Dr Vincent Wheatley    Lecturer

	Biography

Dr Wheatley's research interests are in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics and Hypersonics

Dr Wheatley obtained his PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 2005. He also earned an MEngSc (Mechanical) and a BE (Mechanical and Space) from the University of Queensland (UQ). After completing his PhD in the US, Dr Wheatley spent two years as post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich. He was then a Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the Universiy of Adelaide before taking up his position at UQ in 2009. His research interests are in the areas of:

- Simulation of hypersonic flows
- Using high fidelity numerical simulations, validated by experiments, to provide new details and understanding of scramjet flow physics
- Mixing and combustion enhancement in scramjets
- Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities
- Numerical methods for MHD
- Bluff body wake dynamics
- Aeroacoustics, particularly passive noise control for bluff bodies

	Keywords
	Engineering: Magnetohydrodynamics, Engineering: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Engineering: Fluid Dynamics