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Associate Professor Michael Kirkpatrick

Ph.D Sydney (2002), BE (Mech) Sydney (1996)
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering

J07 - Mechanical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9351 2675
Fax +61 2 9351 7060

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Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society

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Biographical details

Michael Kirkpatrick completed an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sydney in 1996. He then took up a position with the international building engineering consultancy Ove Arup & Partners. He worked in their building services groups for two years in Sydney and London. 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.
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Teaching and supervision

AMME4241 - Renewable Energy
AMME5510 - Vibration and Acoustics
MECH3260 - Thermal Engineering
MECH5262 - Foundations of Thermal Engineering
MECH5275 - Advanced Renewable Energy
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Associations

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Themes

Water and the environment

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Selected grants

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

2008

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

2007

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

2005

  • 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.

2004

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

2002

  • 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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Selected publications

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Journals

  • 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.
  • Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Three-dimensional simulation of natural convection in a reservoir sidearm. Physics of Fluids, 25(025105(2013)), 1-26.
  • 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.
  • Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Odedra, A. (2012). Computational fluid dynamics modeling toward clean combustion. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(1), 49-65.
  • 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.
  • 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, 1-11.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M., Norris, S. (2012). Preconditioning in parallel for fractional step Navier-Stokes solvers. ANZIAM Journal, 53(EMAC2011), C19-C33.
  • 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.
  • Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Stability and accuracy of various difference schemes for the lattice Boltzmann method. ANZIAM Journal, 53(EMAC2011), C494-C510.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Djanali, V., Armfield, S., Kirkpatrick, M. (2011). Comparison of approximate inverse preconditioners for the fractional step Navier--Stokes equations. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C581-C595.
  • Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). Natural convection in a sidewall heated cube using an immersed boundary method. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C535-C548.
  • 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.
  • Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). The lattice Boltzmann method for turbulent channel flows using graphics processing units. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C914-C931.
  • 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, Article number 025507), 025507 - 1-025507 - 20.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2010). Modelling of instabilities in turbulent swirling flames. Fuel, 89, 10-18.
  • 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.
  • 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, 5321-C1003.
  • Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2009). Open boundary conditions in numerical simulations of unsteady incompressible flow. ANZIAM Journal, 50, 523-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.
  • Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2008). On the stability and performance of the projection-3 method for the time integration of the Navier-Stokes equations. The A N Z I A M 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Stevens, B., Moeng, C., Ackerman, A., Bretherton, C., Chlond, A., De Roode, S., Edwards, J., Golaz, J., Kirkpatrick, M., et, A. (2005). Evaluation of large-eddy simulations via observations of nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Monthly Weather Review, 133(6), 1443-1462.
  • 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.
  • Ackerman, A., Kirkpatrick, M., Stevens, D., Toon, O. (2004). The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing. Nature: international weekly journal of science, 432(7020), 1014-1017.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Energy Institute. Journal, 74, 57-65.

Conferences

  • 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.
  • 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, Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing.
  • 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, Australia: 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).
  • 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.

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.

2013

  • 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.
  • Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2013). Three-dimensional simulation of natural convection in a reservoir sidearm. Physics of Fluids, 25(025105(2013)), 1-26.

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.
  • Ranga Dinesh, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Odedra, A. (2012). Computational fluid dynamics modeling toward clean combustion. Computational Thermal Sciences, 4(1), 49-65.
  • 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.
  • 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, 1-11.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2012). Stability and accuracy of various difference schemes for the lattice Boltzmann method. ANZIAM Journal, 53(EMAC2011), C494-C510.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • Dittko, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). Natural convection in a sidewall heated cube using an immersed boundary method. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C535-C548.
  • 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.
  • Zecevic, V., Kirkpatrick, M., Armfield, S. (2011). The lattice Boltzmann method for turbulent channel flows using graphics processing units. ANZIAM Journal, 52, C914-C931.
  • 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).

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, Article number 025507), 025507 - 1-025507 - 20.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ranga Dinesh, K., Jenkins, K., Kirkpatrick, M., Malalasekera, W. (2010). Modelling of instabilities in turbulent swirling flames. Fuel, 89, 10-18.
  • 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, Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing.

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.
  • 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, 5321-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, 523-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, Australia: 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.

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. The A N Z I A M 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.

2005

  • Stevens, B., Moeng, C., Ackerman, A., Bretherton, C., Chlond, A., De Roode, S., Edwards, J., Golaz, J., Kirkpatrick, M., et, A. (2005). Evaluation of large-eddy simulations via observations of nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Monthly Weather Review, 133(6), 1443-1462.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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: international weekly journal of science, 432(7020), 1014-1017.

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.
  • 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.

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.

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. Energy Institute. Journal, 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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