My Expertise
Hypersonics, turbulent fluid dynamics, nonequilibrium real-gas physics
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Turbulent flows, Hypersonic propulsion and hypersonic aerothermodynamics, Fundamental and theoretical fluid dynamics, Numerical solution of differential and integral equationsBiography
Dr David Petty joined UNSW Canberra as a lecturer in 2022. Research into high-fidelity variable-density turbulence modelling was undertaken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research scientists in the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion. Another active area of research is state-to-state modelling of vibrational nonequilibrium gasdynamics in supersonic expanding flows.
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Dr David Petty joined UNSW Canberra as a lecturer in 2022. Research into high-fidelity variable-density turbulence modelling was undertaken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research scientists in the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion. Another active area of research is state-to-state modelling of vibrational nonequilibrium gasdynamics in supersonic expanding flows.
Research Experience
- Hypersonics
- Turbulence Modelling and Simulation
- Nonequilibrium real-gas physics
My Qualifications
PhD (Aerospace Engineering), The University of Queensland, 2015
BE (Mechanical & Space) with Hons / BSc (Mathematics), The University of Queensland, 2009
My Research Activities
Current research activities:
- Thermochemical nonequilibrium modelling and simulation of supersonic nozzle flows
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) implementations on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
- Spectral modelling of hypersonic boundary-layer transition with automatic differentiation
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
- Hypersonics
- Turbulence Modelling and Simulation
- Nonequilibrium real-gas physics
Currently supervising
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo implementation on FPGAs
- Stochastic modelling of learning machines
- Studies of uncontrolled re-entry
My Teaching
Currently teaching:
- thermodynamics (as part of ZEIT2500 Thermofluids)
- fluid mechanics (as part of ZEIT2503)
Location
School of Engineering and Information Technology,
The University of New South Wales Canberra,
PO Box 7916,
Canberra BC ACT 2610,
AUSTRALIA
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-7220