John Olsen is a Lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales. His research interests include:
Thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics.
Entropy generation minimisation and exergy analysis.
Combined heat & power systems.
Co and Trigeneration systems.
Hybrid vehicles.
The simulation of gas turbine engines, power stations, reciprocating piston engines, refrigeration systems, living systems, entropy, etc.
Turbulence.
Simulation philosophy.
Swarms.