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Overview

Brian Straughan is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with a focus on several subfields including computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, computational theory and mathematics, mechanics of materials, and fluid flow and transfer processes.

The scholar's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Nanofluid flow and heat transfer
  • Fluid dynamics and turbulent flows
  • Heat and mass transfer in porous media
  • Advanced mathematical modeling in engineering
  • Rheology and fluid dynamics studies
  • Thermoelastic and magnetoelastic phenomena
  • Advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Recent publications by Brian Straughan include:

  • Thermosolutal Convection with a Navier-Stokes-Voigt Fluid, 2020, Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • Instability thresholds for thermal convection in a Kelvin-Voigt fluid of variable order, 2021, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo Series 2
  • Competitive Double Diffusive Convection in a Kelvin-Voigt Fluid of Order One, 2021, Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • Continuous dependence and convergence for a Kelvin-Voigt fluid of order one, 2021, ANNALI DELL UNIVERSITA DI FERRARA

Other notable work includes a paper coauthored with Maurizio Gentile titled Bidispersive Thermal Convection with Relatively Large Macropores, published in 2020 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Brian Straughan has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • A. Barletta
  • Maurizio Gentile
  • Franca Franchi
  • Roberta Nibbi
  • Giulia Giantesio

The researcher's publications have appeared in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publication outlets being:

  • ANNALI DELL UNIVERSITA DI FERRARA
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Transport in Porous Media

In addition to journal articles, Brian Straughan has contributed to scholarly books. One recent book published by Springer Nature in 2024 is titled Thermal Convection with a Cattaneo Flux Law.

Best Publications

  • The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection

    Brian Straughan

  • Stability and wave motion in porous media

    B. Straughan

  • Thermal convection with the Cattaneo–Christov model

    B. Straughan

  • Chebyshev tau-QZ algorithm methods for calculating spectra of hydrodynamic stability problems

    J. J. Dongarra;J. J. Dongarra;B. Straughan;D. W. Walker

  • Explosive instabilities in mechanics

    Brian Straughan

  • Uniqueness and structural stability for the Cattaneo–Christov equations

    M. Ciarletta;B. Straughan

  • Analysis of the boundary condition at the interface between a viscous fluid and a porous medium and related modelling questions

    L.E. Payne;B. Straughan

  • A sharp nonlinear stability threshold in rotating porous convection

    B Straughan

  • A Nonlinear Analysis of the Stabilizing Effect of Rotation in the Benard Problem

    G. P. Galdi;B. Straughan

  • Convergence and Continuous Dependence for the Brinkman–Forchheimer Equations

    L. E. Payne;B. Straughan

  • Exchange of stabilities, symmetry, and nonlinear stability

    Giovanni P. Galdi;Brian Straughan

  • Convection with Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Microfluidic Effects

    Brian Straughan

  • Poiseuille flow in a fluid overlying a porous medium.

    Antony A. Hill;Brian Straughan

  • Continuous dependence and convergence results for Brinkman and Forchheimer models with variable viscosity

    L. E. Payne;J. C. Song;B. Straughan

  • Global nonlinear stability in porous convection with a thermal non-equilibrium model

    B Straughan

  • Convection in a porous medium with internal heat source and variable gravity effects

    S. Rionero;B. Straughan

  • Instability of Poiseuille flow in a fluid overlying a porous layer

    Min-Hsing Chang;Falin Chen;Brian Straughan

  • Two Very Accurate and Efficient Methods for Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions in Porous Convection Problems

    B. Straughan;D.W. Walker

  • Stability and uniqueness in double porosity elasticity

    B. Straughan

  • Growth and uniqueness in thermoelasticity

    R. Quintanilla;B. Straughan

  • A note on discontinuity waves in type III thermoelasticity

    R. Quintanilla;B. Straughan

  • Convection in Porous Media

    Brian Straughan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramón Quintanilla
Ramón Quintanilla Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Lawrence E. Payne
Lawrence E. Payne Cornell University
Giovanni P. Galdi
Giovanni P. Galdi University of Pittsburgh
David W. Walker
David W. Walker Cardiff University
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Howard A. Levine
Howard A. Levine Iowa State University
Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Díaz
Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Díaz Complutense University of Madrid
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Roy A. Quinlan
Roy A. Quinlan Durham University

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