Dr Murray Rudman manages the thermal and fluid dynamics research program.

Dr Murray Rudman: modelling fluids in the real world

Dr Murray Rudman is a senior computational scientist who models fluids in the real world.

• 6 December 2007 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Dr Murray Rudman took up the role as Senior Computational Scientist in the Computational Modelling group in CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences in August 2007.

This role is varied and includes assisting the group maintain their high quality and level of scientific output, mentoring and supervision of staff and students, software development as well as research project work.

His research draws his more than 15 years' of expertise in computational fluid dynamics and the physics of fluid motion. 

His two major current projects are:

• smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) modelling of the Laval nozzle used in the Cold Spray process
• development of opportunities in the area of offshore hydrodynamics. 

His recent work includes simulating the impact of rogue waves on offshore structures.

Background

Dr Rudman joined CSIRO Division of Building, Construction and Engineering as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 1990.

He did this after completing his Doctorate in the area of multi-phase flow modelling of geophysical flows using computational fluid dynamics. 

He was appointed as a CSIRO Research Scientist in 1992.

In 2007, Dr Rudman transferred from CSIRO's Materials Science and Engineering Division to CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences where he is a senior scientist in the Computational Modelling group.

He has worked across a wide range of areas in numerical method and algorithm development, application of computational fluid dynamics and fluid mechanics to problems of industrial importance. 

Prior to his doctoral studies he worked as a:

• research officer in the Australian Bureau of Statistics
• geophysicist for the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources.

Academic qualifications

Dr Rudman has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science from the Australian National University in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory 1981
• Bachelor of Science Honours from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1986
• Doctor of Philosophy, also from Monash, in 1991.

Achievements

In addition to patents, Dr Rudman's achievements include being awarded a:

• CSIRO Medal for Business Excellence, for Improving Thickener Technology in 2004 
• CSIRO Medal for Magmetal development of AMC pilot Magnesium smelter in 2000 
• British Government Visiting Research Fellowship (EPSRF Ref: GR/M95233) in 2000 
• CSIRO Medal for Improving Thickener Technology in 1999.

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