Associate Professor Jim Denier

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics

Office: 626 | Telephone: +61 8 8313 5407 | Personal homepage

Academic duties

Responsibility
Head of School
Member of the Academic Board
Convenor of Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series
Member AMSI Education Committee
Member General Assembly IUTAM
Chair of Australian Academy of Science National Committee for the Mechanical Sciences

Teaching duties

Title	Level	Semester
Fluid Mechanics III	3	2

Honours supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Hypersonic boundary layer stability theory	Adam Tunney	2011
Mathematical models of neuron firing	Sophie Calabretto	2011

Doctor of Philosophy supervision

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
The development and stability of some non-planar boundary-layer flows	Nathaniel Jewell	2009
Boundary-layer flows in non-Newtonian fluids	Paul Dabrowski	2009
The stability of multiple wing-tip vortices	James Whitehead	2009
Mathematical modelling of free-surface flows	Stephen Wade
Fluid mixing	Kale Davies
Flow in an annulus	Sophie Calabretto
Compressible flows	Adam Tunney
Blood flow in the coiled umbilical cord	David Wilke

Research interests

Research interest	Group
Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Boundary-layer flows	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Tip vortices	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Non-Newtonian flows	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Two phase flows	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Shape optimisation for drag reduction	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Research grants

Grant title	Funding Agency
The development and breakdown of external-corner boundary layers	Adelaide University
Control of boundary-layer separation using shear-thinning fluids	Australian Academy of Science
Breakdown and continua of states in the boundary-layer flow of non-Newtonian fluids	Adelaide University ECMS
The stability and control of wing tip vortices	The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund
A theoretical investigation into the effect of nonlinear wave interactions in promoting transition-to-turbulence	ARC
Optimal nose shaping for delayed boundary-layer separation and transition in axisymmetric flow	ARC
Understanding the fluid mechanics of unsteady friction	ARC
The effect of diffusive mass transfer on interfacial instabilities	ARC
South Australian Supercomputing Facility (with Williams et al.)	ARC
South Australian Supercluster Facility	ARC
Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet)	ARC
A novel approach to controlling boundary-layer separation	ARC