 - 09 October 2012

Sultana T; Morrison GL; Taylor R; Rosengarten G, 2012, 'Performance of a Linear Fresnel Rooftop Mounted Concentrating Solar Collector', in Australian Solar Energy Society 50th Annual Conference, AuSES, Australia, pp. 1 - 10, presented at AuSES 50th Annual Conference, Melbourne, 07 December 2012

Gu X; Taylor R; Rosengarten G, 2012, 'Design of a Novel Micro Solar Concentrator', in Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Auckland, NZ, pp. Paper #149, presented at International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Auckland, NZ, 19 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Lin C; Gunawan A; Lin C; Mujica V; Taylor R; Prasher R; Phelan P, 2012, 'Optimization of Cell Configuration for Maximizing Performance of a Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cell', in Proceedings of the 2012 IMECE Conference, ASME, Huston, Texas, pp. IMECE2012-88796 - IMECE2012-88796, presented at International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Huston, Texas, USA, 09 November 2012 - 15 November 2012

Vishwakarma V; Singhal N; Khullar V; Tyagi H; Taylor R; Jain A; Otanicar T, 2012, 'Space Cooling Using the Concept of Nanofluids-Based Direct Absorption Solar Collectors', in Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, ASME, Huston, Texas, USA, pp. IMECE2012-87726 - IMECE2012-87726, presented at International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Huston, Texas, USA, 09 November 2012 - 15 November 2012

Taylor R; Otanicar T; Rosengarten G; Hawkes ER; Coulombe S, 2012, 'Tunable Optical Filtration Using Liquid Nanofluids', in International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, International ASET Inc., Montreal, Canada, pp. Paper # 249 - Paper # 249, presented at International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications, Montreal, Canada, 07 August 2012 - 09 August 2012

Lv W; Phelan P; Otanicar T; Taylor R; Swaminathan R; Dai L; Prasher R, 2012, 'Plasmon-Enhanced Properties of Metallic Nanostructures and Their Application to Direct Solar Absorption Receivers', in Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Puerto Rico, USA, pp. HT2012-58183 - HT2012-58183, presented at ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Puerto Rico, USA, 08 July 2012 - 12 July 2012

Khullar V; Tyagi H; Phelan P; Otanicar T; Singh H; Taylor R, 2012, 'Solar Energy Harvesting using a Nanofluid-Based Concentrating Solar Collectors', in 3rd Annual Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. MNHMT2012-75329 - MNHMT2012-75329, presented at ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, 03 March 2012 - 06 March 2012

Lv W; Otanicar T; Phelan P; Dai L; Taylor R; Swaminathan R, 2012, 'Surface Plasmon Resonance Shifts of a Dispersion of Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Efficient Solar Absorption', in 3rd Annual Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. MNHMT2012-75090 - MNHMT2012-75090, presented at 3rd Annual Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, 03 March 2012 - 06 March 2012

Baek S; Taylor R; Barber TJ, 2012, 'Development of a Dynamic Testing Device for Predicting the Enhanced Permeation and Retention (EPR) Effect of Different Nanoparticles in Tumor Vessels', in Proceedings of the ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Boston, MA, USA, pp. 1 - 6, presented at ASME 2013 2nd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology, Boston, MA, USA, 04 February 2012 - 06 February 2012

Taylor R; Coulombe S; Otanicar T; Phelan P; Gunawan A; Lv W; Rosengarten G; Prasher R; Tyagi H, 2012, 'Critical Review of the Novel Applications and Uses of Nanofluids', in 3rd Annual Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. MNHMT2012-75189 - MNHMT2012-75189

Taylor RA; Phelan P; Adrian R; Gunawan A; Otanicar T, 2011, 'Characterization of a nanofluid volumetric solar absorber / steam generator', in ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2011, pp. 1927 - 1936, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ES2011-54062

Otanicar T; Phelan PE; Dai L; Swaminathan R; Taylor R, 2011, 'Using nanofluids to enhance the operation of solar energy systems', in Technical Proceedings of the 2011 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2011, pp. 445 - 448

Taylor RA; Phelan PE; Adrian R; Prasher R; Otanicar TP, 2011, 'Nanofluid extinction coefficients for photothermal energy conversion', in ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ajtec2011-44124

Taylor R; Phelan P; Gunawan A; Adrian RJ; Otanicar T, 2011, 'Characterization of a Small Direct Volumetric Steam Generator', in Characterization of a Small Direct Volumetric Steam Generator, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington DC, pp. 54062-1 - 54062-10, presented at ASME 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Washington DC

Taylor R; Phelan P; Adrian RJ; Prasher R; Otanicar T, 2011, 'Nanofluid Extinction Coefficients for Photothermal Energy Conversion', in Proceeding of the ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Honolulu, HI, USA, presented at Proceeding of the ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA

Otanicar TP; Phelan PE; Taylor RA; Tyagi H, 2010, 'Tuning the extinction coefficient for direct absorption solar thermal collector optimization', in ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2010, pp. 819 - 824, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ES2010-90022

Collins DP; Holmes MJ; Taylor RA; Oliver RA; Kappers MJ; Humphreys CJ, 2010, 'Q-factor measurements on planar nitride cavities', in Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics, pp. 1866 - 1868, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssc.200983474

Taylor R; Phelan P; Otanicar T; Tyagi H; Trimble S, 2010, 'Applicability of Nanofluids in Concentrated Solar Energy Harvesting', in ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Phoenix, AZ, USA, pp. 90055-1 - 90055-8, presented at ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Phelan P; Taylor R; Adrian RJ; Prasher R; Otanicar T, 2010, 'Photothermal Energy Conversion in Liquid-Nanoparticle Suspensions', in 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada, pp. 781 - 787, presented at 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada

Turnbull B; Taylor R; Blundell B, 2009, 'The anatomy of electronic evidence - Quantitative analysis of police e-crime data', in Proceedings - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2009, pp. 143 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ARES.2009.118

Otanicar T; Taylor R; Phelan P; Prasher R, 2009, 'IMPACT OF SIZE AND SCATTERING MODE ON THE OPTIMAL SOLAR ABSORBING NANOFLUID', in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1 - 6, presented at ASME, San Francisco, CA, 19 July 2009 - 23 July 2009

Otanicar T; Taylor RA; Phelan PE; Prasher R, 2009, 'IMPACT OF SIZE AND SCATTERING MODE ON THE OPTIMAL SOLAR ABSORBING NANOFLUID', in ES2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY, VOL 1, AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, CA, San Francisco, pp. 791 - 796, presented at 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, CA, San Francisco, 19 July 2009 - 23 July 2009, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000281910700096&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Taylor R; Adrian RJ; Phelan P; Otanicar T; Prasher R, 2009, 'Experimental Results for Light Induced Boiling in Water-Based Nanoparticle Suspensions', in ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Francisco, CA, pp. 88176-1 - 88176-9, presented at ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009

Lee KH; Na JH; Birner S; Yi SN; Taylor RA; Park YS; Park CM; Kang TW, 2007, 'Characterization of tunneling and free-carrier screening in coupled asymmetric GaN/AlGaN quantum discs', in AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 1003 - 1004, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2730234

Lee KH; Na JH; Birner S; Yi SN; Taylor RA; Park YS; Park CM; Kang TW, 2007, 'Two-photon excitation of asymmetric GaN/AlGaN quantum discs', in AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 981 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2730223

Taylor RA; Solbrekken GL, 2006, 'Optimization of thermoelectric cooling for microelectronics', in 2006 PROCEEDINGS 10TH INTERSOCIETY CONFERENCE ON THERMAL AND THERMOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA IN ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS, VOLS 1 AND 2, IEEE, CA, San Diego, pp. 483 - +, presented at 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, CA, San Diego, 30 May 2006 - 02 June 2006, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000243624500067&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Taylor R; Solbrekken G, 2006, 'Optimization of Thermoelectric Cooling for Microelectronics', in 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, IEEE, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 0-7803-9524-7/06 - 0-7803-9524-7/06, presented at 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, San Diego, CA, USA, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01645383

Taylor RA; Robinson JW; Rice JH; Lee KH; Jarjour A; Na JH; Yasin S; Oliver RA; Kappers MJ; Humphreys CJ; Andrew G; Briggs D; Williams DP; O'Reilly EP; Andreev AD; Arakawa Y, 2005, 'Time-resolved dynamics in single InGaN quantum dots', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, pp. 296 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.583431

Taylor R; Solbrekken G, 2005, 'An Improved Optimization Approach for Thermoelectric Refrigeration Applied to Portable Electronic Equipment', in Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging InterPack 2005, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, San Francisco, CA, presented at Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging, San Francisco, CA, 17 July 2005 - 22 July 2005

Taylor RA; Solbrekken GL, 2005, 'An Improved Optimization Approach for Thermoelectric Refrigeration Applied to Portable Electronic Equipment', in Advances in Electronic Packaging, Parts A, B, and C, ASMEDC, presented at ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems collocated with the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, 17 July 2005 - 22 July 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipack2005-73190

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