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Position

Head
School of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Adelaide

Qualifications

Scholarships And Awards

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

Professional Societies

Personal Interests

Conference Organisation

2001

Fourteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Adelaide 2001 (Conference Secretary)

2001

Symposium in Memory of Tony Perry, Adelaide 2001 (Committee Member)

2002

2002 Australian Symposium on Combustion and 7th Australian Flame Days, Adelaide (Committee Member)

2002

Second International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics Sydney 2002 (Committee Member)

2005

Eighth Australian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (Committee member)

2005

Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Adelaide, South Australia (Secretary, Proceeding Co-Editor)

2005

Fourth Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion, Adelaide, South Australia (Secretary, Proceeding Co-Editor)

2007

International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 24th-30th August, 2008, Adelaide Australia

Current and Previous Research Projects

"Development of Retractable Floats for Sea Planes" this project is in collaboration with Tigerfish Aviation and is focussed on the development of the patented retractable floats for sea plane. For footage of the world first successful trial click here.

"MILD Combustion" in this project a study is underway to investigate the reaction zone structure of turbulent flames under MILD conditions. Both open flames and small furnace are being used to measure the influence of temperature and oxygen concentration on the structure of the flame.

"Two Photon CO Laser Induced Fluorescence technique", this technique is being developed to measure the concentration of carbon monoxide in flames. It has a good potential to give accurate measurements and is relatively easy to apply.

"Modelling Simple Jet Flows Using Wilcox-1998 k-Omega Turbulence Model", this project aimed at examining the performance of a newly proposed turbulence model in predicting round jet flows. This project was executed by Mr. Rick Morgans (a PhD student) and supervised by myself and Dr Gus Nathan.

"Turbulent reacting Jet Flows under Flameless Oxidation Regime", in this project the effects of recirculation of hot product back into the oxidant stream on the structure and propagation of turbulent reacting flames are examined. Laser diagnostics and sampling techniques will be used to measure the flame structure. Also advance turbulence and combustion models will be used to simulate these flows and compare with the experiments.

"Effect of Fluid Shear Forces on Plant Cell Suspensions", this project is run by the department of chemical engineering under the supervision of Professor Eric Dunlop and Dr David Williams and myself. Ms Darika Sowana is Ph.D. student who is using the CFX computational fluid dynamics package to calculate the shear stresses in a stirred tank and correlate their effect on plant cell growth.

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Contact Details

Address:

School of Mechanical Engineering

The University of Adelaide

South Australia 5005

Australia

Telephone:

-61-8-8303-5397

Mobile:

-61-410-617 357

Facsimile:

-61-8-8303-4367

Email:

bassam.dally@adelaide.edu.au

Useful Links

The Australian Friends of Palestine Association

Australian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society
TEC Group Web Page
Sydney University Data Base
TDF Laboratory at Sandia
14AFMC Web Page

ASPACC05 Web Site

Fourth Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion

Recent Refereed Journal Papers (B.B. Dally)

Books / Monographs / Symposia/ Book Chapter

A.R. Masri, B.B. Dally, R.S. Barlow, and C.D. Carter, 'The Structure of the Recirculation Zone of a Bluff-Body Combustor', Twenty Fifth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1994, pp.1301-1308

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri, R.S. Barlow, G.J. Fiechtner and D.F. Fletcher, 'Measurements of NO in Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames Stabilised on a Bluff Body', Twenty Sixth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1996, Vol 2, pp. 2191-2197

A.R. Masri, J.B. Kelman and B.B. Dally, 'The Instantaneous Spatial Structure of the Recirculation Zone in Bluff-Body Stabilised Flames', Twenty Seventh Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp. 1031-1038.

A.R. Masri, S.P. Pope and B.B. Dally, 'PDF Simulations of a Strongly Swirling Nonpremixed Flame Stabilized on a New Burner', Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2000, pp. 123-131

B.B. Dally, A.N. Karpetis, R.S. Barlow, 'Structure of Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flames in a Diluted Hot Coflow', Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 29 (2002), 1147-1154

S.H. Kim, K.Y. Huh and B.B. Dally, 'Conditional Moment Closure Modeling of Turbulent Nonpremixed Combustion in Diluted Hot Coflow', Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 30 (2005) 751-757

B.B. Dally, Editor, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 2001, Adelaide University

G.J. Nathan, B.B. Dally and P.M. Kalt, Editors, Proceedings of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, 2005, Adelaide University

B.B. Dally, J. Denier, R.M. Kelso and G.J. Nathan, Guest Editor, Experimental, Thermal and Fluid Sciences, 2004, Elsevier

Journal Articles

A.R. Masri, B.B. Dally, R.S. Barlow and C.D. Carter, 'The Structure of Laminar Diffusion Flames Inhibited with CF3Br', Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 113-114, pp. 17-34, 1996

B.B. Dally, D.F. Fletcher, and A.R. Masri, 'Modelling of Turbulent Flames Stabilised on a Bluff-Body', Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol. 2, 1998, pp. 193-219.

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri, R.S. Barlow and G.J. Fiechtner, 'Instantaneous and Mean Compositional Structure of Bluff-Body Stabilised Nonpremixed Flames', Combustion and Flame, Vol 114/1-2, pp. 119-148, 1998.

N. Swaminathan and B.B. Dally, 'Cross Stream Dependence of Conditional Averages in Elliptic Region of Flows Behind a Bluff-Body', Physics of Fluids, Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 2424-2426, 1998 (Brief Communication).

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri, R.S. Barlow and G.J. Fiechtner, 'Two-Photon Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurement of CO in Turbulent Nonpremixed Bluff Body Flames', Combustion and Flame, 132 (2002) 272-274

B.B. Dally, E. Riesmeier and N. Peters, 'Effect of Fuel Mixture on MILD Combustion', Combustion and Flame, 137 (2004) 418-431

F.C. Christo and B.B. Dally, 'Modelling Turbulent Reacting Jets Issuing into a Hot and Diluted Coflow', Combustion and Flame, 142 (2005) 117-129

Refereed Conference Papers

B.B. Dally and A.R. Masri, 'Inhibition of Laminar Counterflow Diffusion Flames with CF3BR' Proceedings of the Australian Symposium on Combustion, Newcastle, November 1993

B.B. Dally, D.F. Fletcher and A.R. Masri. 'Computation of Bluff Body Recirculating Flows' Proceedings of Tenth annual symposium of the Israeli section of the combustion institute, pp. 49-50, 1994

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri, R.S. Barlow and G.J. Fiechtner, 'NO Measurements in Bluff Body Stabilised Nonpremixed Flames' Proceedings of The Australian Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, 1995

B.B. Dally, D.F. Fletcher, A.R. Masri, 'Computations of a Non-reacting Bluff Body Jet Flow', Proceedings of the First Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Eds. W.H. Hui, Y.-K. Kwok, and J.R. Chasnov, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, pp. 177-182, 1995

D.F. Fletcher, B.B. Dally and A.R. Masri, 'Flow Field Computations for a Bluff-Body Combustor' Proceedings of the Sixth Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Eds. Y.T. Chew and C.P. Tso, Nanyang technological University, Singapore, pp. 697-700, 1995

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri and D.F. Fletcher, 'Modelling of Bluff-Body Recirculating Flows', Proceedings of the Twelfth Australian Fluid Mechanics Conference, The University of Sydney, pp. 529-532, Dec. 1995

A.R. Masri and B.B. Dally, 'On the Chemical Inhibition of Flames', Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer (6th: 1996: Sydney, N.S.W.), pp. 587-593, (Ed. Leonardi, E. and Madhusudana, C.V.)

B.B. Dally, A.R. Masri, R.S. Barlow and G.J. Fiechtner, 'Raman-Rayleigh-LIF Measurements of Nonpremixed Flames Stabilised on a Bluff-Body', Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion, Eds. A.R. Masri and D.R. Honnery, The University of Sydney, pp. 203-208, December 1996

J.B. Kelman, B.B. Dally and A.R. Masri, 'Mixture Fraction Imaging Using Single point data and Raman and Rayleigh Imaging', Proceedings of the First Australian Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics and Combustion, Eds. A.R. Masri and D.R. Honnery, The University of Sydney, pp. 209-2113, December 1996

B.B. Dally and A.R. Masri, 'The Extent of Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames', Proceedings of the 1997 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the Fifth Australian Flame Days, National Library of Australia, Cataloguing in Publication Data, A.R. Masri and J.C. Mackie (Eds.)

B.B. Dally and A.R. Masri, 'Measurements of Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames', Proceedings of the Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Monash University, Dec. 1998, Editors: M.c. Thompson and K. Hourigan.

A.R. Masri and B.B. Dally, 'Flowfield and Stability Characteristics of a Swirl Burner', Second Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-99), Taiwan, May 1999.

A.R. Masri and B.B. Dally, 'Flowfield Structure of a Methane Diffusion Flame Stabilised on a Swirl Burner', The 1999 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the Sixth Australian Flame Days, Newcastle, Australia, September 1999.

B.B. Dally, 'Laminar Nonpremixed Flame Calculations of Methane with Highly Preheated Air', The 1999 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the Sixth Australian Flame Days, Newcastle, Australia, September 1999.

R.C. Morgans, B.B. Dally, G.J. Nathan, P.V. Lansperay and D.F. Fletcher, 'Application of the Revised Wilcox (1998) k-ω Turbulence Model to a Jet in Co-Flow', Second International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne Australia, December 1999.

B.B. Dally, 'Palestinian Arabs in Israel: A Fifty Year Journey', The Australasian Middle East Studies Association Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1999.

D.D. Sowana, D.R.G. Williams, E.H. Dunlop, B.B. Dally, B.K. O'Neill and D.F. Fletcher, 'Turbulent Shear Stress Effects on Plant Cell Suspension Cultures', Proceedings of the International Symposium in Mixing in Industrial Processes, May 2001, France.

B.B. Dally, A.N. Karpetis, R.S. Barlow, 'The Effect of Oxygen Concentration on the Structure of Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames', 14 Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, December 2001, Adelaide, Australia. Editor: B. Dally.

B.B. Dally, A.N. Karpetis, R.S. Barlow, 'Structure of Jet Laminar Nonpremixed Flames under Diluted Hot Coflow Conditions', 2002 Australian Symposium on Combustion and The Seventh Australian Flame Days, January 2002, Adelaide, Australia.

S. Afsharvahid, P.V. Lanspeary, B.B. Dally, and F. Christo, 'On The Design Of An Ultra Lean Porous Burner', 2002 Australian Symposium on Combustion and The Seventh Australian Flame Days, January 2002, Adelaide, Australia.

G.G. Szego, B.B. Dally, G.J. Nathan and F.C. Christo, 'Design Optimisation of a MILD Combustion Furnace Based on CFD Modelling', Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the 8th Australian Flame Days, December 2003, D. Honnery (ed.), Monash University, Victoria.

S. Afsharvahid, B.B. Dally, and F. Christo, 'On The Stabilisation Of Ultra Lean Methane and Propane Flames in Porous Media', The Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, 2003, Nanjing, China, editors: Xu, X. and Zhao, C. Southeast University Press

S. Afsharvahid, B.B. Dally, and F. Christo, 'Numerical Study of flame stabilisation inside Porous Burner', Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the 8th Australian Flame Days, December 2003, D. Honnery (ed.), Monash University, Victoria.

Z.T. Alwahabi, J. Reppel, G.J. Nathan, K.D. King and B.B. Dally, 'Application of Saturated Laser Polarisation Spectroscopy in Combustion Diagnostics', Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Symposium on Combustion and the 8th Australian Flame Days, December 2003, D. Honnery (ed.), Monash University, Victoria.

E.J. Smith, G.J. Nathan, and B.B. Dally, (2003) "Assessment of a Simple 2-D Steady State Model of the Flow Field Emerging from the Precessing Jet Nozzle", 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, EMAC Proceedings, editors R.L. May and W.F. Blyth, 7-11 July, Sydney, Australia.

E.J. Smith, G.J. Nathan, and B.B. Dally, (2003) "Assessment of the Robustness of the K-Epsilon Model to Variations in Turbulence Constants for Simulation of Increased Jet Spreading", 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, EMAC Proceedings, editors R.L. May and W.F. Blyth, 7-11 July, Sydney, Australia.

G.J. Nathan, and B.B. Dally, (2003), "Challenges and Progress in the Modelling of Heat Transfer and NOx Emissions from Rotary Kiln Flames Involving Unsteady Flows", Lead Session Invited Lecture, Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 December 2003.

E.J. Smith, G.J. Nathan, and B.B. Dally, (2003) "Range Of Validity Of A Modified K-Epsilon Model Of The Non-Reacting Flow From A Precessing Jet Nozzle", Third International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, 10-12 December, Melbourne, Australia

E.J. Smith, G.J. Nathan, and B.B. Dally, (2004) "Preliminary Examination of a "Round Jet Initial Conditions Anomaly" for k-e Turbulence Model", 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Proceedings, Sydney, December 2004

F.C. Christo and B.B. Dally, (2004) 'Application of Transport PDF Approach for Modelling MILD Combustion', 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference Proceedings, Sydney, December 2004

Christo, F.C., Szego, G.G. and B.B. Dally, 'Modelling turbulent reacting jets under MILD combustion conditions', 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Adelaide, July 2005

Medwell, P.R., Kalt, P.A.M. and Dally, B.B., "Effect of Reynolds Number on the Spatial Distribution of OH and Formaldehyde in Jet Flames in a Heated and Diluted Coflow", 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, July 2005, Adelaide, Australia

Medwell, P.R., Kalt, P.A.M. and Dally, B.B., "Effect of Fuel Dilution on Jet Flames in a Heated and Diluted Coflow", 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, July 2005, Adelaide, Australia

Afsharvahid, S, and Dally, B.B., "Investigation of NOx reburning in a Porous Burner", 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, July 2005, Adelaide, Australia

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J., Qamar, N. and Dally, B.B., "Comparison of Thermocouple Temperature Measurements of Simple and Precessing Propane Flames", Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, July 2005, Adelaide, Australia

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