Dr Duncan Sutherland
I completed my PhD in 2014 in Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney. I then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Victoria University Melbourne on Physics-based Simulation of Bushfires, before joining 91成人版抖音in 2014. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022, was appointed deputy director of UNSW Bushfire in 2023, and was appointed maths discipline coordinator in 2024.聽
- Publications
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- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Enhancing resilience to ember attack on the urban fringe聽D. Sutherland, J Sharples.D. Sanderson, P. Barnes, Black Summer Recovery Grant $804000, 2022-2024.聽
Ember storms on the urban fringe D. Sutherland, J Sharples. Suburban Land Agency contract $70,000, 2022-2023
Gravity Current Driven Smoke Dispersion In a Stratified Ambient,聽A. Ooi, K.聽Moinuddin, D.聽Sutherland,聽R.聽Manasseh, ARC Discovery Project,聽$250,000聽2021-2024聽
Understanding the Origin and Development of Extreme and Mega Bushfires T.聽Penman, J.聽Sharples,聽K.聽Moinuddin, J. Hilton,聽D. Sutherland,聽C.聽Clements, ARC Discovery Project,聽$590,000 2021-2024聽
Fire spread across fuel types K. A. M. Moinuddin, G. R. Thorpe, A. Ooi, V. Novozhilov, J. Philip, D. Sutherland, Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, $523,000, 2017-2020
Predicting merging fire behaviour in Planned Burning T. Penman, A. Filkov, B. Cirulis. J. Sharples, D. Sutherland,聽Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, $100,000, 2020-2021
My research is the application of computational fluid dynamics simulation to problems motivated by bushfires. This is a broad and rich area encompassing, buoyancy driven flows, entrainment and mixing,聽particle transport, contaminant modelling, and combustion modelling.聽
Currently, my research is focussed on the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES), including combustion,聽of laboratory-scale extreme fire behaviour, and field-scale grassfires. I also conduct Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of buoyancy driven flow to understand the dynamics and mixing processes of gravity currents.聽
My Research Supervision
Tanvir Saurav, Nusrat Mehnaz, Will Swedosh, Mohamad Sadeghi.聽
My Teaching
Currently I teach two mathematics subjects: ZPEM1304 Engineering Mathematics 1B, and ZPEM3306 Waves and Fluids. If you are enrolled in one of those courses, please see the Moodle pages for more information.聽聽