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Dr Steven CARNIE
Position:	Senior Lecturer
Email:	S.Carnie@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room:	G18
Ext. Number:	45213
Webpage:	www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~carniesl
Research Group:	- Applied Mathematics
Interests:	- Colloidal interactions - Electrokinetics - Flow in porous media - Hydrodynamics of drops - Thin film drainage
Recent Publications: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed Dynamic Forces between a Moving Particle and a Deformable Drop(2008) more Equilibrium and dynamic forces involving deformable interfaces at nanometer separations(2008) more Transient responses of a wetting film to mechanical and electrical perturbations(2008) more Homogenization of the ionic transport equations in periodic porous media(2006) more Dynamics of interactions involving deformable drops: Hydrodynamic dimpling under attractive and repulsive electrical double layer interactions(2006) more
My interests lie in the modelling of systems arising in chemistry or chemical engineering, typically at the micron scale or smaller (nano-scale). Over recent years, I have drifted from statistical mechanical treatments of the electrical double layer and Monte Carlo simulations of polyelectrolytes towards continuum modelling of phenomena such as the electroacoustics of non-dilute suspensions, electrochromatography, droplet breakup in the production of photographic dispersions, the performance of electrochemical supercapacitors, the formation of gold nanorods and drop-drop interactions in the Atomic Force Microscope.

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

Khurram KAMRAN	"Modelling the bouncing and film drainage of free drops/bubbles"
Ofer MANOR	"Newtonian and non-Newtonian drop-drop interactions under the influence of temperature and surface active materials gradient"

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Jason LOOKER	"The electrokinetics of porous colloidal particles"
Rogerio MANICA - NO	"Modelling hydrodynamic interactions between deformable droplets"

Recent Honours Students:

Matthew LEPPARD
Simon VILLANI	"The electrokinetic suppression of slip at a mercury/water interface"

Recent Grant History:

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2007	The University of Melbourne	MRGS	Non-equilibrium forces on the nano-scale
2005 - 2007	ARC	Special Research Centre	SRC Particulate Fluids Processing Centre

Responsibilities:

Chair of UGS

Faculty Academic Programs

General Advisor (all years)

Melbourne Model Transition Coordinators

University Handbook Entries

Committees:

Management Committee

UGS Committee (Chair)

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