Fluid Mechanics Group
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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
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  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