Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sydney in 1996. He then worked with the international building engineering consultancy Ove Arup & Partners in Sydney and their London office. Michael returned to Australia in 1998 to study for a PhD at the University of Sydney. On completion of his PhD in 2002, he was awarded a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University and NASA Ames. In 2004 he accepted a lecturing position in the School of Engineering at the University of Tasmania. In 2006 Michael returned to the University of Sydney where he is currently an Associate Professor in Fluids, Energy and Environment in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering.

Research interests

Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick's research focuses on developing new and more accurate mathematical river-simulation models to predict the effects of weather, climate and flow-rate changes on water quality, enabling better management of Australia's rivers and estuaries.

"My current research focuses on the effects of thermal stratification in rivers. This occurs mostly as a result of heating by the sun, which causes the water near the surface of the river to become warmer than the water deeper down. The warm surface water is lighter than the cooler water below, so it floats on top like a hot-air balloon floats in the sky. This prevents the mixing of water that is essential for the river to remain healthy.

"A lack of mixing prevents oxygen from being carried to the deep waters, and prevents contaminants in the deep waters from escaping, making it acidic and toxic. If this situation lasts for more than a couple of days we end up with serious environmental problems, such as algal blooms, mass fish deaths and damage to the river's ecosystems.

"There are a number of natural physical processes that break down this stratification and allow a river to mix properly, and the basic idea behind my research is to develop models that can predict how effectively these processes will be operating over the coming week or so, given the current weather and flow conditions. If the model predicts a level of mixing that may lead to environmental problems, then river management authorities can increase the flow rate by releasing water into the river from upstream storage reservoirs, to prevent this from occurring.

"My aim is to develop a new generation of river-management tools that will enable us to optimise water allocation, balance the needs of all water users, and maximise both economic and environmental benefits."

Below are some videos from simulations completed for this project. Details are in the description on Youtube. These simulations were completed with my computational fluid dynamics code PUFFIN.

Day-time river flow with solar radiative heating

Night-time river flow with surface cooling

Day-time flow through a sharp river meander with solar radiative heating

Teaching and supervision

MECH3261 - Fluid Mechanics 2 (Senior)

MECH8261 - Fluid Mechanics 2 (Postgraduate)

MECH9261 - Fluid Mechanics 2 (Postgraduate)

MECH3260 - Thermal Engineering & Environment (Senior)

MECH8260 - Thermal Engineering & Environment (Postgraduate)

MECH9260 - Thermal Engineering & Environment (Postgraduate)

MECH5275 - Renewable Energy

Associations

Themes

Water and the environment

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Plume transport in turbulent urban flows: the effects of natural convection and vegetation models	Isadora MONTENEGRO BUGARIN
A real-time high fidelity dispersion model based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM ) including a 2025-2040 roadmap to the adoption of LES for real-time plume modelling	Brendan WATERS

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Dong, L., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Khatamifar, M. (2023). Direct numerical simulation of “fountain filling box” flow with a confined weak laminar plane fountain. Heat Transfer, 52(1), 193-215. [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2023). Effect of Thermal Stratification in Meandering Turbulent Open-Channel Flow with Varying Sinuosity. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (New York), 149(9). [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2022). Amplification of turbulence by sharp meanders on thermally stratified open channel flow. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 94, 1-9. [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2022). Characterising entrainment in fountains and negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 939, A29. [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2022). Effects of meander curvature in thermally stratified turbulent open-channel flow. Physics of Fluids, 34(9). [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2022). Turbulence structure in a very sharp thermally stratified open-channel meander. Physics of Fluids, 34(3). [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Talluru, K. (2021). Entrainment and structure of negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A21. [More Information]
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2021). Natural convection in a cavity with time-dependent flux boundary. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 92, 108887. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Zecevic, V. (2020). Destratification of thermally stratified turbulent open-channel flow by surface cooling. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 829, A29-36. [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2020). Experimental investigation into turbulent negatively buoyant jets using combined PIV and PLIF measurements. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 82, 1-8. [More Information]
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2020). Natural convection in a cavity with time-varying thermal forcing on a sidewall. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 150, 1-11. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2020). Rectangular lattice Boltzmann method using multiple relaxation time collision operator in two and three dimensions. Computers and Fluids, 202, 104492. [More Information]
Talluru, K., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Milton-McGurk, L. (2020). Turbulence structure of neutral and negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 909, 1-26. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Zecevic, V. (2019). Evolution of thermally stratified turbulent open channel flow after removal of the heat source. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876, 356-412. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2018). Entrainment across a sheared density interface in a cavity flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 835, 999-1021. [More Information]
Chen, Y., Verlinde, J., Clothiaux, E., Ackerman, A., Fridlind, A., Chameki, M., Kollias, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Chen, B., Yu, G., et al (2018). On the Forward Modeling of Radar Doppler Spectrum Width From LES: Implications for Model Evaluation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(14), 7444-7461. [More Information]
Khatamifar, M., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Holmes, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2017). Conjugate natural convection heat transfer in a partitioned differentially-heated square cavity. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 81, 92-103. [More Information]
Khatamifar, M., Wood, E., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). A Multigrid Accelerated Code for Simulating Unsteady Conjugate Natural Convection Boundary Layers. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 846, 30-35. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Norris, S. (2016). Convectively unstable turbulent open channel flow with stable surface stratification. ANZIAM Journal, 56, C246-C261. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). Stability and Nusselt number scaling for inclined differentially heated cavity flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 97, 787-793. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2015). Bifurcation of natural convection flow in an inclined differentially heated closed square cavity. Computational Thermal Sciences, 7(5-6), 417-425. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2015). Transition to stably stratified states in open channel flow with radiative surface heating. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 766, 528-555. [More Information]
Stewart, N., Homes, D., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). Comparison of Semi-implicit and Explicit Finite Difference Algorithms on Highly Parallel Processing Architectures. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 553(2014), 193-198. [More Information]
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2014). Parallel speed-up of preconditioned fractional step navier-stokes solvers. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 493, 215-220. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2013). A canonical model for stratified flow in estuaries and rivers. ANZIAM Journal, 54, C88-C101. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Luo, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2013). Burning syngas in a high swirl burner: Effects of fuel composition. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(21), 9028-9042. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Comparison of non-reflective boundary conditions for a free-rising turbulent axisymmetric plume. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 72(12), 1307-1320. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Bartos, N., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Experimental and numerical investigation of unsteady behaviour in the near-field of pure thermal planar plumes. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 46, 139-150. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Large Eddy Simulation of complex sidearms subject to solar radiation and surface cooling. Water Research, 47(14), 4918-4927. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Prandtl number dependence and instability mechanism of the near-field flow in a planar thermal plume. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 732, 105-127. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Simulation and analysis of puffing instability in the near field of pure thermal planar plumes. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 69, 1-13. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Three-dimensional simulation of natural convection in a reservoir sidearm. Physics of Fluids, 25(2), 025105-1-025105-26. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jiang, X., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2012). Combustion characteristics of H2/N2 and H2/CO syngas nonpremixed flames. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37(21), 16186-16200. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Odedra, A. (2012). Computational fluid dynamics modeling toward clean combustion. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(1), 49-65. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2012). Effects of swirl on intermittency characteristics in non-premixed flames. Combustion Science and Technology, 184(5), 629-659. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Norris, S., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Lateral circulation in a stratified open channel on a 120 degree bend. Water Resources Research, 48(12), 1-11. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Mixing, intermittency and Large Eddy Simulation of a turbulent round jet. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 12(5), 342-352. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Garry, K., Holt, J., Poll, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Modelling of coaxial jet efflux mixing using LES. International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 39(1), 20-39. [More Information]
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Preconditioning in parallel for fractional step Navier-Stokes solvers. ANZIAM Journal, 53(EMAC2011), C19-C33. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Williamson, N. (2012). Shear driven purging of negatively buoyant fluid from trapezoidal depressions and cavities. Physics of Fluids, 24(2), 1-25. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Stability and accuracy of various difference schemes for the lattice Boltzmann method. ANZIAM Journal, 53, C494-C510. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Swirl effects on external intermittency in turbulent jets. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 33(1), 193-206. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Transition to oscillatory flow in a differentially heated cavity with a conducting partition. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 693(25 February 2012), 93-114. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Transitional ventilated filling box flow with a line heat source. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55(13-14), 3650-3665. [More Information]
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2011). Comparison of approximate inverse preconditioners for the fractional step Navier--Stokes equations. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C581-C595. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). Natural convection in a sidewall heated cube using an immersed boundary method. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C535-C548. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Maruyama, S., Komiya, A. (2011). Numerical study of a transitional natural ventilation flow driven by a line source plume with varied Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. Computational Thermal Sciences, 3(6), 511-519. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). The lattice Boltzmann method for turbulent channel flows using graphics processing units. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C914-C931. [More Information]
Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Street, R. (2010). A divergence free fractional-step method for the Navier-Stokes equations on non-staggered grids. ANZIAM Journal, 51, C654-C667.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). A study of mixing and intermittency in a coaxial turbulent jet. Fluid Dynamics Research, 42(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Influence of Bluff-Body and Swirl on Mixing and Intermittency or Jets. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 4(3), 374-386.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Jenkins, K. (2010). Investigation of the influence of swirl on a confined coannular swirl jet. Computers and Fluids, 39(5), 756-767. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Large Eddy Simulation of a turbulent swirling coaxial jet. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 10(2), 88-99. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). LES of intermittency in a turbulent round jet with different inlet conditions. Computers and Fluids, 39(9), 1685-1695. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2010). Modelling of instabilities in turbulent swirling flames. Fuel, 89, 10-18. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2009). Identification and analysis of instability in non-premixed swirling flames using LES. Combustion Theory and Modelling, 13(6), 40-971. [More Information]
Gillam, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Influence of a channel bend on the purging of saline fluid from a cavity by an overflow of fresh water. ANZIAM Journal, 50, C990-C1003.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2009). Open boundary conditions in numerical simulations of unsteady incompressible flow. ANZIAM Journal, 50, C760-C773.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Study of jet precession, recirculation and vortex breakdown in turbulent swirling jets using LES. Computers and Fluids, 38(6), 1232-1242. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2008). On the stability and performance of the projection-3 method for the time integration of the Navier-Stokes equations. ANZIAM Journal, 49, C559-C575.
Ali, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2008). Toward a grid independent large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 17(1:9), 60-74.
Malalasekera, W., Dinesh, K., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2007). Large eddy simulation of isothermal turbulent swirling jets. Combustion Science and Technology, 179(8), 1481-1525. [More Information]
Ali, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2007). Numerical issues in simulations of premixed turbulent combustion using an LES turbulence model. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 16(1), 126-135.
Senocak, I., Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2007). Study of near-surface models for large-eddy simulations of a neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 124(3), 405-424. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2006). Large-eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow using a finite-volume, fractional step method. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 15(3), 325-337.
Bunyawanichakul, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Sargison, J., Walker, G. (2006). Numerical and experimental studies of the flow field in a cyclone dryer. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 128(6), 1240-1250. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Ackerman, A., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2006). On the application of the dynamic Smagorinsky model in large-eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63(2), 526-546. [More Information]
Stevens, B., Moeng, C., Ackerman, A., Bretherton, C., Chlond, A., De Roode, S., Edwards, J., Golaz, J., Kirkpatrick, M., et al (2005). Evaluation of large-eddy simulations via observations of nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Monthly Weather Review, 133(6), 1443-1462. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2005). Experimental and large eddy simulation results for the purging of salt water from a cavity by an overflow of fresh water. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 48(2), 341-359. [More Information]
Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Toon, O. (2004). The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing. Nature, 432(7020), 1014-1017. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Kent, J. (2003). A representation of curved boundaries for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations on a staggered three-dimensional Cartesian grid. Journal of Computational Physics, 184(1), 1-36. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2003). Large Eddy Simulation of a Propagating Turbulent Premixed Flame. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 70(1-4), 1-19. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Kent, J., Sazonov, V., Zhang, L., Novozhilov, V., Mann, A., Dixon, T. (2001). Computational fluid dynamics modelling of tube erosion rates in bagasse-fired boilers. Journal of the Energy Institute, 74, 57-65.

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Conferences

Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2018). Experimental investigation into turbulent negatively buoyant jets using combined PIV and LIF measurements. 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018), Adelaide: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Dong,, L., Lin,, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Zhao,, D. (2018). Filling box flow with weak plane fountain: The effect of the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. The 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : IEEE Computer Society.
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2018). Natural convection stratification and scaling in a cavity with unsteady sidewall heating. 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ICOME 2017, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics Inc. [More Information]
Khatamifar, M., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). Transient Laminar Conjugate Natural Convection in a Cavity with a Finite Thickness and Conductivity Partition. 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016), Perth: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2016). Transient Natural Convection Flow in a Cavity Subject to Time-Varying Sidewall Heating and Cooling. 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016), Perth: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., He, Y., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2015). Hydrodynamic stability analysis of sheared convective boundary layer flows in stratified environments. Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., McCormack, J., He, Y., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2015). Turbulent Mixing in Cross Sheared Stratifield Flow. Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
Khatamifar, M., D'Urso, R., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). A Numerical and Experimental Study on the Unsteady Conjugate Natural Convection Boundary Layers in a Water Filled Rectangular Cavity with a Conducting Partition Wall at Varied Locations. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., McCormack, J., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., He, Y. (2014). Coherent Structures in Cross Sheared Flows in Weakly Stratified Environments. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Starner, S. (2014). Entrainment Across a Sharp Density Interface in a Sheared Cavity Flow. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., He, Y. (2014). Hydrodynamic stability analysis on inviscid cross sheared stratified flows. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Lin, W. (2014). Natural Convection in an Inclined Differentially Heated Square Cavity. 15th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC 2014), Kyoto: Begell House Inc. [More Information]
Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Lin, W., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). Nusselt Number Scaling in an Inclined Differentially Heated Square Cavity. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Starner, S., Armfield, S. (2014). Sheared Turbulent Convection of a Buoyant Fluid from a Horizontal Porous Plate. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Kirkpatrick, M., Starner, S., Williamson, N., Armfield, S. (2012). A New Experimental Rig for Investigations of Sheared Convective Boundary Layers. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Hattori, T., Bartos, N., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Stability of Thermal Plumes with Finite Width Source. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Scaling of the thermally coupled natural convection boundary layers on a conducting vertical plate. 7th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer (THMT'12), Palermo, Italy: Begell House Inc. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Norris, S., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Secondary flow in stratified open channel flow on a bend. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Stability and transition in the near-field of pure thermal planar plumes. Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD7), Hawaii: ICCFD.
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2011). The stability of conjugate natural convection boundary layers on a conducting vertical partition in an open or closed rectangular cavity. 9th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference - 9AHMTC, Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES).
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2011). Transitional High Prandtl Number Plumes with an Iso-thermal Source. 9th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference - 9AHMTC, Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES).
Bartos, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2010). Fluid Mechanics of Displacement Air-Conditioning. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2010). Natural convection flows in reservoir sidearms using Large Eddy Simulation and an Immersed Boundary Method. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Numerical Simulation of a Natural Ventilation Flow with a Line Heat Source Using Various Advection Schemes. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Two-dimensional numerical simulation of a steady-state buoyancy-driven flow in a semi-confined enclosure with a line heat source. 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM-APCOM 2010, Sydney: IOP Publishing. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). LES of turbulent swirling jets: Study of jet precession, recirculation and vortex breakdown. ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea and Air - Gas Turbine Technical Congress and Exposition (GT2009), United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2009). Representation of non-rectangular boundaries in numerical simulations of natural convection flows in reservoir sidearms. The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns: Modelling/Simulation Society of Aus and NZ & International Assoc for Math and Comp in Simulation.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Simulations of Unsteady Oscillations in Turbulent Non-Premixed Swirling Flames. ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea and Air - Gas Turbine Technical Congress and Exposition (GT2009), United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Study the Effect of Swirl on a Confined Coannular Jet using LES. 6th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer THMT 2009, United Kingdom: Begell House Inc.
Gillam, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2007). Influence of Start-Up Time on the Purging of Salt Water by an Overflow of Fresh Water. 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2007, Australia: University of Queensland.
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Behnia, M. (2007). Sub-Filter Scale Models for Scalar Transport in Large Eddy Simulations. 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2007, Australia: University of Queensland.
Bunyawanichakul, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Sargison, J., Walker, G. (2006). A Three-Dimensional Simulation Of A Cyclone Dryer. 5th International Conference on CFD in the Process Industries (CSIRO 2006), Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO.
Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2006). Large eddy simulation of turbulent non-premixed swirling flames. 5th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Tranfer, 50 Cross Highway, Redding CT 06896: Begell House Inc.
Ranga-Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2005). Large eddy simulation of isothermal swirling flow. 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC), Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide.
Ranga-Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2005). Large eddy simulation of turbulent unconfined swirling flows. 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics. HEFAT.
Morgan, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2003). A comparison of 2-D and 3-D solutions for incompressible bifurcating jets in stratified environments. 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics ICCFD 2002, Germany: Springer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2002). Large eddy simulation of the purging of density-stabilised basins. 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics ICCFD 2002, Germany: Springer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2002). Numerical issues in large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent propagating flames. The Second Mediterranean Combustion Symposium.
Novozhilov, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Kent, J., Sazonov, V., Zhang, L., Mann, A., Pennisi, S., Dixon, T. (2001). Modeling of boiler tube erosion. 2001 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, : UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2001). On the application of compressible LES in unsteady premixed combustion. 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion. Ads & Adea.

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Report

Kirkpatrick, M. (2004). A comparison of heat pumps and gas heaters for domestic use in Tasmania.
Kent, J., Kirkpatrick, M. (2001). Computational fluid dynamics investigation of fire and smoke dispersal in Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

Other

Kirkpatrick, M. (2006), A four-dimensional variational model for assimilation of atmospheric Doppler lidar data into a large eddy simulation code.
Senocak, I., Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2004), A study of near-surface models in large-eddy simulation of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Mansour, N., Ackerman, A., Stevens, D. (2003), Dynamic turbulence modelling in large-eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer.
Kirkpatrick, M. (2002), Thesis - A Large Eddy Simulation Code for Industrial and Environmental Flows.
Kirkpatrick, M. (2002), Turbulence modelling in large eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer.

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2023

Dong, L., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Khatamifar, M. (2023). Direct numerical simulation of “fountain filling box” flow with a confined weak laminar plane fountain. Heat Transfer, 52(1), 193-215. [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2023). Effect of Thermal Stratification in Meandering Turbulent Open-Channel Flow with Varying Sinuosity. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (New York), 149(9). [More Information]

2022

Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2022). Amplification of turbulence by sharp meanders on thermally stratified open channel flow. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 94, 1-9. [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2022). Characterising entrainment in fountains and negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 939, A29. [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2022). Effects of meander curvature in thermally stratified turbulent open-channel flow. Physics of Fluids, 34(9). [More Information]
Nguyen, D., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W. (2022). Turbulence structure in a very sharp thermally stratified open-channel meander. Physics of Fluids, 34(3). [More Information]

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2021

Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Talluru, K. (2021). Entrainment and structure of negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A21. [More Information]
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2021). Natural convection in a cavity with time-dependent flux boundary. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 92, 108887. [More Information]

2020

Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Zecevic, V. (2020). Destratification of thermally stratified turbulent open-channel flow by surface cooling. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 829, A29-36. [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2020). Experimental investigation into turbulent negatively buoyant jets using combined PIV and PLIF measurements. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 82, 1-8. [More Information]
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2020). Natural convection in a cavity with time-varying thermal forcing on a sidewall. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 150, 1-11. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2020). Rectangular lattice Boltzmann method using multiple relaxation time collision operator in two and three dimensions. Computers and Fluids, 202, 104492. [More Information]
Talluru, K., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Milton-McGurk, L. (2020). Turbulence structure of neutral and negatively buoyant jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 909, 1-26. [More Information]

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2019

Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Zecevic, V. (2019). Evolution of thermally stratified turbulent open channel flow after removal of the heat source. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876, 356-412. [More Information]

2018

Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2018). Entrainment across a sheared density interface in a cavity flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 835, 999-1021. [More Information]
Milton-McGurk, L., Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2018). Experimental investigation into turbulent negatively buoyant jets using combined PIV and LIF measurements. 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2018), Adelaide: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Dong,, L., Lin,, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Zhao,, D. (2018). Filling box flow with weak plane fountain: The effect of the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. The 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : IEEE Computer Society.
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2018). Natural convection stratification and scaling in a cavity with unsteady sidewall heating. 3rd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, ICOME 2017, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics Inc. [More Information]
Chen, Y., Verlinde, J., Clothiaux, E., Ackerman, A., Fridlind, A., Chameki, M., Kollias, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Chen, B., Yu, G., et al (2018). On the Forward Modeling of Radar Doppler Spectrum Width From LES: Implications for Model Evaluation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(14), 7444-7461. [More Information]

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2017

Khatamifar, M., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Holmes, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2017). Conjugate natural convection heat transfer in a partitioned differentially-heated square cavity. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 81, 92-103. [More Information]

2016

Khatamifar, M., Wood, E., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). A Multigrid Accelerated Code for Simulating Unsteady Conjugate Natural Convection Boundary Layers. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 846, 30-35. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Norris, S. (2016). Convectively unstable turbulent open channel flow with stable surface stratification. ANZIAM Journal, 56, C246-C261. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Lin, W., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). Stability and Nusselt number scaling for inclined differentially heated cavity flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 97, 787-793. [More Information]
Khatamifar, M., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2016). Transient Laminar Conjugate Natural Convection in a Cavity with a Finite Thickness and Conductivity Partition. 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016), Perth: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Zhou, L., Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2016). Transient Natural Convection Flow in a Cavity Subject to Time-Varying Sidewall Heating and Cooling. 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference (AFMC 2016), Perth: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.

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2015

Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Lin, W. (2015). Bifurcation of natural convection flow in an inclined differentially heated closed square cavity. Computational Thermal Sciences, 7(5-6), 417-425. [More Information]
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., He, Y., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2015). Hydrodynamic stability analysis of sheared convective boundary layer flows in stratified environments. Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2015). Transition to stably stratified states in open channel flow with radiative surface heating. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 766, 528-555. [More Information]
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., McCormack, J., He, Y., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2015). Turbulent Mixing in Cross Sheared Stratifield Flow. Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne: University of Melbourne.

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2014

Khatamifar, M., D'Urso, R., Lin, W., Holmes, D., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). A Numerical and Experimental Study on the Unsteady Conjugate Natural Convection Boundary Layers in a Water Filled Rectangular Cavity with a Conducting Partition Wall at Varied Locations. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., McCormack, J., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., He, Y. (2014). Coherent Structures in Cross Sheared Flows in Weakly Stratified Environments. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Stewart, N., Homes, D., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). Comparison of Semi-implicit and Explicit Finite Difference Algorithms on Highly Parallel Processing Architectures. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 553(2014), 193-198. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Starner, S. (2014). Entrainment Across a Sharp Density Interface in a Sheared Cavity Flow. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Xiao, Y., Lin, W., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., He, Y. (2014). Hydrodynamic stability analysis on inviscid cross sheared stratified flows. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Lin, W. (2014). Natural Convection in an Inclined Differentially Heated Square Cavity. 15th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC 2014), Kyoto: Begell House Inc. [More Information]
Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Lin, W., Kirkpatrick, M. (2014). Nusselt Number Scaling in an Inclined Differentially Heated Square Cavity. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2014). Parallel speed-up of preconditioned fractional step navier-stokes solvers. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 493, 215-220. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Williamson, N., Starner, S., Armfield, S. (2014). Sheared Turbulent Convection of a Buoyant Fluid from a Horizontal Porous Plate. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, : SPIE.

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2013

Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2013). A canonical model for stratified flow in estuaries and rivers. ANZIAM Journal, 54, C88-C101. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Luo, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2013). Burning syngas in a high swirl burner: Effects of fuel composition. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(21), 9028-9042. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Comparison of non-reflective boundary conditions for a free-rising turbulent axisymmetric plume. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 72(12), 1307-1320. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Bartos, N., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Experimental and numerical investigation of unsteady behaviour in the near-field of pure thermal planar plumes. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 46, 139-150. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Large Eddy Simulation of complex sidearms subject to solar radiation and surface cooling. Water Research, 47(14), 4918-4927. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Prandtl number dependence and instability mechanism of the near-field flow in a planar thermal plume. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 732, 105-127. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Simulation and analysis of puffing instability in the near field of pure thermal planar plumes. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 69, 1-13. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Three-dimensional simulation of natural convection in a reservoir sidearm. Physics of Fluids, 25(2), 025105-1-025105-26. [More Information]

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2012

Kirkpatrick, M., Starner, S., Williamson, N., Armfield, S. (2012). A New Experimental Rig for Investigations of Sheared Convective Boundary Layers. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jiang, X., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2012). Combustion characteristics of H2/N2 and H2/CO syngas nonpremixed flames. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37(21), 16186-16200. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Odedra, A. (2012). Computational fluid dynamics modeling toward clean combustion. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(1), 49-65. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2012). Effects of swirl on intermittency characteristics in non-premixed flames. Combustion Science and Technology, 184(5), 629-659. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Norris, S., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Lateral circulation in a stratified open channel on a 120 degree bend. Water Resources Research, 48(12), 1-11. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Mixing, intermittency and Large Eddy Simulation of a turbulent round jet. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 12(5), 342-352. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Garry, K., Holt, J., Poll, D., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Modelling of coaxial jet efflux mixing using LES. International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 39(1), 20-39. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Bartos, N., Norris, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Stability of Thermal Plumes with Finite Width Source. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Preconditioning in parallel for fractional step Navier-Stokes solvers. ANZIAM Journal, 53(EMAC2011), C19-C33. [More Information]
Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Scaling of the thermally coupled natural convection boundary layers on a conducting vertical plate. 7th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer (THMT'12), Palermo, Italy: Begell House Inc. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Norris, S., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Secondary flow in stratified open channel flow on a bend. 18th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2012, Launceston, Tasmania: Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Williamson, N. (2012). Shear driven purging of negatively buoyant fluid from trapezoidal depressions and cavities. Physics of Fluids, 24(2), 1-25. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Stability and accuracy of various difference schemes for the lattice Boltzmann method. ANZIAM Journal, 53, C494-C510. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Stability and transition in the near-field of pure thermal planar plumes. Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD7), Hawaii: ICCFD.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Swirl effects on external intermittency in turbulent jets. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 33(1), 193-206. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Transition to oscillatory flow in a differentially heated cavity with a conducting partition. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 693(25 February 2012), 93-114. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2012). Transitional ventilated filling box flow with a line heat source. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55(13-14), 3650-3665. [More Information]

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2011

Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2011). Comparison of approximate inverse preconditioners for the fractional step Navier--Stokes equations. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C581-C595. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). Natural convection in a sidewall heated cube using an immersed boundary method. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C535-C548. [More Information]
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Maruyama, S., Komiya, A. (2011). Numerical study of a transitional natural ventilation flow driven by a line source plume with varied Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. Computational Thermal Sciences, 3(6), 511-519. [More Information]
Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). The lattice Boltzmann method for turbulent channel flows using graphics processing units. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C914-C931. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2011). The stability of conjugate natural convection boundary layers on a conducting vertical partition in an open or closed rectangular cavity. 9th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference - 9AHMTC, Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES).
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2011). Transitional High Prandtl Number Plumes with an Iso-thermal Source. 9th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference - 9AHMTC, Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Fluid and Thermal Engineering Society (AFTES).

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2010

Armfield, S., Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Street, R. (2010). A divergence free fractional-step method for the Navier-Stokes equations on non-staggered grids. ANZIAM Journal, 51, C654-C667.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). A study of mixing and intermittency in a coaxial turbulent jet. Fluid Dynamics Research, 42(2), 1-20. [More Information]
Bartos, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2010). Fluid Mechanics of Displacement Air-Conditioning. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Savill, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Influence of Bluff-Body and Swirl on Mixing and Intermittency or Jets. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 4(3), 374-386.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Jenkins, K. (2010). Investigation of the influence of swirl on a confined coannular swirl jet. Computers and Fluids, 39(5), 756-767. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Large Eddy Simulation of a turbulent swirling coaxial jet. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 10(2), 88-99. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Savill, A., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). LES of intermittency in a turbulent round jet with different inlet conditions. Computers and Fluids, 39(9), 1685-1695. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2010). Modelling of instabilities in turbulent swirling flames. Fuel, 89, 10-18. [More Information]
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2010). Natural convection flows in reservoir sidearms using Large Eddy Simulation and an Immersed Boundary Method. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Numerical Simulation of a Natural Ventilation Flow with a Line Heat Source Using Various Advection Schemes. 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
Hattori, T., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2010). Two-dimensional numerical simulation of a steady-state buoyancy-driven flow in a semi-confined enclosure with a line heat source. 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM-APCOM 2010, Sydney: IOP Publishing. [More Information]

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2009

Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2009). Identification and analysis of instability in non-premixed swirling flames using LES. Combustion Theory and Modelling, 13(6), 40-971. [More Information]
Gillam, N., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Influence of a channel bend on the purging of saline fluid from a cavity by an overflow of fresh water. ANZIAM Journal, 50, C990-C1003.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). LES of turbulent swirling jets: Study of jet precession, recirculation and vortex breakdown. ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea and Air - Gas Turbine Technical Congress and Exposition (GT2009), United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2009). Open boundary conditions in numerical simulations of unsteady incompressible flow. ANZIAM Journal, 50, C760-C773.
Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2009). Representation of non-rectangular boundaries in numerical simulations of natural convection flows in reservoir sidearms. The 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Cairns: Modelling/Simulation Society of Aus and NZ & International Assoc for Math and Comp in Simulation.
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Simulations of Unsteady Oscillations in Turbulent Non-Premixed Swirling Flames. ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea and Air - Gas Turbine Technical Congress and Exposition (GT2009), United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Study of jet precession, recirculation and vortex breakdown in turbulent swirling jets using LES. Computers and Fluids, 38(6), 1232-1242. [More Information]
Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M. (2009). Study the Effect of Swirl on a Confined Coannular Jet using LES. 6th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer THMT 2009, United Kingdom: Begell House Inc.

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2008

Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2008). On the stability and performance of the projection-3 method for the time integration of the Navier-Stokes equations. ANZIAM Journal, 49, C559-C575.
Ali, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2008). Toward a grid independent large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 17(1:9), 60-74.

2007

Gillam, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2007). Influence of Start-Up Time on the Purging of Salt Water by an Overflow of Fresh Water. 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2007, Australia: University of Queensland.
Malalasekera, W., Dinesh, K., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2007). Large eddy simulation of isothermal turbulent swirling jets. Combustion Science and Technology, 179(8), 1481-1525. [More Information]
Ali, A., Kirkpatrick, M. (2007). Numerical issues in simulations of premixed turbulent combustion using an LES turbulence model. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 16(1), 126-135.
Senocak, I., Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2007). Study of near-surface models for large-eddy simulations of a neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 124(3), 405-424. [More Information]
Williamson, N., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Behnia, M. (2007). Sub-Filter Scale Models for Scalar Transport in Large Eddy Simulations. 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference AFMC 2007, Australia: University of Queensland.

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2006

Kirkpatrick, M. (2006), A four-dimensional variational model for assimilation of atmospheric Doppler lidar data into a large eddy simulation code.
Bunyawanichakul, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Sargison, J., Walker, G. (2006). A Three-Dimensional Simulation Of A Cyclone Dryer. 5th International Conference on CFD in the Process Industries (CSIRO 2006), Melbourne, Australia: CSIRO.
Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2006). Large eddy simulation of turbulent non-premixed swirling flames. 5th International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Tranfer, 50 Cross Highway, Redding CT 06896: Begell House Inc.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2006). Large-eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow using a finite-volume, fractional step method. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 15(3), 325-337.
Bunyawanichakul, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Sargison, J., Walker, G. (2006). Numerical and experimental studies of the flow field in a cyclone dryer. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 128(6), 1240-1250. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Ackerman, A., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2006). On the application of the dynamic Smagorinsky model in large-eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63(2), 526-546. [More Information]

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2005

Stevens, B., Moeng, C., Ackerman, A., Bretherton, C., Chlond, A., De Roode, S., Edwards, J., Golaz, J., Kirkpatrick, M., et al (2005). Evaluation of large-eddy simulations via observations of nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Monthly Weather Review, 133(6), 1443-1462. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2005). Experimental and large eddy simulation results for the purging of salt water from a cavity by an overflow of fresh water. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 48(2), 341-359. [More Information]
Ranga-Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2005). Large eddy simulation of isothermal swirling flow. 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC), Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide.
Ranga-Dinesh, K., Malalasekera, W., Ibrahim, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2005). Large eddy simulation of turbulent unconfined swirling flows. 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics. HEFAT.

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2004

Kirkpatrick, M. (2004). A comparison of heat pumps and gas heaters for domestic use in Tasmania.
Senocak, I., Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Mansour, N. (2004), A study of near-surface models in large-eddy simulation of the neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer.
Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Toon, O. (2004). The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing. Nature, 432(7020), 1014-1017. [More Information]

2003

Morgan, P., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2003). A comparison of 2-D and 3-D solutions for incompressible bifurcating jets in stratified environments. 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics ICCFD 2002, Germany: Springer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Kent, J. (2003). A representation of curved boundaries for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations on a staggered three-dimensional Cartesian grid. Journal of Computational Physics, 184(1), 1-36. [More Information]
Kirkpatrick, M., Mansour, N., Ackerman, A., Stevens, D. (2003), Dynamic turbulence modelling in large-eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2003). Large Eddy Simulation of a Propagating Turbulent Premixed Flame. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 70(1-4), 1-19. [More Information]

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2002

Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2002). Large eddy simulation of the purging of density-stabilised basins. 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics ICCFD 2002, Germany: Springer.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2002). Numerical issues in large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent propagating flames. The Second Mediterranean Combustion Symposium.
Kirkpatrick, M. (2002), Thesis - A Large Eddy Simulation Code for Industrial and Environmental Flows.
Kirkpatrick, M. (2002), Turbulence modelling in large eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer.

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2001

Kent, J., Kirkpatrick, M. (2001). Computational fluid dynamics investigation of fire and smoke dispersal in Sydney Harbour Tunnel.
Kirkpatrick, M., Kent, J., Sazonov, V., Zhang, L., Novozhilov, V., Mann, A., Dixon, T. (2001). Computational fluid dynamics modelling of tube erosion rates in bagasse-fired boilers. Journal of the Energy Institute, 74, 57-65.
Novozhilov, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Kent, J., Sazonov, V., Zhang, L., Mann, A., Pennisi, S., Dixon, T. (2001). Modeling of boiler tube erosion. 2001 Conference of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, : UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy.
Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S., Masri, A., Ibrahim, S. (2001). On the application of compressible LES in unsteady premixed combustion. 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion. Ads & Adea.

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Selected Grants

2022

Dynamics of Suppressed Mixing Regimes in Australian Rivers, Armfield S, Mitrovic S, Kirkpatrick M, Williamson N, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2016

Entrainment and Mixing in Turbulent Negatively Buoyant Jets and Fountains, Armfield S, Williamson N, Lin W, Kirkpatrick M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2015

Thermal stratification, overturning and mixing in riverine environments, Kirkpatrick M, Williamson N, Lin W, Armfield S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2013

Conjugate natural convection boundary layers, Armfield S, Kirkpatrick M, Lei C, Lin W, Patterson J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2011

The Dynamics of Turbulent Entrainment in Sheared Convective Boundary Layers, Kirkpatrick M, Lin W, Armfield S, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2009

Transport by Natural Convection in Reservoir Sidearms, Patterson J, Armfield S, Lei C, Lin W, Kirkpatrick M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2008

Investigation and optimisation of displacement ventilation and cooling systems, Armfield S, Kirkpatrick M, Lin W, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2007

Transport by Natural Convection in Reservoir Sidearms, Armfield S, Kirkpatrick M, Patterson J, Patterson J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2006

Optimization of the turbine for a micro-scale jet engine, Kirkpatrick M, University of Sydney/Newly Appointed Staff

2004

Development of a real-time 4DVAR system for atmospheric flow field prediction, Kirkpatrick M, Dept of Environment WA/Consulting
Freshing, mixing and purging of riverine saline ponds by freshwater overflow, Armfield S, Kirkpatrick M, Lemckert C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2003

A comparison of heat pumps and gas heaters for domestic use in Tasmania, Kirkpatrick M, Powerco Tasmania/Contract research at University of Tasmania

2001

Turbulence modelling in large eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer, Kirkpatrick M, Stanford University (USA)/Center for Turbulence Research Postdoctoral Fellowship

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Haico Schepers, Architectural Engineering, Arup, Sydney

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