Swansea University - hassan_oubay

Professor Oubay Hassan, MBE

Specialist Subjects: Mesh Generation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Electromagnetics, Parallel Processing

Awards

  • MBE in 1998 for the contribution to the THRUST SSC Supersonic car
  • The Catherine Richards prize for the best paper of 1999 in Mathematics Today entitled ‘Why didn’t the supersonic car fly’.

Present Research Funding

  • Integrated Programme of Research in Aeronautical Engineering, EPSRC   
  • Collaborative Aerodynamics Simulation Toolset 2, DTI  
  • Platform Grant: Advances in Mesh Generation, EPSRC
  • Adaptive Higher-Order Variational Methods for Aerodynamic Applications in Industry, EU

Invited Plenary and Keynote Addresses

  • 'Advances in Unstructured Mesh Technologies' Meshing Roundtable, New Orleans, 2000.
  • 'Adaptive finite volume method for unsteady compressible flows', 5th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vienna, 2002.
  • Recent Advances and State-of-the-Art in Computational Electromagnetics and Future Direction, US- Army Research Laboratory, June 2002, Washington, USA
  • Computing the Future IV, Cornell University, USA, 2004
  • 'Parallel Mesh generation and Parallel Adaptive remeshing for Unsteady Flow’', Second Workshop on Grid Generation for Numerical Computations, INRIA, 2007

Conference Organisation

  • 13th International Conference on Finite Elements for Flow Problems, April 2005

Publications

  • Academic journals: 63
  • Invited chapters in books: 26
  • Published lecture notes: 4
  • Invited conference articles: 31
  • Refereed conference articles: 103

Selected Journal Papers

  • P.D. Ledger, J. Peraire, K. Morgan, O. Hassan and N.P. Weatherill
    ‘Adaptive hp-adaptive finite element computations of the scattering width output of Maxwell’s equations’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 43:953-978, 2003.
  • P. D. Ledger, J. Peraire, K. Morgan, O. Hassan, and N. P. Weatherill
    ‘Parameterised electromagnetic scattering approximations for a range of incident wave angles’, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 193:3587-3605, 2004.
  • U. Tremel, F. Deister,  O. Hassan and N.P. Weatherill
    ‘Automatic Unstructured Surface Mesh Generation For Complex Configurations’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 45:341-364, 2004.
  • 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 Series A, 362:445-469, 2004.
  • M. El hachemi, O. Hassan, K. Morgan, and N. P. Weatherill
    ‘3D time domain computational electromagnetics using a H1 finite element method and hybrid unstructured meshes’. Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 13:55–66, 2004.
  • F. Deister, U. Tremel, O. Hassan and N.P. Weatherill
    ‘Fully automatic and fast mesh size specification for unstructured mesh generation’, Engineering with Computers, 20-237-248, 2004.
  • O. Hassan, K. Morgan, J. Jones, B. Larwood and N. P. Weatherill
    ‘Parallel 3D time domain electromagnetic Scattering Simulation on Unstructured Meshes’, CMES, Vol 5, 383-394,  2004
  • 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
  • U. Tremel, F. Deister, O. Hassan and N.P. Weatherill
    ‘Parallel generation of unstructured surface grids’, Engineering with Computers, DOI: 10.1007/s00366-005-0311-0, 2005 .
  • 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.
  • 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’, submitted to ASCE Journal of Aerospace, 19:271-280,2007
  • D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill,
    ‘Enhanced remeshing from STL files with applications to surface grid generation’, Communication in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 23:227-239, 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,  K. Sorensen,  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
  • O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill
    ‘Unstructured mesh methods for the solution of the unsteady compressible flow equations with moving boundary components’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A, 2007 (in press)
  • D.R. Davies, J.H. Davies, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and P.N. Nithiarasu
    ‘Investigation into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermo-chemical convection, Journal of Geophysical Research,  2007
General Information

DSc, PhD, CEng, FICE

School of Engineering
Swansea
TEL: +44 (0) 1792 295251
FAX: +44 (0) 1792 295676
E-MAIL: o.hassan@swansea.ac.uk

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