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Centre for Engineering and Applied Mathematics (CEAM)

The Centre for Engineering and Applied Mathematics (CEAM) is one of 4 programs within the Institute of Mathematics and Applied Statistics (IMAS). The activities of the research group cover a very broad range of the mathematical sciences and are directed towards

  
  • nonlinear continuum mechanics including large elastic deformations of rubberlike materials
  • granular materials
  • elasticity and fracture mechanics
  • nonlinear waves
  • microwave heating
  • combustion theory
  • bioreactor engineering
  • chemical reaction engineering
  • computational environmental fluid dynamics
  • applied nonlinear dynamical systems
  • Lie group analysis of nonlinear differential equations
  • oceanography
  • rail development
  • computational mathematics

The strong links between the groupings within IMAS is a crucial feature of CEAM’s research culture and enables a very productive research environment.
 
Aims of CEAM:

  • Perform quality research in industrial, computational and applied mathematics according to the highest international standard

  • Obtain motivation for research topics from industry, scientific fields and various sectors of the community

  • Emphasise the interdisciplinary cooperation between the groups in IMAS

  • Attract gifted postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students and provide them with an environment in which to prepare them for international careers in industry or academia

  • Promote, through its work, the role of mathematics in industry, science and society.
 
Staff:

The current members of CEAM are:

Professor

Jim Hill

Associate Professor

Des Clarke (Retired)
Phil Laird
Tim Marchant
Songping Zhu

Senior Lecturer

Joanna Goard 
Mark Nelson
Annette Worthy

Lecturer

Grant Cox
Maureen Edwards
Xiaoping Lu

Research Fellow

Miccal Matthews
Natalie Thamwattana


Back row: Song-Ping Zhu, Xiao-Ping Lu, Frank Beirbrauer, Tim Marchant, Natalie Thamwattana, Jim Hill
Front row: Maureen Edwards, Joanna Goard, Grant Cox, Mark Nelson,
Sayed Mohammad Hoseini

 

 

 

Postgraduate Students:

  
Isobel Frean
Sayed Hoseini
 
 
New recruits are integrated into the research environment by allocation of a mentor and involvement in the running of the group’s research activities (eg seminar series, co-supervising research students etc).

Most of the members of CEAM are members of ANZIAM, the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics division of the Australian Mathematical Society. They regularly support the ANZIAM annual conferences as well as the Mathematics in Industry study group (MISG), a workshop based on problems from all kinds of businesses and industries.
 
Seminars

 

Possible PhD topics for future students:

  • Spontaneous Combustion of Compost Heaps
  • Mathematical Modelling of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
  • Mathematical Modelling of Bioreactors
  • Poisoning of catalytic surfaces.
  • Heterogeneously catalysed combustion: Analysis of simple mathematical models.
  • Carbon monoxide oxidation over catalysts.
  • Singularity theory analysis of reaction-diffusion-advection models arising in chemical reactor engineering.
  • Analysis of reaction-diffusion cells.
  • The use of natural oscillations to improve product yield in bioreactors.
  • Cool Flames and Engine Knock
  • Periodic Forcing to improve the yield of heterogeneously catalysed bimolecular reactions.
  • Semi-analytical solutions for reaction-diffusion equations.
 

 

Updated 27/4/05
 
 

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