Research interests, Publications. Administration,

Peter Blennerhassett

Senior Lecturer

Office:

Room 3073, Red Centre

Phone:

+61 (0)2 9385 7055

Fax:

+61 (0)2 9385 7123

Email:

P.Blennerhassett@unsw.edu.au

Mail:

School of Mathematics
The University of New South Wales
UNSW Sydney 2052, NSW Australia

Research Interests

The linear and nonlinear stability of fluid flows, with particular interests in:

• Boundary layer flows
• Unsteady flows
• Wave vortex interaction

Administration

• Director of First Year Studies in Mathematics & Statistics

Selected Recent Publications

• Bassom, A. P. and Blennerhassett, P. J., Long wavelength vortices in time-periodic flows, J. Austral Math. Soc. Ser. B , 39 (1998), 498-512.
• Russell, C., Blennerhassett, P.J., and Stiles, P.J., Strongly non-linear vortices in magnetised ferrofluids, J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B., 40 (1998), 146-170.
  
• Blennerhassett, P. J. and Denier, J. P. and Bassom, A. P., Large wavenumber vortices in time-periodic flows, Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser A, 454 (1998), 2689-2722.
• Russell, C. L. and Blennerhassett, P. J. and Stiles, P. J., Supercritical analysis of strongly non-linear vortices in magnetized ferrofluids, Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser A, 455 (1999), 23-67.
• S.O. MacKerrell, P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, Gortler vortices in the Rayleigh layer on an impulsively started cylinder, Physics of Fluids 14 (2002), 2948-2956.
• P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, The linear stability of flat Stokes layers, J. Fluid Mech. 464 (2002), 393-410.
• A.P. Bassom and P.J. Blennerhassett, Impulsively generated convection in a semi-infinite fluid layer above a heated flat plate, Q. Jl Mech. Appl. Math. 55 (2002), 573-595.
• P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, The linear stability of high-frequency oscillatory flow in a channel, J. Fluid Mech. 556 (2006), 1-25.
• P.J. Blennerhassett and A.P. Bassom, The linear stability of high-frequency flow in a torsionally oscillating cylinder, J. Fluid Mech. 576 (2007), 491-505.