Malcolm's Archive

Conference Papers

Pillai, R., Berry, J.D., Harvie, D.J.E. and Davidson, M.R. (2015). Electrophoretic effects on satellite droplet formation during electrocoalescence of microdrops. Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 7-9th December 2015.

Pillai, R., Berry, J.D., Harvie, D.J.E. and Davidson, M.R. (2014). Effect of interfacial tension and electric field on charge separation dynamics inside stable and unstable microdrops. 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 8-11 December 2014, Melbourne, Australia.

Davidson, M.R., Berry, J.D. and Harvie D.J.E. (2014). Numerical simulation of the deformation of charged drops of electrolyte. Advances in Fluid Mechanics X (Eds. C.A. Brebbia, S. Hernandez, M. Rahman), WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences, Vol. 82, WIT Press, pp. 203-214.

Hsu, W.L., Startsev, M.A., Inglis, D.W., Goldys, E.M., Davidson, M.R. and Harvie,D.J.E. (2013). DNA focusing in nanofluidic channels. 17th Int. Conf. on Miniarturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, 27-31 October, 2013, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 766-768. ISBN: 978-0-9798064-6-9

Berry, J. D., Davidson, M. R. and Harvie, D. J.E. (2012). Electroviscous flow through a microfluidic T-junction. Ninth International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries. CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 Dec 2012.

Mynard, J., Davidson, M. R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J. (2012). Modelling pressure losses at arterial junctions with application to junctions of the fetal ductus arteriosus. Proc. ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 20-23, Farjardo, Puerto Rico, USA.

Berry, J.D., Davidson, M.R. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2012). Deformation of liquid drops containing ions in the presence of an electric field. HEFAT 2012, 9th Int. Conf. on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 16-18 July 2012, Malta.

Mynard, J.P., Davidson, M.R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J.J. (2011). Robustness of the P-U and lnD-U loop wave speed estimation methods despite non-linearities and the diastolic pressure decay. 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, USA, August 30 - September 3, 2011.

Mynard, J.P., Davidson, M.R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J.J. (2011). The reservoir-wave paradigm introduces artefact into wave intensity analysis: A computer modelling and in vivo study. Artery Research, 5(4), 160 (Proc.of the Artery 11 Conf., Paris, France).

Sands, S.A., Edwards, B.A., Kelly, V.J., Skuza, E.M., Davidson, M.R., Wilkinson, M.H. and Berger, P.J. (2009). Arterial desaturation is accelerated during recurrent apneas via mixed-venous hypoxemia and elevated gas exchange. American Thoracic Society Int. Conf. Abstracts 2009, ATS 2009, San Diego, May 15 - 20, 2009.

Sands, S.A., Kelly, V.J., Edwards, B.A., Skuza, E.M., Davidson, M.R., Wilkinson, M.H. and Berger, P.J. (2009). Ventilation-perfusion mismatch and diffusion limitation hasten arterial desaturation during apnea: Theory. American Thoracic Society Int. Conf. Abstracts 2009, ATS 2009, San Diego, May 15 - 20, 2009.

Mynard, J.P., Davidson, M.R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J.J. (2009). A model of neonatal pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and RV-dependent coronary flow: Can collaterals protect the heart from ischemia? 1st Int. Conf. on Mathematical and Computational Biomedical Engineering - CMBE2009, June 29 - July 1, 2009, Swansea, UK (P. Nithiarasu & R. Lohner, eds.), p. 353-356.

Mynard, J.P., Davidson, M.R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J.J. (2009). A new one-dimensional computer model of the fetal circulation that produces physiologically accurate pressure and flow waveform morphologies.  Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 45(S1), A66 (paper A193).

Mynard, J.P., Hattam, A.T., Davidson, M.R., Penny, D.J. and Smolich, J.J. (2009). Computer modelling of fetal blood flow distribution in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Effect of pulmonary trunk/ductal enlargement and aortic coarctation. Proc. 5th World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery,  Cairns, Australia, 2009, 8312.

Higgins, D., Gray, N. and Davidson, M. (2009). Simulating agglomeration of molten particles in the flash smelting reaction shaft. Seventh International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 December 2009.

Biscombe, C.J.C., Davidson, M.R. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2009). Electro-osmotic effects in low Reynolds number flow through a planar microfluidic contraction-expansion.Seventh International Conference on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 December 2009.

Davidson, M.R., Bharti, R.P. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2009). Electroviscous effects in steady flow of a shear-thinning Carreau liquid through a microfluidic contraction.SEECCM 2009, 2nd South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, M. Papadrakakis, M. Kojic, V. Papadopoulos (eds.), Rhodes, Greece, 22-24 June 2009.

Bharti, R.P., Harvie, D.J.E. and Davidson, M.R. (2008). Fully developed flow of power-law fluid through a cylindrical microfluidic pipe: Pressure drop and electroviscous effects. Proc 7th Symposium on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing Processes, 2008 ASME Fluid Engineering Division Summer Conference, FEDSM2008, Aug 10-14, 2008, Jacksonville , Florida, USA.

Davidson, M.R., Bharti, R.P., Liovic, P. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2008). Electroviscous effects in low Reynolds number flow through a microfluidic contraction with rectangular cross-section. Proc. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 30, July 2008, ISSN 1307-6884, FMHT 2008, Int. Conf. on Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics, Paris, France 4-6 July 2008.

Davidson, M.R. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2008). Effect of surfactant on drop deformation through a microfluidic contraction: The Encapsulation Phenomenon. HEAT 2008, Fifth International Conference on Transport Phenomena In Multiphase Systems, June 30 - July 3, 2008, Bialystok, Poland.

Davidson, M.R. (2007). Prediction of deforming interfaces in two fluid flow. Invited presentation, Proc. IAWS-CFD 2007, IIT Roorkee, India, 12-14 April 2007.

Davidson, M.R., Harvie, D.J.E. and Liovic, P. (2007). Electrokinetic flow resistance in pressure-driven liquid flow through a slit-like microfluidic contraction. Proc. 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-7 Dec. 2007, pp 798-802.

Higgins, D., Davidson, M. and Gray, N. (2007). Model of isothermal agglomeration in the flash smelting reaction shaft. Proc. European Metallurgical Conference (EMC2007), June 11-14, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Davidson, M.R. and Harvie, D.J.E. (2007). Droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction with interfacial flow of insoluble surfactant. Int. Conf. on Multiphase Flow, ICMF 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 9-13, 2007.

Higgins, D.R. and Davidson, M.R. (2006). An isothermal model of agglomeration in a flash smelting reaction shaft. Proc. Fifth Int. Conf. on CFD in the Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 Dec. 2006, ISBN 0 643 09423 7 CD-ROM.

Leahy, M.J., Davidson, M.R. and Schwarz, M.P. (2006). A two-dimensional model for the heap bioleaching of chalcocite: Effect of inlet length. Proc. Fifth Int. Conf. on CFD in the Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 13-15 Dec. 2006, ISBN 0 643 09423 7 CD-ROM.

Leahy, M.J., Davidson, M.R. and Schwarz, M.P. (2006). A model for heap bioleaching of chalcocite with heat balance: effect of gas flow rate. Proc. 5th Mathmod, Vienna, February 2006.

Harvie, D.J.E., Davidson, M.R. and Cooper-White, J.J. (2006). Simulations of viscoelastic droplet deformation through a microfluidic contraction. Advances in Fluid Mechanics VI, WIT Transactions in Engineering Science, Vol. 52, pp. 69-78.

Lawson, N.J., Arruda, M.P. and Davidson, M.R. (2005). Control of an oscillatory rectangular cavity jet flow by secondary injection. Proc. Int. Conf. on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Oct 5-8, Toba-shi, Mie, Japan. pp. 561-566.

Davidson, M.R. and Stevens, G.W. (2005). Mass Transfer from deforming drops rising in a column. International Solvent Extraction Conference, ISEC 2005, Beijing, China, 19-23 September 2005, pp. 1684-1693.

Leahy, M.J., Davidson, M.R. and Schwarz, M.P. (2004). A column bioleaching model for Chalcocite – An investigation of oxygen limitation and bacterial inoculation on leaching. Proc. Bac-Min 2004 Conference, 8-10 November 2004, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, pp. 41-47.

Harvie, D.J.E., Davidson, M.R. and Cooper-White, J.J. (2004). Simulating the deformation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian drops through a micro-fluidic contraction.Proc. 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Sydney, 13-17 Dec., 2004.

Arruda, M.P., Lawson, N.J. and Davidson, M.R. (2004). Experimental and numerical modelling of a oscillatory jet thrust vectoring system. Proc. 12th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 July 2004, p. 12-15.

Davidson, M.R. and Cooper-White, J.J. (2003). Numerical prediction of shear-thinning drop formation. Proc. Third Int. Conf. on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 Dec. 2003, ISBN 0 643 09038 X.

Davidson, M.R. and Cooper-White, J.J. (2003). Deformation and break-uo of a drop in contraction flow. The 5th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conf.,  Busan, Korea, Oct 27-30, 2003.

Holbeach, J.W. and Davidson, M.R. (2003). Eulerian model for dissolution and dispersion of particles entering a liquid. Proc. Third Int. Conf. on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 Dec. 2003, ISBN 0 643 09038 X.

Leahy, M.J., Schwarz, M.P. and Davidson, M.R. (2003). An air sparging CFD model for heap bioleaching of copper-sulphide. Proc. Third Int. Conf. on CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 10-12 Dec. 2003, ISBN 0 643 09038 X.

Arruda, M.P., Lawson, N. and Davidson, M. (2003). Confined jet flow control: an investigation using 2D and 3D CFD and LDA. 7th Int. Symp. On Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization, Sorrento, Italy, August 25-28, 2003, ISBN 0-9533991-4-1, paper 146.

Holbeach, J.W. and Davidson, M.R. (2003). Dispersion and coalescence of two pulses of spherical solid particles dropped successively into an initially quiescent liquid. Computational Methods in Multiphase Flow II, WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences 42, pp. 85-94.

Whyte, D.S., Carnie, S. and Davidson, M. (2002). Numerical modeling of droplet deformation in a high-pressure homogeniser. Proc. FEDSM 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Whyte, D.S., Cooper-White, J.J., Davidson, M.R., Lundqvist, A. and Schaerringer, P. (2002). Deformation of a droplet passing through a contraction. Proc. FEDSM 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Whyte, D., Carnie, S. and Davidson, M. (2002). Numerical modelling of transitional flow in an industrial homogeniser. Proc. 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 23-27 September, 2001.

Holbeach, J., Davidson, M., Langberg, D. and Schwarz, M.P. (2002). Solids addition to metallurgical melts: A computational study. Proc. 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 23-27 September, 2001.

Chang, C., Davidson, M. and Lawson, N. (2002). CFD studies on bifurcated nozzle jet flow in a water model of a thin slab casting mould. Proc. 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 23-27 September, 2001.

Davidson, M.R. and Rudman, M.J. (2001). VOF calculation of mass-transfer in two-fluid flow with interfaces. Proc. ICMF-2001, 4th Int. Conf. On Multiphase Flow, May 27-June 1, 2001, New Orleans LA, USA, paper no. 110.

Davidson, M.R. and Rudman, M.J. (2001). A numerical method for mass-transfer in two-fluid flow with interfaces. International Symposium on Multiphase Flow and Transport Phenomena, International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, Nov 5-10 2000, Antalya, Turkey, (Ed. D.M Maron) Begell House, pp. 236-243.

Davidson, M.R. and Rudman, M. (2000). A VOF numerical technique for mass transfer in a two-fluid flow with interfaces. 7th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, July 3-6, 2000, Townsville, (eds. G. B. Brassington and J.C. Patterson), Chalkface Press, Western Australia, pp. 105-110.

Lawson, N.J. and Davidson M.R. (2000). An investigation of a low Strouhal number oscillatory jet submerged in a thin rectangular cavity. 10th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, 10-13 July, 2000, paper 11.2.

Davidson, M.R. and Lawson, N.J. (1999). Numerical prediction of submerged oscillating jet flow. 2nd International Conf. On CFD in the Minerals and Process Industries, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 Dec., 1999, ISBN 0-643-06559-8, pp. 223 - 227.

Davidson, M.R. (1999). Inviscid spreading of a drop impacting on a thin liquid film. 2nd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, Italy, 23-26 May, 1999, pp.1523-1527.

Smith, K.M., Davidson, M.R. and Lawson, N.J. (1999). Dispersion of streams of spheres falling vertically into a stationary liquid. 2nd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, Italy, 23-26 May, 1999, pp. 865-872.

Davidson, M.R. (1998). Prediction of crown formation following the impact of a drop on a thin liquid film. Proc 13th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 1 and II, December 1998, ( Eds. M.C. Thompson and K. Hourigan), ISBN 0-7326-2044-9, pp.431-434.

Lawson,N.J. and Davidson, M.R. (1998). The application of LDA to characterise cross-flow from an oscillating jet in a water model of a thin slab casting mould. Proc 13th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 1 and II, December 1998, (Eds. M.C. Thompson and K. Hourigan), ISBN 0-7326-2044-9, pp.667-670.

Lawson, N.J. and Davidson, M.R. (1998). Measurement of cross-flow characteristics from a transient water model of a thin slab casting mould. Int. Conf. On Optical Methods and Data Processing in Heat and Fluid Flow, 16-17 April 1998, IMechE Conference Transaction 1998-2, pp. 301 – 310.

Davidson, M.R. (1998). Deformation and spreading of an inviscid drop impinging on a solid surface. Advances in Fluid Mechanics II, Eds. M. Rahman, G. Comini, C.A. Brebbia, WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences 18, 295 – 305.

Smith, K.M. and Davidson, M.R. (1998). Dispersion of a solids stream falling vertically into horizontal channel flow. Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC-97, World Scientific, 647 – 654.

Davidson, M.R. (1998). Spreading of an inviscid drop impacting on a solid surface: boundary integral calculation. Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC-97, World Scientific, 177 - 184.

Carnie, S. and Davidson, M.R. (1997). Droplet formation inside a venturi liquid mixer. Proc. 1997 Mathematics in Industry Study Group, J. Hewett (Ed.), ISBN 0 86890 066 4, University of South Australia, 108-122.

Davidson, M.R. (1997). Turbulence modulation by mass exchange in a model of a flash furnace gas-particle jet. Proc Int. Conf. CFD in Mineral and Metal Processing and Power Generation, (Eds: M.P. Schwarz, M.R. Davidson, A.K. Easton) 3-4 July, 1997, Melb., ISBN 0 643 06306 4, pp. 229-236.

Hovenden, R.J. and Davidson, M.R. (1997). Turbulence modelling of a single phase flow in a spray dryer. Proc Int. Conf. CFD in Mineral and Metal Processing and Power Generation, (Eds: M.P. Schwarz, M.R. Davidson, A.K. Easton) 3-4 July, 1997, Melb., ISBN 0 643 06306 4, pp. 459-465.

Smith, K.M., Davidson, M.R. and Fletcher, D.F. (1997). Dispersion of a solids stream falling into a stationary liquid. Proc Int. Conf. CFD in Mineral and Metal Processing and Power Generation, (Eds: M.P. Schwarz, M.R. Davidson, A.K. Easton) 3-4 July, 1997, Melb., ISBN 0 643 06306 4, pp. 133-140.

Davidson, M.R., Gebert, B.M., Rudman, M.J. and Lawson, N.J. (1997). Oscillating flow in a model of a thin slab casting mould. Proc  Fourth CFX International Users Conf., Chicago, Illinois, Oct 6-10, 1997, pp. 232-241.

Davidson,M.R. (1996). Turbulence modulation by particles in models of flash furnace jets. Proc. 6th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, E. Leonardi, C.V. Madhusudana (Eds.), ISBN 1-56700-099-1, Begell House Inc, 479 –486.

Davidson, M.R. and S. Carnie (1996). Efficient homogenisation of photographic dispersions. Proc. 1996 Mathematics in Industry Study Group, (Ed: J. Hewett), ISBN 0 646 28979 9, University of South Australia, 70-78.

Davidson, M.R. and Kisler, J.P. (1996). Predicting the air core diameter in hydrocyclones. Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC95, (Eds: R.L. May and A.K. Easton), World Scientific, pp. 231-238.

Davidson, M.R. (1994). Calculation of liquid-solid flow in a hydrocyclone incorporating particle-particle interactions. Computational Techniques and Applications : CTAC-93, (Eds. D. Stewart, H. Gardner, D. Singleton), World Scientific, pp. 166-174.

Davidson, M.R. (1994). A numerical model of liquid-solid flow in a hydrocyclone with high solids fraction. Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows 1994, ASME Fluids Eng. Div., FED-Vol. 185, 29-38.

Davidson,M.R. (1993). Towards a model of flow in hydrocyclones with high solids loading. Proc. Fifth Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December, 1993, Brisbane.

Davidson, M.R. (1992). Numerical prediction of flow and particle separation in a gas cyclone with and without a vortex finder. Computational Techniques and Applications CTAC-91 (Eds: B.J. Noye, B.R. Benjamin, and L.H. Colgan), pp. 163-170.

Musgrove, A.R. deL., Hooper, J.D., Maher, K.H. and Davidson, M.R. (1991). LDV measurements of the turbulence field in a gas-agitated water bath. Proc. Second World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Dubrovnik, June 23-28, 1991.

Townley, L.R., Nield, S.P. and Davidson, M.R. (1988). Dimensionless simulations of two-dimensional flow in the vicinity of shallow water table lakes. IAHR Int. Symp. on Interaction between Groundwater and Surface Water (Eds. P. Dahlblom and G. Lindh), May 30 - June 3, 1988, Ystad, Sweden, pp. 321-328.

Davidson, M.R. (1988). Numerical modelling of flow and particle transport in a hydrocyclone operating without an air core. Computational Techniques and Applications, CTAC87, (Eds. J. Noye and C. Fletcher), North Holland, 155-165.

Kaye, S., Schroter, R.C. and Davidson, M.R. (1987). Uptake of soluble gases by the bronchial wall. Physiological Fluid Dynamics II, (Eds. L.S. Srinath and M. Singh), Tata McGraw-Hill, 40-45. (Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Physiological Fluid Dynamics, Indian Inst. Tech., Madras, Aug. 10-12, 1987).

Davidson, M.R. (1986). Infiltration in a soil column containing a central hole. Computational Techniques and Applications, CTAC85, (Eds. J. Noye and R. May), North Holland, 599-609.

Davidson, M.R. (1984). On the motion of the interface between two immiscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw model of a two-dimensional porous medium. Convective Flows in Porous Media, (Eds. R.A. Wooding and I. White), DSIR Sci. Infor. Publ. Centre, 87-94.

Davidson, M.R. (1984). The motion of a wetting front for a Green-Ampt model of infiltration into a cracked soil. Proc. Centre for Math. Analysis (Eds. S.A. Gustafson and R.S. Womersley), Australian National University, Vol. 6, 65-74.

Davidson, M.R. (1984). The growth of fingers between two immiscible fluids in a two-dimensional porous medium or Hele-Shaw cell. Computational Techniques and Applications, CTAC83, (Eds. J. Noye and C. Fletcher), North Holland, 317-326.

Davidson, M.R. (1981). Dispersion in a model of a layered aquifer-aquiclude system: a simple numerical treatment. Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, (Ed. J. Noye), North Holland, 471-477.

Airey, P.L., Davidson, M.R. and Roman, D. (1981). Solute transport and dispersion in very old groundwater. Potential application of chlorine-36. In: Workshop on Isotope Hydrology Applied to the Evaluation of Deep Buried Repositories for Radioactive Wastes (ed. S. N. Davis), pp. 68-86, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1982.