Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- p.hicks@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274815
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
Dr Peter Hicks joined the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen in 2013. Dr Hicks holds an MMath from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia. Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, University College London and the University of East Anglia. He also spent time on industrial secondment work with AeroTex UK, investigating aircraft icing.
Dr Hicks' research interests are in fluid dynamics, mathematical modelling and industrial mathematics. His work is on the dynamics of violent fluid flows in relation to gas entrainment, phase change and splashing in droplet impacts, sloshing and ship slamming. He has also studied boundary layer receptivity and flows in porous media.
Dr Hicks is involved with the delivery of a range of undergraduate courses including in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, while he has previously held the roles Director of Postgraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering, Programme Coordinator for MSc Subsea Engineering, and the project coordinator for MSc and undergraduate projects.
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Engineering
Accepting PhDs - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Course coordinator for EG3007 Engineering Analysis and Methods.
Course coordinator for EG3521 Engineering Thermodynamics.
Course contributor for EG40JJ Fluid Dynamics.
- Publications
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Violent droplet impacts with non-flat surfaces
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 939, A31Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA comparison of pre-impact gas cushioning and Wagner theory for liquid-solid impacts
Physics of Fluids, vol. 31, 042101Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086510
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12140/3/pdf_archivePHFLE6vol_31iss_4042101_1_am.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12140/4/A_comparison_of_pre_impact_gas_cushioning_and_Wagner_theory_for_liquid_solid_impacts.pdf
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Modelling mist flow for investigating liquid loading in gas wells
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 170, pp. 476-484Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.06.023
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Streamwise-travelling viscous waves in channel flows
Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 23-49Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLNG-solid impacts with gas cushioning and phase change
Journal of fluids and structures, vol. 80, pp. 22-36Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDouble Contact During Drop Impact on a Solid Under Reduced Air Pressure
Physical Review Letters, vol. 119, no. 21, 214502Contributions to Journals: LettersGas-cushioned droplet impacts with a thin layer of porous media
Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 102, pp. 65-87Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConvex hull method for the determination of vapour-liquid equilibria (VLE) phase diagrams for binary and ternary systems
Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 431, pp. 34-47Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2016.09.024
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9337/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf
Laminar Streaks in Oscillating Boundary Layers
Procedia IUTAM, vol. 14, pp. 264–273Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLaminar streak growth above a spanwise oscillating wall
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 768, pp. 348-374Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.98
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4964/1/HicksRiccoJFM2015_postprint.pdf
