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| Name: |
Prof. Ian Turner |
| Position: |
Professor |
| Qualifications: |
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, UQ; M.App.Sc. Mathematics, QUT; B.App.Sc. Mathematics, QUT.
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| Organisational Area: |
School of Mathematical Sciences |
| Teaching Discipline: |
Computational Mathematics |
| Research Program: |
Applicable Mathematics and Advanced Computation |
| Phone: |
+61 7 3138 2259 |
| Fax: |
+61 7 3138 2310 |
| Email: |
i.turner@qut.edu.au |
| Postal Address: |
School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001 |
Teaching Areas
- Computational Mathematics
- Linear Algebra
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Areas of Expertise
- Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Computational Modelling in Porous Media
- Finite Volume Methods
- Krylov subspace methods
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Professional Associations
- Member of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Chair of the national executive of the Computational Mathematics Group which oversees the enhancement of computational mathematics within Australia
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Current Grants
- ARC LIEF Grant - LE0668502 Queensland Computational Grid Enhancement Project Investigators: Turner; Stonier; Pettitt; Timms; Verma; Anh; Mahendran; McElwain; Dhanasekar; Wolff; Dawson; Cole; Young.
- ARC Linkage Grant - LP0348653 Diffusion and transport of saltwater in coastal aquifers Investigators: Anh, Turner and Bajracharya, Durick
- ARC Linkage Grant - LP0775269 Multi-scale Modelling and Thermal Design Optimisation of Large-Scale Biomass Stockpiles for Use in Renewable Energy Products. Investigators: Farrell; Hobson; Turner; Fulford; Edwards(PI).
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Selected Research Projects
- Modelling the drying of wood
- Modelling saltwater intrusion in Queensland Coastal Aquifers
- Development of iterative methods for solving large, nonlinear systems
- Numerical solution of fractional partial differential equations
- Multiscale modelling in porous media
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Selected Publications
- Turner, I.W. and Jolly, P.G., (1991): Combined Microwave and Convective Drying of a Wet Porous Material, J. Drying Technology, 9, 5, pp. 1209-1269. Best paper award for 1991.
- Zhao, H., and Turner, I.W., (1996): An analysis of the finite-difference time-domain method for modeling the microwave heating of dielectric materials within a three dimensional cavity system, Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, Vol.31 No.4, 199-214. Best paper award in the journal for 1996
- Jayantha, P. A. and Turner, I. W., (2003): A Second Order Finite Volume Technique for Simulating Transport in Anisotropic Media, The International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 13(1), pp.31-56. Highly Commended Award of Excellence from Editor.
- Truscott S. and Turner I.W (2005), A Heterogeneous Wood Drying Computational Model, J. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 29, pp 381-410. This article was recently number 1 on the "The ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles" for this journal.
- M. Ilic and I.W. Turner (2005): Krylov Subspaces and the Analytic Grade, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 12, 55-76.
[Additional Publications]
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Current Postgraduate Students
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Project |
| Ben Cumming (PhD) |
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| Moa'ath Oqielat (PhD) |
Surface fitting techniques for biological systems |
| Danial Simpson (PhD) |
Krylov subspace methods for sampling from large Gaussian Markov random fields with application to complex statistical phenomena |
| Qianqian Yang (PhD) |
Numerical methods and applications for the anomalous diffusion equation with the Riesz fractional derivative (ADE-RFD) |
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