Dr. Sergey Suslov   Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics

Qualifications

• PhD (Notre Dame, USA)
• MSc (MIPT, Moscow, Russia)

Areas of Expertise and Research

• Dynamical systems
• Scientific computing
• Centre Manifold theory
• Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation
• Nonlinear instability theory
• Non-Boussinesq convection
• Low dimensional dynamical modelling
• Theoretical and computational hydrodynamics
• Thermo-magnetic flows
• Flows of piezo-viscous fluids

Current Reseach Projects

• Thermo-magnetic convection in ferrocolloids
• Instabilty patterns in non-Boussinesq convection
• Ginzburg-Landau models of non-Boussinesq convection
• Modelling of oceanic spray
• Numerical study of dissociating hypersonic boundary layer flow

Membership of Professional Organisations

• Australian Mathematical Society
• Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society
• American Physical Society

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Md Habibur Rahman	PhD	Maths	2011	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
James Mason
	PhD	CSI	2012	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne
Pinkee Dey
	PhD	Maths	2012	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

Topics for Prospective Ph.D Students - View ALL topics for Dr. Sergey Suslov

Singular Integrals


Asymptotic analysis of non-linear spatio-temporal evolution


Low dimensional dynamical system modelling of subcritical nonlinear systems
The project will aim to overcome this difficulty by investigating the nature of the resonances and incorporating their appropriate model into the developed dynamical system.

Singular parabolic partial differential equations


Thermo-magnetic instabilities in ferro-magnetic nano-fluids
Ferrocolloids containing ferro-magnetic nano-particles suspended in water, kerosene or mineral oil have been industrially manufactured since 1960s.

Their unique magnetic and fluid properties found a wide range of applications from targeted drug delivery in cancer treatment to heat removal in spacecraft equipment where convective heat transfer impossible due to the lack of gravity.

Asymptotic analysis of non-linear spatio-temporal evolution


Thermo-magnetic instabilities in ferro-magnetic nano-fluids
Ferrocolloids containing ferro-magnetic nano-particles suspended in water, kerosene or mineral oil have been industrially manufactured since 1960s.

Their unique magnetic and fluid properties found a wide range of applications from targeted drug delivery in cancer treatment to heat removal in spacecraft equipment where convective heat transfer impossible due to the lack of gravity.

Flow and convection control in CVD reactors
The project will focus on modelling spatio-temporal CVD flow response to the introduction of small external perturbations in a flow system

Selected Recent Publications

1. Suslov, S.A. "Mechanism of nonlinear flow pattern selection in moderately non-Boussinesq mixed convection", Phys. Rev. E}, 81, 026301(1-7), 2010.
2. Suslov, S.A. "Analysis of instability patterns in non-Boussinesq mixed convection using a direct numerical evaluation of disturbance integrals", Computers & Fluids, 38, pp. 590-601, 2009.
3. Suslov SA, "Thermomagnetic convection in a vertical layer of ferromagnetic fluid", Physics of Fluids 21, 84101-84118 (2008)
4. Suslov SA, "Two-equation model of mean flow resonances in subcritical flow systems", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems --- Series S, Selected Topics, Inaugural issue (invitated paper), 1, 165-176 (2008).
5. Suslov SA and Tran TD, "Revisiting plane Couette-Poiseuille flows of a piezo-viscous fluid", Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 154, 170-178 (2008).
6. Suslov SA, "Analysis of instability patterns in non-Boussinesq mixed convection using a direct numerical evaluation of disturbance integrals, Computers and Fluids, DOI:10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.06.002 (2008).
7. Suslov SA, "Convective and absolute instabilities in non-Boussinesq mixed convection", Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics 21, 271-290 (2007)
8. Suslov SA, "Numerical aspects of searching convective/absolute instability transition", Journal of Computational Physics 212, 188-217 (2006)
9. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "Stability of non-Boussinesq convection via the complex Ginzburg-Landau model ", Fluid Dynamics Research 35, 159-203 (2004)
10. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "A Petrov-Galerkin method for flows in cavities: enclosure of aspect ratio", International Journal for numerical methods in fluids 40, 999-1007 (2002)
11. Suslov SA "Searching convective/absolute instability boundary for flows with fully numerical dispersion relation", Computer Physics Communications 142, 322-325 (2001)
12. Suslov SA and Roberts AJ, "Modeling of sample dynamics in rectangular asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation channels", Analytical Chemistry 72, 4331-4345 (2000)
13. Suslov SA and Roberts AJ, "Advection-dispersion in symmetric field-flow fractionation channels", Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 26, 27-46 (1999)
14. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "Nonlinear stability of mixed convection flow under non-Boussinesq conditions. Part 1. Analysis and bifurcations", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 398, 61-85 (1999)
15. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "Nonlinear stability of mixed convection flow under non-Boussinesq conditions. Part 2. Mean flow characteristics", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 398, 87-108 (1999)
16. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "Nonlinear analysis of convection flow in a tall vertical enclosure under non-Boussinesq conditions", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 344, 1-41 (1997)
17. Suslov SA and Paolucci S., "Stability of mixed-convection flow in a tall vertical channel under non-Boussinesq conditions", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 302, 91-115 (1995)