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Guy Metcalfe is a researcher and inventor whose work explores chaos, nonlinear dynamics, and Lagrangian coherent structures. Lagrangian structures are the mathematical "highways" of material transport; they control and mediate all interactions, heat and mass transport, and reaction in flowing materials. So Guy's work has generated many commercial inventions, including design of super efficient manufacturing processes, microfluidic diagnostic devices, geothermal energy and contaminant remediation technologies. Chaos is also useful to understand natural transport processes in, e.g., lung, blood, granular and magma flows, and in the thermodynamics of soft matter. Guy is a physicist, but as chaos is inherently interdisciplinary, in science and commercial applications, leading or contributing to teams, Guy continues widely interdisciplinary collaborations in the search to create something radically different but demonstrably better. Work over the entire spectrum from fundamental science to usage in the factory and field satisfies Guy's twin urges towards beauty and purpose.
Guy lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Lila and their three children, where he is a principal consultant for Universal Mixing Solutions and an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, after spending 20 years with the Australian national laboratory's (CSIRO) late Fluids Group and 3 years with the Monash University School of Mathematical Sciences. |