Key details
Professor Andrew Kao
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Andrew is a Programme Lead on Greenwich’s £9M Multi-Scale, Multi-Disciplinary, Modelling for Impact (M34Impact) expansion, leading the Materials Science and Engineering theme and leads the Centre for Advanced Simulation and Modelling.
He has 20 years of experience investigating the intricate coupling of microstructure solidification to various other phenomena, and leads the development of the ‘ThermoElectric Solidification Algorithm’ (TESA) software that has been used to predict the complex interaction of solidification, electromagnetism, fluid flow and heat and mass transport, revealing fundamental coupled mechanisms.
His expertise has been applied to a wide range of projects and applications from fundamental high undercooled solidification in microgravity to industry relevant applications such as casting and additive manufacturing.
Responsibilities within the university
- Programme Lead M34Impact
- Lead – Centre for Advanced Simulation and Modelling
- Co-Lead – Computational Science and Engineering Group
Research / Scholarly interests
Microstructure Solidification - Dendritic Growth
Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Electromagnetism
High Performance Computing
Key funded projects
2023 – 2028: £9.1M - Multi-Scale, Multi-Disciplinary, Modelling for Impact (M34Impact), Research England (PI)
2023 – 2028: £4.5M - Advanced Research in to Crystal Anisotropy and Nucleation Effects (ARCANE), EPSRC Prosperity Partnership (Greenwich PI)
2023 – 2026: £781k – Tailored Microstructures via Thermoelectric-Magnetohydrodynamics for Additive Manufacturing (TEAM), EPSRC (PI)
2022 – 2024: £12k – UK-Latvian Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamics in Additive Manufacturing (UK-LatTE-AM), Royal Society International Exchange (PI)
2022 – 2024: €200k – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship (Co-I/Host)
2022: £52k – £52k – Phase Transition in External Fields, British Council Researcher Links (PI)
2013 – 2016 - £278k - Disruptive Solidification Microstructures via Thermoelectric Control (TECalloy), EPSRC (named researcher)
2012 – 2016 - €20M Physical processing of molten light alloys under the influence of external fields (EXOMET), EU (Researcher)
2009 – Present – >£8M (in kind) Peritectic Rapid Solidification with Electromagnetic Convection (PARSEC), ESA (Co-I)