Fluid Mechanics Group
Contents:
Fluid Mechanics Faculty:
Faculty who are actively engaged in Fluid Mechanics Research in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial, along with a brief description of their interests, are listed below:
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Don W. Bass
Wave fields in landing platform docks, roll stabilisation for small fishing vessels, motions of small catamarans, ship-model correlation studies, fishing boat safety, discrete vortex methods -
Serpil Kocabiyik
unsteady separated flows, bluff-body wake flows, free-surface flows, Navier-Stokes problems, flow-induced vibrations, vortex-body/surface interactions
Fluid Mechanics Graduate Students and Recent Graduates:
Name | Type of HQP Training and Status |
Years Supervised or Cosupervised |
Title of Project or Thesis | Present Position |
Larisa A. Mironova |
Doctoral (Completed) |
Supervised 2003-2008 |
Accurate computation of flow past a cylinder beneath the free surface | Ph.D. Student, Memorial Univ. of NL |
Oleg I. Gubanov
|
Master's (Completed) |
Supervised 2004-07 |
Design of CFD code using high level programming paradigms: Free surface flow with arbitrary moving rigid bodies | Ph.D. Student, McGill University |
Karl P. Lawrence
|
Master's (Completed) |
Supervised 2002-04 |
Computation of unsteady viscous incompressible flow past an obliquely oscillating cylinder using parallelized finite difference algorithm | Ph.D. Student, University of Waterloo |
Qasem Al-Mdallal
|
Doctoral (Completed) |
Supervised 2000-04 |
Analysis and computation of the cross-flow past an oscillating cylinder with two degrees of freedom | Assist. Prof., United Arab Emirates Univ., UAE |
Fluid Mechanics Courses:
The regular fluid mechanics courses listed below are offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University.
- AM 4180 Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
- Math 6120 Theoretical Fluid Dynamics
Recommended Fluid Mechanics Related Courses:
The graduate courses listed below are offered by the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography; the Department of Earth Sciences and Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University.
- EASC 6177 Mathematical Formulations of Seismic Wave Phenomena
- ENGI 9901 Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
- ENGI 9998 Advanced Transport Phenomena
- PHYS 6321 Coastal Oceanography
- PHYS 6323 Stability Theory
- PHYS 6363 Laboratory Experiments in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
See Dr. Serpil Kocabiyik's personal home page -- fluid mechanics section for information on
- History of Fluid Mechanics
- Fluid Mechanics Links
- Fluid Dynamics Institutes/Laboratories
- Upcoming Fluid Mechanics Conferences