Team

Dr Simon Harrison is a Senior Research Scientist in Data61’s Computational Modelling group who combines mesh-free particle methods with biomechanical models in computational simulations to problems in the areas of human performance, injury, food digestion, and health.

Contact: Simon.Harrison@data61.csiro.au

Dr Raymond Cohen is a Research Scientist within Data61’s Computational Modelling Group who specialises in computational modelling of urban flooding, fluid dynamics and biomechanics. His application areas include urban flood modelling and adaptation assessment; elite sports modelling of platform diving and swimming; and strategic research into automated motion capture. Raymond holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne.

Contact: Raymond.Cohen@csiro.au

Dr Paul Cleary graduated with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Monash University in 1988. He was then a visiting CSIRO post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. In 1991 he joined CSIRO as a research scientist and has since been involved in computational modelling of industrial fluid and granular flows. He has developed world class Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) capabilities for predicting the flow of granular materials in industrial processes and particularly in mixing, separation, comminution, storage, transport and excavation. He is also a leading developer of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for industrial fluid dynamics, with applications in material forming, extreme geophysical flows, digital content generation, multiphase and bubbly flow, biomechanical and biomedical applications. He has a strong interest in software development processes and is also the leader of the Workspace development project. He has been actively involved in commercial project delivery and commercialisation of the group’s substantial IP base. Paul is the author of more than 380 research publications and more than 165 technical and commercial reports.

Contact: Paul.Cleary@data61.csiro.au

Dr. Matthew Sinnott has 15 years of expertise in modelling applications to improve mining equipment performance, to identify disease mechanisms in biomedical flows (cardiovascular and gastrointestinal), to provide better handling of bulk materials, to enable more efficient powder mixing devices, and to investigate off-road vehicle dynamics on unstable terrain.

Contact: Matthew.Sinnott@data61.csiro.au

Dr. Sharen Cummins completed her PhD at the Mathematics Department in Monash University, Clayton in 2000, specialising in modelling incompressible flows using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). She then worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a post-doctoral associate and research scientist where she developed particle and grid based numerical techniques and software to model granular and fluid flows, crystallisation and casting processes. In 2008 she joined the Computational Modelling group in CSIRO as a software and algorithm developer where her work supports the accurate, efficient and robust simulation of industrial, biological and geophysical applications. Her career interests are in particle (SPH and the Discrete Element Method) and grid based methods (Finite Volume and Finite Element); in particular their coupling to model multiple physics and their efficient implementation in large commercial codes.

Contact: Sharen.Cummins@data61.csiro.au