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Name: Dr Scott McCue
Position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) PhD
Organisational Area: School of Mathematical Sciences
Teaching Discipline: Applied Mathematics
Research Program: Applicable Mathematics and Advanced Computation
Phone: +61 7 3138 4295
Fax: +61 7 3138 2310
Email: scott.mccue@qut.edu.au
Postal Address: School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001

Teaching Areas

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Engineering Mathematics

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Areas of Expertise

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Stefan problems
  • Free-surface flows
  • Asymptotic analysis
  • Granular materials

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Professional Associations

  • Australian Mathematical Society
  • Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Current Grants

  • ARC Discovery Grant: A Mathematical Model of the Roles of Contraction and Oxygen in Human Wound Healing

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Selected Research Projects

  • Effect of surface tension on melting small particles
  • Bubble contraction in Hele-Shaw cells
  • Waveless free surface flows
  • Modelling granular flows with continuum mechanics

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Selected Publications

  • S. W. McCue, I. K. Johnpillai & J. M. Hill (2005) New exact solutions for highly frictional granular materials, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 70, 92-118.
  • S. W. McCue, J. R. King & D. S. Riley (2003) Extinction behaviour for two-dimensional solidification problems, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 459, 977-999.
  • S. W. McCue, J. R. King & D. S. Riley (2003) Extinction behaviour of contracting bubbles in porous media, Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 56, 455-482.
  • S. W. McCue & L. K. Forbes (2002) Free surface flows emerging from beneath a semi-infinite plate in a fluid with constant vorticity, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 461, 387-407.
  • S. W. McCue & D. M. Stump (2000) Linear stern waves in finite depth channels, Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 53, 629-643.

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Current Postgraduate Students

Name Project
Mike Hsieh (PhD) Modelling drug release from multilayered delivery systems
Kelly Murphy (PhD) Modelling the role of oxygen in wound contraction
Dandan Sun (PhD) Ceramic-polymer composite scaffolds for bone-cartilage tissue engineering
Chris Lustri (Hons) Asymptotics beyond all orders: applications to free surface flows
Michael Dallaston (Hons) Analysis of gravity-driven water waves using the homotopy analysis method
Bisheng Wu (PhD, University of Wollongong) Mathematical modelling of nanoparticle melting or freezing
Osama Ogilat (PhD, Griffith University) Free boundary problems in fluid mechanics

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