Prof David Buttsworth
| Name | Prof David Buttsworth |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The effect of boundary layer transition on aerodynamics and stability of hypersonic vehicles | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 |
| Real time detection and prevention of unstart in a ramjet inlet | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2025 |
| Advance Co-Design Methods For High Speed Flight And Access to Space Systems | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Inlet fuel injection for Air Breathing Ramjet engines utilising Detonation Combustion | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
| Rocket angle-of-attack and bending load | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| High altitude drone deployment of a distributed sensor network to optically observe, track and predict hypersonic flight | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Aerodynamic Control Experiments in a Short Duration Hypersonic Wind Tunnel | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Shock Wave Surfing and Space Debris Dispersion Modelling | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| New hypersonic ground-test methods in the Australian context | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Development of an Experimental Rotating Detonation Ramjet Engine | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Modelling Dispersion of Space Debris in Re-entry | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Completed Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental Studies of Scramjet Inlet Restart in a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Facility | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The optimisation of grinding mill relining through mechanisation and simulation | 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 |