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Associate Professor Jim Denier

Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics

Office: 354 | Telephone: +61 8 8303 5407 | Personal homepage [1]

Academic duties

Responsibility
Head of School
Chair of the Curriculum Committee
Member of the Academic Board
Convenor of Fluid Mechanics Seminars
Member of the Research Committee

Teaching duties

Title Level Semester
Advanced Mathematical Methods [2] 4 [3] 1

Postgraduate supervision

Thesis title Student Graduation
The stability of multiple wing-tip vortices [4] James Whitehead [5] 2009
Boundary-layer flows in non-Newtonian fluids [6] Paul Dabrowski [7] 2009
Copulas for credit derivative pricing and other applications [8] Glenis Crane [9] 2009
Mathematical modelling of free-surface flows [10] Stephen Wade [11]

Research interests

Research interest Group
Hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence [12] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [13]
Boundary-layer flows [14] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [15]
Tip vortices [16] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [17]
Non-Newtonian flows [18] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [19]
Two phase flows [20] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [21]
Shape optimisation for drag reduction [22] Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [23]

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

Selected publications

Publications
On the growth (and suppression) of very short-scale disturbances in mixed forced-free convection boundary layers
Denier, James; Duck, P; Li, J-M, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 526 (147–170) 2005
The instability of the flow in a suddenly blocked pipe
Jewell, Nathaniel; Denier, James, Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 59 (651–673) 2006
Unsteady fronts in the spin-down of a fluid-filled torus
del Pino, C; Hewitt, R; Clarke, Richard; Mullin, T; Denier, James, Physics of Fluids 20 (124104-1–124104-5) 2008
On the boundary-layer equations for power-law fluids
Denier, James; Dabrowski, Paul, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 460 (3143–3158) 2004
Asymptotic matching constraints for a boundary-layer flow of a power-law fluid
Denier, James; Hewitt, R, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 518 (261–279) 2004

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