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Dispersion of Contaminants in Turbulent Flows: Theory and Applications


Topic ID:
72

Thesis Topic/Title:
Dispersion of Contaminants in Turbulent Flows: Theory and Applications

Description

Centre manifold method is an accurate approach for analytically constructing an advection-diffusion equation (and even more accurate equations involving higher-order derivatives) for the depth-averaged concentration of substances in channels. This project is focused on a direct numerical verification of this method with examples of the dispersion in laminar and turbulent flows in open channels. The one-dimensional integrated radial basis function network (1D-IRBFN) method is used as a numerical approach to obtain a numerical solution for the original two-dimensional (2-D) advection-diffusion equation. The 2-D solution is depth-averaged and compared with the solution of the 1-D equation derived using the centre manifolds.


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Associate Supervisors

Research Affiliations
  • Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre

Field of Research
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Numerical and Computational Mathematics

Available Academic Programs
  • Doctor of Philosophy (DPHD)
  • Master of Research (MRES)

Application Open Date
29/02/2016

Application Close Date
31/12/2022

USQ Scholarship Applications

Pre-approved for Ethics
No

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