Staff and Students
Research Director
Prof. Arnaud Malan
Professor in Mechanical Engineering
SARChI Research Chair in Industrial Computational Fluid Dynamics
Staff
Dr. Leon Malan
Principal Scientific Officer
Incompressible two-phase flow with phase change
Shane Ferguson
Financial Administrator
Prof. Tunde Bello-Ochende
Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Thermodynamics, renewable & complex energy systems
Dr. Malebogo Ngoepe
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Computational Biomechanics
Honorary Staff
Prof. Jan Nordström
Honorary Professor in Computational Mathematics
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Roland W Lewis
Honorary Professor in Multi-Physics Computational Mechanics
Curriculum Vitae
Post Docs
Dr Bevan Jones
PhD - An Algebraic Volume of Fluid Method for Strongly Coupled Spacecraft Fuel Slosh Modelling
MSc - Mesh adaptation through r-refinement using a truss network analogy
Dr Niran Ilangakoon
PhD - A Higher-order VOF Interface Reconstruction Scheme for Non-orthogonal Structured Grids with Application to Surface Tension Modelling
MSc - A higher-order accurate surface tension modelling volume-of-fluid scheme for 2D curvilinear meshes
PhD Students
Roy Horwitz
PhD - Nonlinear aeroelasticity modelling - full and reduced order models
MSc - Nonlinear aeroelasticity modelling - full and reduced order models
Yusufali Oomar
PhD - Two-phase Weakly Compressible Flow with Phase Change
MSc - Two-Phase Compressible Flow with Surface Tension
Prince Nchupang
PhD - High order finite difference methods for incompressible flow.
Javon Farao
MSc - Toward a full aircraft model platform for fuel slosh-structure interaction simulations
Masters Students
Michael Wright
Non-linear Pressure Distribution Reduced Order Model for Violent Wing Tank Slosh
Alaa Mohammed Ali
Using Finite Element Method to model Mesh Deformation
Elrich Botha
Numerical Modelling of Reduced Order Models to Enable Slosh Load Calculations
Darrian J.P. Marais
Numerical coupling of Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) for the Ariane 6 upper stage