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Professor Kenneth Morgan

WIMCS Research Chair in Engineering

Specialist Subjects: Computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics, mesh generation and adaptivity, wave propagation.

Awards & Fellowships

 

  • Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, 1997
  • Ludwig Prandtl Medal, European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, for outstanding and sustained contributions in computational fluid dynamics, 2008
  • Computational Mechanics Award, International Association of Computational Mechanics, for outstanding contributions in the area of computational fluid dynamics, 1998
  • NASA Group Achievement Award for work on the development of a numerical procedure to aid the design of national aerospace plane engine cowl leading edges subjected to shock/shock interference heating, 1989
  • Fellow, International Association of Computational Mechanics, 2004
  • Honorary Fellow, International Association for Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2003
  • Catherine Richards Prize for the best paper in Mathematics Today, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, 1999

 

 

Employment History

 

  • Professor of Computational Engineering, Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, School of Engineering, Swansea University, 2008-
  • Head, Civil & Computational Engineering Centre, University of Wales Swansea, 2003-2008
  • Professor, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 2002-2008
  • Dean of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1997-2000 Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1991-1996
  • Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1991-2002
  • Zaharoff Professor of Aviation, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, 1989-1991
  • Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1988-1989
  • Reader, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1986-1988
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1984-1986
  • Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1975-1984
  • Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, 1972-1975
  • Scientific Officer, Mathematical Physics Division, UKAEA, AWRE, Aldermaston, 1969-1972

 

 

Visiting Research Appointments

 

  • Visiting Scientist, Aerothermal Loads Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, 1993-95
  • Research Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1988-1992
  • Research Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1986-87
  • Visiting Research Scientist, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Centre, 1985
  • Visiting Scientist, Aerothermal Loads Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, 1982-84
  • Visiting Scientist, Applied Mechanics Division, Joint Research Centre of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy, 1980 and 1981.

 

 

Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals

 

  • The Aeronautical Journal (Associate Editor), Royal Aeronautical Society
  • Computational Mechanics, Springer
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley
  • International Journal for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
  • Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley
  • Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Springer
  • Applied Mathematical Modelling, Elsevier
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Emerald
  • International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, GBS
  • International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Taylor & Francis
  • Open Aerospace Engineering Journal, Bentham Science
  • Open Aerospace Engineering Reviews, Bentham Science
  • Open Aerospace Engineering Letters, Bentham Science

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

  • 8th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, Stellenbosch University, 2006.
  • AFFRST Seminar on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing with PDEs and Their Challenging Applications, Espoo, Finland, 2005.
  • 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Jyvaskyla, 2004.
  • 5th Zienkiewicz Lecture, Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications, Brunel University, 2003.
  • 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, Liege, 2002.
  • US Army Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics, Washington, 2002.
  • LMS/EPSRC Wave Propagation Symposium, Durham, 2002.
  • Symposium on Innovative Tools for Scientific Computation in Aeronautical Engineering, Paris, 2001.
  • 2nd International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Leuven, Belgium, 2000.
  • Scientific Lecture, Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, August 2000.

 

 

Conference Organisation

 

  • Co-Chairman, 13th Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems, Swansea, 2005.
  • Co-Chairman, 6th ECCOMAS European Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Swansea, 2001.
  • Vice-Chairman, ECCOMAS2000 European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Barcelona, 2000.

 

 

Committee

 

  • General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 1993-
  • Management Board of the European Committee for Computational Methods in the Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), 1991-

 

 

Recent Research Grants

 

  • Platform Grant: Advances in mesh generation, 2006-2011(EPSRC)
  • ADIGMA: High order methods for computational aerodynamics, 2006-2009 (EC)
  • FLAVIIR: Integrated programme of research in aeronautical engineering, 2004-2007(EPSRC/BAE SYSTEMS)
  • Plane wave elements for the solution of Maxwell�s equations, 2002-2005(EPSRC)   

 

 

Recent Publications

 

  • O. C. Zienkiewicz and K. Morgan, Finite Elements and Approximation, Dover, Mineola, New York, 328pp, 2006.
  • A. J. Gil, Z. Zhang, O. Hassan and K. Morgan, A parallel multigrid DES algorithm for the solution of 3D unsteady incompressible flows on unstructured grids, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 19:271�280, 2007.
  • P. D. Ledger, K. Morgan and O. Hassan, Electromagnetic scattering simulations using an H(curl) conforming hp finite element method in three dimensions, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 53:1267�1296, 2007.
  • O. Hassan, D. Wang, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, Enhanced remeshing from STL files with applications to surface grid generation, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 23:227�239, 2007.
  • O. Hassan, K. A. Sørensen, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, A method for time accurate turbulent compressible fluid flow simulation with moving boundary components employing local remeshing, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 53:1243�1266, 2007.
  • D. R. Davies, J. H. Davies, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and P. N. Nithiarasu, Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermo-chemical convection, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 8, Q05010, doi:10.1029/2006GC001470, 2007.
  • I. Sazonov, D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, A stitching method of unstructured mesh generation for co-volume solution techniques, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195:1826�1845, 2006.
  • D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, EQSM: an efficient high quality surface grid generation method based on remeshing, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194:5621�5633, 2006.
  • D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, Efficient surface reconstruction from contours based on two�dimensional Delaunay triangulation, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 65:734�751, 2006.
  • P. D. Ledger, K. Morgan and O. Hassan, Frequency and time domain electromagnetic scattering simulations employing higher order edge elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194:105�125, 2005.
  • M. El hachemi, O. Hassan, K. Morgan, D. Rowse and N. P. Weatherill, A low-order unstructured mesh approach for computational electromagnetics in the time domain, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 362:445�469, 2004.
  • O. Hassan, K. Morgan, J. Jones, B. Larwood and N. P. Weatherill, Parallel 3D time domain electromagnetic scattering simulation on unstructured meshes, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 5:383�394, 2004.

BSc, PhD, DSc (Eng), FIMA, CMath, FICE, CEng, FREng

 

Engineering

Swansea University

Tel: 01792 295515

Fax: 01792 295676

Email: k.morgan@swansea.ac.uk