Peter Blennerhassett
Senior Lecturer
Office Room 3073 , The Red Centre
Phone 9385 7055
Fax 9385 7123
Email p.blennerhassett@unsw.edu.au
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • London University UK, Doctor of Philosophy
  • University of Western Aust, Bachelor of Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Stability properties of fluid motion
  • Transition to turbulent fluid flow
  • Nonlinear dynamical systems
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
  • Director of First Year Studies in Mathematics & Statistics
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • S.O. MacKerrell, P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, ``Gortler vortices in the Rayleigh layer on an impulsively started cylinder'', Physics of Fluids, 14 (2002), 2948--2956.
  • P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, ``The linear stability of flat Stokes layers'', J. Fluid Mech., 464 (2002), 393--410.
  • A.P. Bassom and P.J. Blennerhassett, ``Impulsively generated convection in a semi-infinite fluid layer above a heated flat plate'', Q. Jl Mech. Appl. Math., 55 (2002), 573--595.
  • P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom,``The linear stability of high-frequency oscillatory flow in a channel'', J. Fluid Mech., 556 (2006), 1--25
  • P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom,``The linear stability of high-frequency flow in a torsionally oscillating cylinder'', J. Fluid Mech., 576 (2007), 491--505
  • P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom,``A note on the linear stability of a two-dimensional Stokes layer'', Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math., 60 (2007), 391--396.
  • P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, ``On the linear stability of Stokes layers'', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 366 (2008), 2685--2697.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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