Rate My Professor Dalton Harvie

Dalton Harvie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He holds a Bachelor's degree and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sydney. His research specialty is Multiphysics Fluid Dynamics (MFD), combining novel computational solution methods with experimentation to solve real-world problems in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.

Harvie leads the MFD research group, overseeing projects on electrokinetic microfluidic circuit analysis, contact angle hysteresis on rough surfaces, dairy processing such as milk ultrafiltration, droplet coalescence with applications to solvent extraction, cell migration within blood flow in collaboration with CSL Behring, and platelet flow and binding. His group has developed the arb multiphysics finite volume solver, originally created by Harvie and now collaboratively maintained. He has supervised multiple PhD students, including those working on two-phase electrokinetic flows, viscoelectric effects in nanofluidic channels, and blood coagulation modeling, with alumni now in academic and industry positions. Key publications include "An analysis of parasitic current generation in volume of fluid simulations" (Harvie, Davidson, and Rudman, 2006, Applied Mathematical Modelling), "Contact-angle hysteresis on rough surfaces: mechanical energy balance framework" (Harvie, 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics), "Shear Induced Interactions Cause Polymer Compression" (Dunstan and Harvie, 2020, Scientific Reports), "Viscoelectric Effects in Nanochannel Electrokinetics" (Harvie et al., 2017, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C), and "Isoelectric Focusing in a Silica Nanofluidic Channel: Effects of Nanoconfinement and Viscoelectricity" (Harvie et al., 2014, Analytical Chemistry). Harvie's research has garnered over 3,200 citations on Google Scholar. He also coordinates the Sustainability and Environment major in the Chemical Engineering program.