Rate My Professor Arnaud Malan

Professor Arnaud Malan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He holds the DSTI-NRF South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Industrial Computational Fluid Dynamics. His qualifications include a PhD from the University of Wales Swansea awarded in 2002 and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (Cum Laude) from the University of Pretoria. Professor Malan serves as Director of the InCFD Research Group and teaches undergraduate courses including MEC4045F Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow and ThermoFluids at third-year level, as well as the postgraduate course MEC5069Z Computational Fluid Dynamics.

His research interests focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), aerodynamics and aerodynamic modelling, multi-physics computational mechanics modelling, higher order methods for CFD, and free-surface modelling. Professor Malan has presented on topics such as advances in high-fidelity modelling of heat and mass transfer in cryogenic tanks. He is affiliated with the Industrial CFD Research Group within the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment.