Hugh M Blackburn

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Hugh M Blackburn
Professor of Fluid Dynamics
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Monash University
Vic 3800
Australia
Send email to hugh.blackburn"@"eng.monash.edu.au

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Flow gallery

Semtex DNS code

Publications

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There are no specific funded projects available at this time.

Flow Gallery


An animation of the period-doubling breakdown of pulsatile flow in an axisymmetric constricted tube (Sherwin & Blackburn 2005, Blackburn & Sherwin 2007). This is an idealised representation of blood flow in an artery with 75% occlusion, Reynolds number 400, Womersley number 15.85. The vortex rings that are blown out of the constriction with each pulse tilt slightly forward, then backward, on successive periods. Under self-induction and wall interaction of the vorticity in the ring, this tilting proceeds rapidly to an energetic breakdown.


Animation of bypass transition in pulsatile stenotic pipe flow in which the pulse waveform represents typical flow in the human common carotid artery (Mao, Sherwin & Blackburn 2010). Linear transient energy growth is extremely large, of order 1×1025 within half a pulse period for suitable intial disturbances at Reynolds number Re=300. For even a tiny seeding with the optimal initial disturbance, a puff of turbulence is generated downstream of the stenosis. This washes slowly downstream and decays during subsequent pulse cycles. Mean flow is from left to right and the stenosis is to the left of the field of view.


Animation of transient two-dimensional convective instability in flow over a backward-facing step at Re=500 (Blackburn, Barkley & Sherwin 2008, Barkley, Blackburn & Sherwin 2008), visualised as contours of perturbation vorticity. The optimal disturbance initial condition is a wave packet that is very tightly clustered around the step edge, and grows into an array of counter-rotating rollers that fill the downstream channel, at a location past both (upper and lower) separation zones, before eventually decaying. The maximum two-dimensional energy growth at this Reynolds number is 63.1×103.


The flow generated by a circular cylinder moving from side to side in quiescent fluid has a number of different instability modes, depending on the amplitude and period of the motion. This image of massless particles advected by a quasi-periodic instability mode shows how small puffs form up into large-scale vortices that move away from the cylinder along the axis of oscillation (Elston, Blackburn & Sheridan, 2006).

Mode A, Re=195 Mode B, Re=265 Mode TW, Re=400
Karman-street wakes of two-dimensional bodies generically have three kinds of three-dimensional instability modes; two distinct synchronous modes which at onset have the same frequency as the underlying wake, and two related quasi-periodic modes (standing and travelling waves), one of which may be stable. Here we see in top view the two synchronous modes of the circular cylinder wake (modes A and B), and the travelling wave mode, which is the third to bifurcate from the two-dimensional basic state as Reynolds numbers are increased (Blackburn, Marques & Lopez, 2005).

t=t0 t=t0+T/2
Isosurfaces of vorticity indicating a synchronous three-dimensional instability mode of a flow in a periodically driven two-dimensional rectangular cavity (Blackburn & Lopez 2003). The cavity cross-section has a height:width ratio of 2:1, and the lower floor has an imposed sinusoidal oscillation of temporal period T. The symmetry group of the base flow is identical to that of many time-periodic wakes, and the three-dimensional instability modes consequently have the same symmetry properties as e.g. those of the circular cylinder wake. There are two control parameters, a Reynolds number and a Stokes number. Here, at St=20 and Re=535, the first mode to become unstable is a short-wavelength one, with some similarity to the cylinder wake's mode B. Translucent isosurfaces are of wall-parallel vorticity, while the solid red/yellow surfaces are of the vertical vorticity component. At other parameter values, this flow also has a long-wavelength synchronous mode and a quasi-periodic modulated travelling wave mode.

Periodic axisymmetric state, Re=3000 Rotating wave with 6-fold symmetry, Re=4000

Instabilities of the flow produced by steady rotation of the lower lid of a cylindrical cavity with height/radius ratio H/R=2.5. At low Reynolds numbers the flow is axisymetric, steady, and has an axial vortex breakdown. The flow first becomes unstable to a periodic axisymmetric instability through a Hopf bifurcation at Re=2707, but at higher Reynolds numbers rotating waves also become unstable, and are modulated by the axisymmetric pulsation. Blackburn & Lopez (2000), Blackburn (2002), Blackburn & Lopez (2002).


Colour contours of spanwise- and phase-averaged spanwise component of vorticity from a three-dimensional simulation of flow past a circular cylinder in vortex-induced vibration, at Re=720, Vr=6.5 (Blackburn, Govardhan & Williamson 2001). The four frames illustrate averages for phase-points equispaced over the average vortex-shedding period. Note the clear indication of 2P-mode shedding, the first time this had been documented as a phase-averaged result in a DNS study. The average oscillation amplitude was approximately 0.45D. Download an MPEG movie from the simulation (6.4MB).


The pattern produced by tracking massless particles in two-dimensional flow past a swimming cylinder (Blackburn, Elston & Sheridan 1999). The cylinder has forced oscillations both in the vertical direction and in rotation about its axis. The time-average effect is to create a low pressure region to the left of the cylinder; if the cylinder is free to move horizontally, it 'swims' to the left, leaving behind it a sequence of puff-like structures, seen here.

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As one stage in the 'dynamic' procedure for large-eddy simulation, velocity fields need explicit smoothing, or spatial low-pass filtering, to remove fine-scale fluctuations. These panels show contours of streamwise velocity component on a slice through a spectral element simulation of a turbulent channel flow, both before filtering, and after a filter was applied in the Legendre polynomial space projection of the data in each element (Blackburn & Schmidt 2003).


A perspective side-view of near-wall structures in a turbulent boundary layer, visualised with an instantaneous isosurface of a positive value of the discriminant of the velocity gradient tensor (Blackburn, Mansour & Cantwell 1996). When the discriminant is positive, the velocity gradient tensor has a pair of complex-conjugate eigenvalues and a single real eigenvalue, so the local fluid motion has a spiralling character. The isosurfaces mark a a large number of distinct structures that are nearly parallel to the wall in the buffer layer, which, further from the wall, tilt to have an orientation closer to 45o downstream, i.e. aligned with the direction of time-average maximum strain rate. The time-mean flow direction is indicated by the arrow.

Semtex DNS code

Semtex is my direct numerical simulation CFD code that uses the `classical' nodal spectral element method as the underlying discretisation. Semtex was used to generate most of the simulation results described above, and is also the base code for most of the work described in the publications listed below. It is released for public use under the terms of the Gnu General Public License (GPL). For more information and source code, follow this link.

Publications*

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Journal articles

Submitted

Mao X, Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2012)
Optimal suppression of transient energy growth using boundary perturbations.
Mao X, Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2012)
Calculation of global optimal initial and boundary perturbations for the linearised incompressible Navier–Stokes equations.

In press

Mao X, Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2012)
Non-normal dynamics of co-rotating vortex pairs J Fluid Mech.
Mao X, Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2012)
Optimal inflow boundary condition perturbations in steady stenotic flows J Fluid Mech.

In print

Klewicki J, Chin C, Blackburn HM, Ooi A & Marusic I (2012)
Emergence of the four layer dynamical regime in turbulent pipe flow Phys Fluids 24: 045107-1–14. PDF
Koal K, Stiller J & Blackburn HM (2012)
Adapting the spectral vanishing viscosity method for large-eddy simulations in cylindrical configurations J Comput Phys 231: 3389–3405. PDF
Loh SA & Blackburn HM (2011)
Stability of steady flow through an axially corrugated pipe Phys Fluids 23(11): 111703-1–4. PDF
Saha S, Chin C, Blackburn HM & Ooi ASH (2011)
The influence of pipe length on thermal statistics computed from DNS of turbulent heat transfer Int J Heat Fluid Flow 32:1083–1097. PDF
Mao X, Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2011)
Transient growth and bypass transition in stenotic flow with a physiological waveform Theoret Comput Fluid Dyn 25(1): 31–42. PDF
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2011)
Modulated waves in a periodically driven annular cavity J Fluid Mech 667: 336–357. PDF
Chin C, Ooi ASH, Marusic I & Blackburn HM (2010)
The influence of pipe length on turbulence statistics computed from direct numerical simulation data Phys Fluids 22: 115107-1–10. PDF
Blackburn HM & Sheard GJ (2010)
On quasi-periodic and subharmonic Floquet wake instabilities Phys Fluids 22: 031701-1–4. PDF
Cantwell CD, Barkley D & Blackburn HM (2010)
Transient growth analysis of flow through a sudden expansion in a circular pipe Phys Fluids 22: 034101-1–15. PDF
Barkley D, Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2008)
Direct optimal growth analysis for timesteppers Int J Num Methods Fluids 57: 1435–1458. PDF
Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ & Barkley D (2008)
Convective instability and transient growth in steady and pulsatile stenotic flows J Fluid Mech 607: 267–277. PDF
Blackburn HM, Barkley D & Sherwin SJ (2008)
Convective instability and transient growth in flow over a backward-facing step J Fluid Mech 603: 271–304. PDF
Lester DR, Rudman M, Metcalfe GP & Blackburn HM (2008)
Global parametric solutions of scalar transport J Comp Phys 227: 3032–3057. PDF
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2007)
Instability modes and transition of pulsatile stenotic flow: pulse-period dependence J Fluid Mech 573: 57–88. PDF
Prakash M, Cleary PW, Ha J, Noui-Mehedi MN, Blackburn HM & Brooks G (2007)
Simulation of suspension of solids in a liquid in a mixing tank using SPH and comparison with physical modelling experiments Prog Comp Fluid Dyn 7(2/3/4): 91–100.
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (2006)
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent non-Newtonian flow using a spectral element method Appl Math Mod 30(11): 1229–1248. PDF
Elston JR, Blackburn HM & Sheridan J (2006)
The primary and secondary instabilities of flow generated by an oscillating circular cylinder J Fluid Mech 550: 359–389. PDF
Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2005)
Three-dimensional instabilities and transition of steady and pulsatile axisymmetric stenotic flows J Fluid Mech 533: 297–327. PDF
Leung JJF, Hirsa AH, Blackburn HM, Lopez JM & Marques F (2005)
Three-dimensional modes in a periodically driven elongated cavity Phys Rev E 71: 026305-1–7. PDF
Blackburn HM, Marques F & Lopez JM (2005)
Symmetry breaking of two-dimensional time-periodic wakes J Fluid Mech 522: 395–411. PDF
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2004)
Formulation of a Galerkin spectral element–Fourier method for three-dimensional incompressible flows in cylindrical geometries J Comp Phys 197(2): 759–778. PDF
Rudman M, Blackburn HM, Graham LJW & Pullum L (2004)
Turbulent pipe flow of non-Newtonian fluids J Non-Newt Fluid Mech 118(1): 33–48. PDF
Marques F, Lopez JM & Blackburn HM (2004)
Bifurcations in systems with Z2 spatio-temporal and O(2) spatial symmetry Physica D 189(3/4): 247–276. PDF
Elston JR, Sheridan J & Blackburn HM (2004)
Two-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the flow produced by an oscillating circular cylinder in quiescent fluid Euro J Mech/B-Fluids 23: 99–106. PDF
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2003)
The onset of three-dimensional standing and modulated travelling waves in a periodically driven cavity flow J Fluid Mech 497: 289–317. PDF
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2003)
On three-dimensional quasi-periodic Floquet instabilities of two-dimensional bluff body wakes Phys Fluids 15(8): L57–60. PDF
Blackburn HM & Schmidt S (2003)
Spectral element filtering techniques for large eddy simulation with dynamic estimation J Comp Phys 186(2): 610–629. PDF
Blackburn HM (2002)
Mass and momentum transport from a sphere in steady and oscillatory flows Phys Fluids 14(11): 3997–4001. PDF
Blackburn HM (2002)
Three-dimensional instability and state selection in an oscillatory axisymmetric swirling flow Phys Fluids 14(11): 3983–3996. PDF
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2002)
Modulated rotating waves in an enclosed swirling flow J Fluid Mech 465: 33–58. PDF
Blackburn HM, Govardhan R & Williamson CHK (2001)
A complementary numerical and physical investigation of vortex-induced vibration J Fluids & Structures 15(3/4): 481–488. PDF
Blackburn HM (2001)
Sidewall boundary layer instabilities in an enclosed swirling flow J Turbulence 2 009. PDF
Blackburn HM (2001)
Dispersion and diffusion in coated tubes of arbitrary cross-section Computers & Chemical Engineering 25(2/3): 313–322. PDF
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2000)
Symmetry breaking of the flow in a cylinder driven by a rotating endwall Phys Fluids 12(11): 2698–2701. PDF
Blackburn HM (2000)
Domain decomposition with Robin boundary conditions across a phase interface ANZIAM J 42(E): C263–C290. PDF
McIver DM, Blackburn HM & Nathan GJ (2000)
Spectral element–Fourier methods applied to turbulent pipe flow ANZIAM J 42(E): C954–C977. PDF
Blackburn HM, Elston JR, Niclasen DA, Rudman M & Wu J (2000)
A hybrid method for simulation of flows in stirred tanks Appl Math Mod 24: 795–805. PDF
Blackburn HM & Graham LJW (2000)
Vortex breakdown — theory and experiment Album of Visualization 17: 13–14.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1999)
A study of two-dimensional flow past an oscillating cylinder J Fluid Mech 385: 255–286. PDF
Blackburn HM, Elston JR & Sheridan J (1999)
Bluff body propulsion produced by combined rotary and translational oscillation Phys Fluids 11(1): 4–6. PDF
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1997)
Sectional lift forces for an oscillating cylinder in smooth and turbulent flows J Fluids & Structures 11(4): 413–431. PDF
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1996)
Lock-in behaviour in simulated vortex-induced vibration Exptl Thermal & Fluid Sci 12(2): 184–189. PDF
Blackburn HM, Mansour NN & Cantwell BJ (1996)
Topology of fine-scale motions in turbulent channel flow J Fluid Mech 310: 269–292. PDF
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1996)
The effect of free-stream turbulence on sectional lift forces on a circular cylinder J Fluid Mech 306: 267–292. PDF
Blackburn HM (1994)
Effect of blockage on spanwise correlation in a circular cylinder wake Expts Fluids 18(1/2):134–136. PDF
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1993)
Cross flow response prediction of slender circular-cylindrical structures: prediction models and recent experimental results J Wind Engng & Ind Aero 49: 167–176.PDF
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1992)
Lift on an oscillating cylinder in smooth and turbulent flow J Wind Engng & Ind Aero 41: 79–90.PDF
Attwood R & Blackburn HM (1986)
Predicted moisture loss from soft brown coal during transport by overland conveyor Mech Engng Trans, IEAust 1 March, 12–15.

Book Chapters

Blackburn HM (2003)
Computational bluff body fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity Coupling of Fluids, Structures and Waves Problems in Aeronautics Eds NG Barton & J Periaux: Springer, Notes in Numerical Fluid Mechanics, 10–23. PDF
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (2003)
Turbulent pipe flow of non-Newtonian fluids Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002 Eds S Armfield, P Morgan & K Srinivas: Springer, 687–692.
Blackburn HM (2000)
Sidewall boundary layer instabilities in confined swirling flow Advances in Turbulence VIII Ed C Dopazo: CIMNE, 607–610.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1995)
Wake dynamics in flow past an oscillating cylinder Numerical Methods in Laminar & Turbulent Flow IX Eds C Taylor & P Durbetaki: Pineridge Press, 1479–1490.

Conference papers

Blackburn HM, Hall P & Sherwin SJ (2011)
Semi-asymptotic methodology for vortex-wave interaction applied to computing equilibria in parallel shear flow BIFD 2011 Barcelona, July.
Zhu SJ, Blackburn HM, Anderson B & Ooi ASH (2010)
Towards large eddy simulation of bubble dispersion in high Reynolds number wake flows 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Saha S, Chin CC, Blackburn HM, & Ooi ASH (2010)
Numerical study of heat transfer in a fully develeoped turbulent pipe flow 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Dawson STM & Blackburn HM (2010)
Numerical simulation of a bifurcating jet within a radially confined domain 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Smith DM & Blackburn HM (2010)
Transient growth analysis for axisymmetric pulsatile pipe flows in a rigid straight circular pipe 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Sheard GJ & Blackburn HM (2010)
Steady inflow though a model aneurysm: global and transient stability 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Batchelor R, Blackburn HM & Manasseh R (2010)
Simulations of axisymmetric inertial waves in a rotating container of fluid 17AFMC, Auckland, December. PDF
Loh SA & Blackburn HM (2010)
Stability of steady flow through a corrugated pipe 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Nebauer JRA & Blackburn HM (2010)
On the stability of time-periodic pipe flow 17AFMC, Auckland, December.
Blackburn HM, Mao X & Sherwin SJ (2010)
Lagrangian-based methods for computing optimal boundary perturbations ERCOFTAC SIG33 TMPC, Nice, July.
Stiller J, Koal K, Blackburn HM & Serre E (2010)
SVV kernels for LES in cylindrical coordinates ERCOFTAC ETMM 8, Marseille, June.
Zhu SJ, Ooi A, Blackburn HM & Anderson B (2010)
Validation of numerical model for bubble dispersion over a hydrofoil Oceans 10, Sydney, May.
Nebauer JR & Blackburn HM (2009)
Stability of oscillatory and pulsatile pipe flow 7th Int Conf CFD Minerals & Proc. Ind., Melbourne, December.
Zhu SJ, Ooi A, Blackburn HM & Anderson B (2009)
Numerical simulatons of bubble dispersion over a hydrofoil 7th Int Conf CFD Minerals & Proc. Ind., Melbourne, December.
Chin CC, Ooi A, Marusic I & Blackburn HM (2009)
Effects of computation pipe length on turbulence statistics using DNS of turbulent pipe flow APS DFD Minneapolis, MN, November.
Zhu SJ, Ooi A, Blackburn HM & Anderson B (2009)
Numerical simulations of bubble dispersion over a hydrofoil APS DFD Minneapolis, MN, November.
Chin CC, Ooi A, Marusic I & Blackburn HM (2009)
Effects of computation pipe length on turbulence statistics using DNS of turbulent pipe flow EAPW09 Portland, OR, November.
Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ & Barkley D (2009)
Global stability and transient growth in physiological-type flows Global Flow Instability and Control IV, Crete, September.
Blackburn HM (2009)
Oscillating cylinders, oscillating flows From fast cars to slow flows over bluff bodies, Imperial College, June.
Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ & Barkley D (2009)
Computing optimal growth behaviour for pulsatile stenotic flows ICOSAHOM 09, Trondheim, June.
Koal K, Stiller J & Blackburn HM (2009)
SVV-LES of elctromagnetically driven flows in cylindrical cavities ICOSAHOM 09, Trondheim, June.
Blackburn HM, Mao, X & Sherwin SJ (2009)
Transient growth in stenotic flow with a physiologically realistic waveform APAB 09, Christchurch, April.
Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ & Barkley D (2008)
Optimal transient disturbances in stenotic flows APS DFD, San Antonio, TX, November.
Stiller S, Koal K & Blackburn HM (2008)
Turbulence in electrically conducting fluids driven by rotating and travelling magnetic fields iTi Conf Turbulence III, Bertinoro, Italy, October.
Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ & Barkley D (2008)
Computation of convective instability in complex geometry flows XXII ICTAM, Adelaide, August.
Sherwin SJ, Blackburn HM & Barkley D (2008)
Direct optimal growth analysis for timesteppers AIAA 4th Flow Control Conf, Seattle, June. AIAA-2008-4231
Blackburn HM, Ooi A & Chong MS (2007)
The effect of corrugation height on flow in a wavy-walled pipe 16AFMC, Gold Coast, December.
Ooi A, Blackburn HM, Zhu S, Lui E & Tae W (2007)
Numerical study of the behaviour of wall shear stress in pulsatile stenotic flows AFMC16, Gold Coast, December.
Noui-Mehidi NM, Blackburn HM & Ohmura N (2007)
Laminar spirals in the outer stationary cylinder Couette–Taylor system 16AFMC, Gold Coast, December.
Barkley D, Blackburn HM, Sherwin SJ (2007)
Convective instability and transient growth in flow over a backward-facing step APS DFD, Salt Lake City, UT, November.
Blackburn HM, Barkley D & Sherwin SJ (2007)
Optimal growth of flow instabilities in arbitrary geometries ICOSAHOM 07, Beijing, June.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2007)
Computed instability and transition of pulsatile stenotic flow ICOSAHOM 07, Beijing, June.
Sherwin SJ, Blackburn HM & Barkley D (2007)
Spectral/hp stability analysis of complex geometry flows 14th Intnl Conf Finite Elements in Flow Problems, Santa Fe, NM, May.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2006)
Instability modes and transition of pulsatile stenotic flow Australian Workshop on Fluid Mech Melbourne, December.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2006)
Instability, transition and receptivity of pulsatile flow in a stenotic tube 5th Int Conf CFD Minerals & Proc. Ind. Melbourne, December.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2006)
Instability modes and transition of pulsatile stenotic flow APS DFD Tampa, FL, November.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2006)
Convective and absolute instability of pulsatile stenotic flow 3rd Intnl Sympo. Modelling of Physiological Flows Bergamo, September.
Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2006)
Direct simulation of turbulence and transition in steady and pulsatile flow in a model stenotic geometry 5th World Cong Biomech, Munich, July.
Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2006)
Instability and transition of pulsatile flow in stenotic/constricted pipes Euromech 2006, Stockholm, June.
Prakash, M, Cleary, PW, Ha, J, Noui-Mehidi MN, Blackburn HM, & Brooks G (2005)
Simulation of suspension of solids in a liquid in a mixing tank using SPH and comparison with physical modelling experiments 4th Int Conf CFD in Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industies, Trondheim, June.
Elston JR, Sheridan J & Blackburn HM (2005)
Three-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the flow produced by an oscillating cylinder in quiescent fluid BBVIV4 Santorini, June.
Noui-Mehidi MN, Blackburn HM, Manasseh R, Brooks G & Rudman M (2005)
An experimental study on floating solids in a liquid bath EPD Cong, TMS Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, February.
Blackburn HM, Lopez JM & Marques F (2004)
Three-dimensional quasi-periodic instabilities of two-dimensional time-periodic flows 15AFMC Sydney, December. PDF
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2004)
Three-dimensional instabilities and transition in pulsatile stenotic flows 15AFMC Sydney, December. PDF
Schmidt S, Blackburn HM & Rudman M (2004)
Impact of outlet boundary conditions on the flow properties in a cyclone 15AFMC Sydney, December. PDF
Leung JJF, Hirsa AH, Blackburn HM, Marques F & Lopez JM (2004)
Three-dimensional modes in a periodically driven elongated cavity APS DFD Seattle, WA, November.
Marques F, Lopez JM & Blackburn HM, (2004)
Symmetry breaking of two-dimensional time-periodic wakes APS DFD Seattle, WA, November.
Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2004)
Three-dimensional instabilities of steady and pulsatile axisymmetric stenotic flows APS DFD Seattle, WA, November.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2004)
A new spectrally convergent spectral element–Fourier formulation for solution of Navier–Stokes problems in cylindrical coordinates ICOSAHOM 2004 Brown University, RI, June.
Marques F, Lopez JM & Blackburn HM (2004)
Sobre las inestabilidades tridimensionales de flujos bidimensionales con simetría espacio-temporal Z2 Nolineal 2004 Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, June.
Sherwin SJ & Blackburn HM (2003)
BiGlobal instabilities of steady and pulsatile flow in a 75% axisymmetric stenotic tube Intnl Bio-Fluid Symposium and Workshop Caltech, USA, December. PDF
Schmidt S, Blackburn HM, Rudman M & Sutalo I (2003)
Simulation of turbulent flow in a cyclonic separator 3rd Int Conf CFD Minerals & Proc. Ind. Melbourne, December.
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (2003)
The effect of shear-thinning behaviour on turbulent pipe flow 3rd Int Conf CFD Minerals & Proc. Ind. Melbourne, December.
Leung JJF, Hirsa, AH, Lopez JM & Blackburn HM (2003)
Endwall effects in periodically driven cavity flow APS DFD Meadowlands, NJ, November.
Blackburn HM & Sherwin SJ (2003)
Floquet stability analysis of non-axisymmetric pulsatile stenotic flows World Cong Med Phys & Biomed Eng Sydney, August.
Elston JR, Sheridan J & Blackburn HM (2002)
Two-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the flow produced by an oscillating cylinder in quiescent fluid BBVIV3 Port Douglas, December.
Vogel M, Hirsa AH, Lopez JM & Blackburn HM (2002)
Spatio-temporal dynamics of a periodically driven cavity flow APS DFD Dallas, TX, November.
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (2002)
Turbulent pipe flow of non-Newtonian fluids Int Conf CFD 2 Sydney, July.
Rudman M, Graham LJW, Blackburn HM & Pullum L (2002)
Non-Newtonian turbulent and transitional pipe flow 15th Int Conf Hydrotransport Banff, June.
Blackburn HM (2001)
Computational bluff body fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity CSIRO/CNRS/Dassault Workshop on Coupling of Fluids, Structures and Waves in Aeronautics Melbourne, December.
Blackburn HM & Lopez JM (2001)
Symmetry breaking to modulated rotating waves in an enclosed swirling flow 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 179–182. PDF
Blackburn HM & Schmidt S (2001)
Large eddy simulation of flow past a circular cylinder 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 689–692. PDF
Elston JR, Sheridan J & Blackburn, HM (2001)
The transition to three-dimensionality in the flow produced by an oscillating circular cylinder 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 319–322. PDF
Rudman M, Blackburn HM, Graham LJW & Pullum L (2001)
Weakly turbulent pipe flow of a power law fluid 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 925–928. PDF
Schmidt S & Blackburn HM (2001)
Spectral element based dynamic large eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 391–394. PDF
Schmidt S, McIver DM, Blackburn HM, Rudman M & Nathan GJ (2001)
Spectral element based simulation of turbulent pipe flow 14AFMC Adelaide, December. 917–920. PDF
Elston JR, Blackburn HM & Sheridan J (2000)
The onset of three-dimensionality in the flow generated by an oscillating cylinder APS DFD Washington, DC, November.
Lopez JM, Marques F, Sanchez J & Blackburn HM (2000)
Multiple unsteady solutions and symmetry breaking in a confined swirling flow APS DFD Washington, DC, November.
Blackburn HM, Govardhan R & Williamson CHK (2000)
A complementary numerical and physical investigation of vortex-induced vibration IUTAM Sympo Bluff Body Wakes & VIV Marseille, June.
Blackburn, HM (2000)
Sidewall boundary layer instabilities in confined swirling flow 8th European Turbulence Conf Barcelona, June.
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (1999)
Large eddy simulation of turbulent pipe flow 2nd Intnl Conf CFD in Minerals & Process Ind Melbourne, December.
Blackburn, HM (1999)
Domain decomposition with Robin boundary conditions across a phase interface CTAC99 Canberra, September.
McIver DM, Blackburn HM & Nathan GJ (1999)
Spectral element–Fourier methods applied to turbulent pipe flow CTAC99 Canberra, September.
Blackburn HM (1998)
Channel flow LES with spectral elements 13AFMC Melbourne, December, 989–992.
Blackburn, HM (1998)
A comparison of two- and three-dimensional wakes of an oscillating circular cylinder 13AFMC Melbourne, December, 749–752. PDF
Rudman M & Blackburn HM (1998)
Turbulent Taylor–Couette flow 13AFMC Melbourne, December, 163–166.
Blackburn HM, Elston JR & Sheridan J (1998)
Flows created by a cylinder with oscillatory translation and spin ASME Fluids Engng Div. Summer Meeting Washington DC, June, FEDSM98–5157.
Rudman M, Blackburn HM & Merrell J (1997)
Bubble rise in an inclined channel Intnl Conf CFD in Min, Met Proc & Power Gen Melbourne, July. PDF
Niclasen RD & Blackburn, HM (1997)
Gauss and Gauss–Lobatto element quadratures applied to the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations CTAC97 Adelaide, September, 457–464. PDF
Niclasen RD, Rudman M, Blackburn HM & Wu J (1997)
Flow simulation of a mixing vessel incorporating blade element theory Intnl Conf CFD in Min, Met Proc & Power Gen Melbourne, July, 395–401.
Welsh MC, Pullum L, Downie RJ, Cooper PI & Blackburn HM (1996)
The role of small-scale physical modelling of fluid dynamic processes in mineral processing Adv Alumina Tech Darwin, June, ii–xvi.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1995)
Near-wake vorticity dynamics in bluff body flows 12AFMC Sydney, December, 17–20.
Niclasen RD & Blackburn HM (1995)
A comparison of mass-lumping techniques for the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations 12AFMC Sydney, December, 17–20.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1995)
Phase control of vortex shedding during lock-in APS DFD 40(12) Irvine, California, November.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1995)
Wake dynamics in flow past an oscillating cylinder 9th Intnl Conf Num Meth Laminar & Turb Flow Altanta, July, 1479–1490.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1994)
Progress in simulation of vortex-induced vibration AWES 4th National Workshop Sydney, October.
Blackburn HM & Henderson RD (1994)
Body-wake interaction during vortex-induced vibration Intnl Colloq Jets, Wakes & Shear Layers Melbourne, April.
Blackburn HM & Karniadakis GE (1993)
Two- and three-dimensional simulations of vortex-induced vibrations of a circular cylinder 3rd Intnl Offshore & Polar Engng Conf Singapore, June, 715–720. PDF
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1992)
Cross flow response prediction of slender circular-cylindrical structures: prediction models and recent experimental results BBAA2 Hobart, December.
Blackburn HM, Cantwell BJ & Mansour NM (1992)
Topological characteristics of incompressible channel flow APS DFD Tallahasee, Florida, November.
Blackburn, HM & Melbourne, WH (1991)
Lift on an oscillating cylinder in smooth and turbulent flow 8th Intnl Conf Wind Engng Ontario, June.
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1991)
Promotion of instability during lock-in AWES 4th National Workshop Polkolbin, February.
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1989)
Measurements of coefficients of lift and spanwise correlation for a circular cylinder oscillating in a turbulent flow 10AFMC Melbourne, December.
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1989)
Frequency and time domain cancellation of inertial signal from an accelerating force transducer Workshop Ind Fluid Dyn., Heat Trans. & Wind Engng Melbourne, December.
Manohar SM, Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1989)
Aerodynamic wind effects on a tall chimney 2nd Asia–Pacific Symp Wind Engng Beijing, June, 764–771.
Blackburn HM & Melbourne WH (1989)
Measurements of sectional lift forces on an oscillating cylinder 2nd Asia–Pacific Symp Wind Engng Beijing, June, 322–339.
Attwood R & Blackburn HM (1984)
Predicted moisture loss from soft brown coal during transport by overland conveyor Transportation Conference 84/9, IEAust Perth, 43–46.

Thesis

Lift on an oscillating cylinder in smooth and turbulent flows, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, 1992. Frontmatter, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C.

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Irrigation history

Pioneering Irrigation in Australia to 1920 is a book by my father, Gerard Blackburn. Please follow this link to view bibliographic and publication details.