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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