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Hugh Maurice Blackburn

Hugh Maurice Blackburn

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
5742
World Ranking
2506
National Ranking
83

Overview

Hugh Maurice Blackburn is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Engineering, with a specialization in Computational Mechanics. Their work broadly encompasses fluid dynamics, turbulent flows, and related numerical simulation techniques.

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • On the origins of steady streaming in precessing fluids, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • On the Boussinesq approximation in arbitrarily accelerating frames of reference, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Distributed vortex-wave interactions: the relation of self-similarity to the attached eddy hypothesis, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Semtex: Development and application of the solver methodology for incompressible flows with generalized Newtonian rheologies, 2025, Computer Physics Communications
  • Exact coherent structures in pipe flow in the presence of wall transpiration, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Juan M. López
  • Richard Manasseh
  • Patrice Meunier
  • T. Albrecht
  • J. B. Singh

The main venues for their publications reflect the focus of their research and include:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Computer Physics Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)

Their scientific work intersects several subfields of study, such as:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

Main topics of their research output include:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Numerical methods in inverse problems

Best Publications

  • A study of two-dimensional flow past an oscillating cylinder

    H. M. Blackburn;R. D. Henderson

  • Topology of fine-scale motions in turbulent channel flow

    Hugh M. Blackburn;Nagi N. Mansour;Brian J. Cantwell

  • Formulation of a Galerkin spectral element-fourier method for three-dimensional incompressible flows in cylindrical geometries

    H. M. Blackburn;S. J. Sherwin

  • Three-dimensional instabilities and transition of steady and pulsatile axisymmetric stenotic flows

    Spencer J Sherwin;Hugh Maurice Blackburn

  • Direct optimal growth analysis for timesteppers

    Dwight Barkley;Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Spencer John Sherwin

  • Convective instability and transient growth in flow over a backward-facing step

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Dwight Barkley;Spencer John Sherwin

  • A complementary numerical and physical investigation of vortex-induced vibration

    H.M. Blackburn;R.N. Govardhan;C.H.K. Williamson

  • Turbulent pipe flow of shear-thinning fluids

    Murray Rudman;Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Lachlan J W Graham;L Pullum

  • On three-dimensional quasiperiodic Floquet instabilities of two-dimensional bluff body wakes

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Juan M Lopez

  • The influence of pipe length on turbulence statistics computed from direct numerical simulation data

    Cheng Chin;Andrew Ooi;Ivan Marusic;Hugh Blackburn

  • Direct numerical simulation of turbulent non-Newtonian flow using a spectral element method

    Murray Rudman;Hugh Maurice Blackburn

  • Lock-in behavior in simulated vortex-induced vibration

    Hugh Blackburn;Ron Henderson

  • Symmetry breaking of two-dimensional time-periodic wakes

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Francisco Marques;Juan M Lopez

  • Two- and Three-Dimensional Simulations of Vortex-Induced Vibration of a Circular Cylinder

    H M Blackburn;G E Karniadakis

  • Transient growth analysis of flow through a sudden expansion in a circular pipe

    Christopher Cantwell;Dwight Barkley;Hugh Blackburn

  • The effect of free-stream turbulence on sectional lift forces on a circular cylinder

    H. M. Blackburn;W. H. Melbourne

  • Spectral element filtering techniques for large eddy simulation with dynamic estimation

    H. M. Blackburn;S. Schmidt

  • Convective instability and transient growth in steady and pulsatile stenotic flows

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Spencer John Sherwin;Dwight Barkley

  • The interaction of helical tip and root vortices in a wind turbine wake

    Michael Sherry;Andras Nemes;David Lo Jacono;Hugh Maurice Blackburn

  • Symmetry breaking of the flow in a cylinder driven by a rotating end wall

    H. M. Blackburn;Juan Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Rudman
Murray Rudman Monash University
Spencer J. Sherwin
Spencer J. Sherwin Imperial College London
Juan Lopez
Juan Lopez Arizona State University
Andrew Ooi
Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne
Beverley McKeon
Beverley McKeon California Institute of Technology
Dwight Barkley
Dwight Barkley University of Warwick
Ivan Marusic
Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne
Tamer A. Zaki
Tamer A. Zaki Johns Hopkins University
Jason Monty
Jason Monty University of Melbourne
Charles H. K. Williamson
Charles H. K. Williamson Cornell University

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