Current Research Interests
I am currently using CFD-ACE+ to model the transient structure of free surface and it's interactions with solid objects in civil engineering type hydraulic structures. I am particularly interested in investigating the effect turbulence modelling has on the location of the free surface. This work is based around a free surface modelling package with which I am writing custom code to estimate the turbulent viscosity (and hence dissipation) to feedback into the free surface model. I am also working on implementing a particle tracking routine to estimate, at first, the transient movement of massless, dimensionless particles with the eventual goal being to model particles with both mass and real sizes while still modeling the free surface using the Volume Fraction method.
Some still images and animations of results generated from the current research are available.
A list of my publications and presentations are also available.
Supporting Institutions
The research is being undertaken at the Faculty of Engineering, UTS. While based at the Infrastructure and Environment Group within the Faculty of Engineering we are strongly associated with the Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management which is a UTS designated key research area.
