Dr David Petty
Lecturer
PhD (Aerospace Engineering), The University of Queensland, 2015
BE (Mechanical & Space) with Hons / BSc (Mathematics), The University of Queensland, 2009
UNSW Canberra
School of Eng & Tech
Dr David Petty joined UNSW Canberra as a lecturer in 2022. Research into high-fidelity variable-density turbulence modelling was undertaken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research scientists in the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion. Another active area of research is state-to-state modelling of vibrational nonequilibrium gasdynamics in supersonic expanding flows.
Research Experience
- Hypersonics
- Turbulence Modelling and Simulation
- Noneq...
Phone
+61-2-5114 5393
E-mail
d.petty@unsw.edu.au
Location
Building 17 Room 127
School of Engineering and Information Technology,
The University of New South Wales Canberra,
PO Box 7916,
Canberra BC ACT 2610,
AUSTRALIA
- Publications
- Research Activities
- Teaching and Supervision
Current research activities:
- Thermochemical nonequilibrium modelling and simulation of supersonic nozzle flows
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) implementations on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
- Spectral modelling of hypersonic boundary-layer transition with automatic differentiation
My Research Supervision
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo implementation on FPGAs
- Stochastic modelling of learning machines
- Studies of uncontrolled re-entry
My Teaching
Currently teaching:
- thermodynamics (as part of ZEIT2500 Thermofluids)
- fluid mechanics (as part of ZEIT2503)