Prof David Buttsworth
Name | Prof David Buttsworth |
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Email Address | david.buttsworth@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Professor (Thermofluids Engineering) |
Qualifications | BEng(Hons) Qld, PhD Qld |
Department | School of Engineering |
Affiliations | Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences |
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Biography
Studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Queensland; worked at Oxford University after concluding the PhD; worked at the University of Southern Queensland
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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currently, Professor | School of Engineering, UniSQ | 1997 | 2024 |
Expertise
Hypersonic flow, instrumentation
Teaching
MEC2402 Stress Analysis
Fields of Research
- 400199. Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
- 401799. Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
BEng(Hons)
Qld
1989
PhD
Qld
1994
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Rocket angle-of-attack and bending load | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Inlet fuel injection for Air Breathing Ramjet engines utilising Detonation Combustion | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
High altitude drone deployment of a distributed sensor network to optically observe, track and predict hypersonic flight | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Shock Wave Surfing and Space Debris Dispersion Modelling | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Modelling Dispersion of Space Debris in Re-entry | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Development of an Experimental Airbreathing Rotation Detonation Engine | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Design and Simulation of Hypersonic Control Surfaces | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
New hypersonic ground-test methods in the Australian context | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Experimental Studies of Scramjet Inlet Restart in a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Facility | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Actuation and control of physical hypersonic models in a short duration ground testing facility | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Design of variable geometry radial ejector for HVAC purposes through experiments and simulation | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
New wind tunnel facility for icing experiments on models of turbofan compressor surfaces | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Technique development for investigation of Axisymmetric graphite sample oxidation in hypersonic flow | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Supersonic condensed steam jet measurements using TDLAS | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Characterisation of the USQ hypersonic facility freestream | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
The optimisation of grinding mill relining through mechanisation and simulation | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Experimental and computational investigation of gravity separation in a vertical flash tank separator | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Investigation of radial flow ejector performance through experiments and computational simulations | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Constant Rate of Momentum Change Ejector: Simulation, Experiments and Flow Visualisation | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
The drying of abattoir paunch for waste-to-energy conversion | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Simulation and measurement of condensation and mixing effects in steam ejectors | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2016 |
External hot surface axisymmetric models for supersonic combustion | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2016 |