Phd projects in fluid mechanics

 
 

I’ve supervised students across a wide range of areas within fluid mechanics. I’m always interested in hearing from students who wish to join my group and undertake a MRes (Master of Research) or PhD under my supervision.  If you are interested please send me a copy of your academic transcript and the areas you are interested in.


For details of Macquarie’s MRes and PhD programs, and how to apply, please read the details which can be found on the Department of Mathematics website. Suitably qualified students should also consider applying for a scholarship - details of scholarships, and how to apply, can be obtained from the Macquarie’s HDR Scholarship page.


I’m currently seeking outstanding students, and with a strong mathematical modelling background, to undertake PhDs in my group on the following projects, working in the exciting and challenging area of boundary-layer theory and transition to turbulence.


If you are interested in any developing a research career in the field of fluid mechanics please contact me via email to discuss further, or if you are in Sydney region drop in for a chat.

 

Information for potential Graduate Students

 

  1. Past and present post-graduate students

  2. Honours

  3. •Mr P. Williams Stability of heated Poiseuille flow, 1996 – 1997

  4. •Mr I. Raymond Potential flow equations for twin-body situations, 1997

  5. •Mr S. Primerano Water waves near shore, 1997.

  6. •Ms S. Scounos Trailing line vortices, 1997 – 1998

  7. •Mr D. Wiltshire Boundary layer flows over compliant surfaces, 1998

  8. •Mr S. Claxton Strange attractors, 1998

  9. •Mr M. Prodromos The development of overshoot in buoyant boundary layers, 2000

  10. •Mr M. J. Driscoll Accurate solutions of the lifting surface integral equations, 2000

  11. •Mr J. Gan Taylor vortices, 2001

  12. •Mr S. Hamsanathan Blood flow in arteries, 2002

  13. •Mr A. Tunney Stability of hypersonic flows, 2010-2011

  14. •Ms S. Calabretto Mathematics of the Brain, 2011


  1. Part IV Project Students


  3. •Mr A. Munro - Core annular jets, 2013

  4. •Mr M. Edmond - The flow through aquaculture pens, 2013

  5. •Ms N. Bahr - The flow within the umbilical cord, 2013

  6. •Mr H.S. Lee - Experimental model of the umbilical cord in normal and pathologic pregnancies,2014

  7. •Mr T. Ormsby - Designing aquaculture pens, 2014

  8. •Mr M. Lakadia - Non-classical stability theory, 2014

  9. •Mr M. Trengrove Slip, 2015



  2. Masters/M. Phil.


  4. •Mr M. Pereiaslavski Wind row generation, 1995

  5. •Mr A. Zecchin Decay of swirling pipe flow, 2013.

  6. •Mr J. Belperio Flow through elliptical coils, 2017



  1. PhD


  3. •Dr E.W.Mureithi Effects of thermal buoyancy on the stability properties of boundary layer flows, 1997

  4. •Dr I. Halatchev Hydrodynamic stability of systems with intensive mass transfer, 2000

  5. •Dr V. Stamatov Laser induced ignition, 2002

  6. •Dr E. J. Whitehead Trailing line vortices, 2009

  7. •Dr P. Dabrowski Centrifugal instabilities in Non-Newtonian fluid flows, 2009

  8. •Dr N. Jewell Corner boundary-layer flows, 2009

  9. •Dr S. Wade Very steep solitary waves in two-dimensional free surface flow, 2015

  10. •Dr S. Calabretto Instability and transition in unsteady rotating flows, 2015

  11. •Dr D. Wilke The effect of coiling upon blood flow and nutrient transport in the umbilical cord, 2016

  12. •Dr A. Tunney Stability of hypersonic flows, 2016

  13. •Dr E. Bretscher Boat hulls, 2018

  14. •Mr Mhd. Nisar The stability of radial jets

  15. •Ms S. Ceccacci The effect of slip on boundary-layer separation


  1. Past and present post-docs


  3. •Dr J. Stott (Research Associate), Jul. 1994 – Jul. 1995, Australian Research Council, Projects: The non–parallel stability of swirling jets, The existence of Gortler vortices within separated boundary layers

  4. •Dr Y. Stokes (Research Associate), Aug. 1998 – Oct. 1998, Australian Research Council, Project: Fluid dynamics of particle separators

  5. •Dr I. Halatchev (Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow), May 2001 – May 2004, Project: The effect of mass transfer on fluid flow instabilities

  6. •Dr J. Li (Australian Research Council funded Research Associate), September 2002 – December 2004, Project: A theoretical investigation into the effect of nonlinear waves interactions in promoting transition to turbulence

  7. •Dr T. Mattner (Australian Research Council funded Research Associate), Dec. 2003 – June 2006, Project: Optimal nose shaping for delayed boundary-layer separation and transition in axisymmetric flow

  8. •Dr R. Clarke (Australian Research Council funded Research Associate), Jan. 2006 - April 2008, Project: Understanding the fluid mechanics of unsteady friction

  9. •Dr P. Haines (Australian Research Council funded Research Associate), February 2010 – July 2012, Project: A novel approach to controlling boundary-layer separation

  10. •Dr Ben Levy (Faculty Research Development Fund Grant and ABI RDFG), July 2013 - Oct. 2016, Project: The flow through aquaculture pens and flow in coils

  11. •Dr Adam Tunney (Head’s Research Support), March 2016 - March 2018, Project: Stability of compressible boundary layers