CMGroup

Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematics Research Group

This Research Group is one of several based at the University of Western Australia, School of Maths .
(The Group exists as a group of people, but the PROPOSAL from the 1990s that it might have some formal status in the School of Maths and Stats seems not yet to have been acted upon. Following the formation of the ANZIAM (WA branch) the Group has had no real need to have a formal status.)
From 2003, many of its members participate in the Engineering Faculty centered "Computational Mechanics" discipline group.
From 2004, the Research Group was strengthenned by a new Professorial appointment, and with the new Prof working in Continuum Mech, there is no longer the need for the CMIMR Group to defend the area against other areas of Applied Maths.

The leader of this Research Group is Dr Nev Fowkes:
Email: fowkes@maths.uwa.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 9380 3355
Fax: +61 8 9380 1028

For enquiries on this page and others linked to it, contact the deputy leader, email: keady@maths.uwa.edu.au

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ANZIAM-WA pages, started 2002.
Some of the functions of CMIMG have now been taken over by the ANZIAM-WA branch. Nev Fowkes is currently Secretary of ANZIAM-WA, and Grant Keady maintains the ANZIAM-WA web pages and the CMIMG pages.
a list of UWA members of the CMIMG
documents related to founding the CMIMG
some joint papers, etc. involving two or more members of the CMIMG

Focus of the CMIMG's research

Subjects like fluid mechanics, elasticity and so on have long been recognised as "traditional" or "classical" areas of (applied) maths. The results of mathematical calculations in these areas are important to engineers and so on, esp. in areas like Civil, Mechanical, Materials, Environmental and Resource areas of engineering. The methods of performing the calculations, and mathematical questions - proving that the problem is well-set, that the results are indeed correct - are appropriate endeavours for mathematicians.

Activities

The CMIMG will be a focus of joint activity - joint research, grant applications, seminars, visitors ... and will provide an entry point, for people outside the Dept, in industry or in Engineering Schools etc., to the expertise in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in Continuum Mechanics applications.

The CMIMG will be a focus for, and an agent facilitating,

collaboration across to other departments at UWA, esp. in engineering, and related areas like the Centre for Groundwater Studies (CSIRO and University based, with nodes in both Adelaide and Perth),
collaboration/association with similar groups in other Australian universities, esp. with groups associated with Hocking/Farrow and others at Murdoch and others at Curtin.

This page created by keady@maths.uwa.edu.au. Last updates, Jan 02 (acknowledging formation of ANZIAM-WA)
Jan 05 (acknowledging Andrew Bassom's new Prof appointment).