Dr Peter Jacobs

Lecturer

email: peterj@mech.uq.edu.au
Tel: Int + 61 7 3365 4068
Fax: Int + 61 7 3365 4799

Undergraduate thesis projects on offer for 2002

Work Interests

• Computational Fluid Dynamics for Compressible Flow.
• Scramjet powered launch vehicles.
• Hypersonic Flight.
• Working with the following graduate students.
  Kevin Austin
  Richard Goozee
  Andrew McGhee
  Ben Stewart
  They're really a good bunch, honest!

Teaching (Current)

• ENGG1010 Applied Mechanics
• MECH2700 Mechanical Engineering Analysis I
• MECH3410 Fluid Mechanics
• MECH7430 Computational Fluid Dynamics - Advanced Topics

Teaching (Previous)

• 9E101 Applied Mechanics
• E4102 Mechanics of Machines
• E4212 Fluid Mechanics IM
• E4271 Computing in Mechanical Engineering I
• E4272 Mechanical Engineering Analysis I
• E4335 Data Acquisition & Instrumentation
• E4350 Fluid Mechanics IIM
• E4351 Gas Dynamics
• E4371 Computing in Mechanical Engineering II

Bibliography

Online Reports and Software

• IMOC
  An Interactive Method-of-Characteristics program for steady supersonic flow.
• A calculator for gas-dynamic relations.
  This is a toy to try out the Tcl plugin for web browsers.
• MB_CNS: A computer program for the simulation of transient compressible flows.
  Report 10/96 in (gzipped) postscript.
• The small shock tunnel facility at UQ.
  Report 2/97 in (gzipped) postscript.
• Single-block Navier-Stokes solver
  The original ICASE Interim Report 18 in (gzipped) postscript.
• MB_CNS User's Guide
  HTML document. This guide is also included in the software package.
• MB_CNS software
  This version tarred and gzipped.
• L1d software
  This version tarred and gzipped.
• CFD utility software
  You need this piece for both mb_cns and L1d.
• CFD plotting software
  This is handy if you don't have a plotting package like TECPLOT.
• Numerical Methods Software Library
  A collection of FORTRAN and C subroutines and functions that we have found useful.
• Supercomputing User Group Activities for 1996/97
  HTML document.

Administrivia

• Curriculum papers for Mechanical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Subject Descriptions for 1996
• Mechanical Engineering Seminars that we had in Semester 2, 1996
• Mechanical Engineering Seminars that we had in Semester 1, 1996
• Mechanical Engineering Seminars that we had in 1995
• Departmental Bibliography