Mathematics Staff - Professor Geoffrey Brooks
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Location:
EN701d Level 7
Engineering Building
Hawthorn Campus
Phone: +61-3-9214 5672
Fax: +61-3-9214 8264
Email: gbrooks@swin.edu.au |
Geoffrey Brooks
Associate Dean (Research)
Head of Mathematics
B.Eng.(RMIT), B.A (Swinburne), PhD (Melbourne)
Major Research Interests
- Modelling of high temperature chemical reactions
- Computational thermodynamics
- Application of principal component analysis to process control
- Fundamentals of steel, aluminium and magnesium production
- Physical chemistry of nanoscale systems
Current Students
- Mrs Winny Wulandari (PhD Student) - Modelling of Thermal Magnesium Processes
- Ms Neslihan Dogan (PhD Student) - Modelling of Oxygen Steelmaking
- Dr Bernard Xu (PhD Student) - Analysis of Bubble Flow in Al Cells using Multivariate Statistical Techniques
- Mr Phillips Senopati (Final Year Project Student) - Design of Bubbling Unit for CSIRO Aluminium Model
- Mr Andrew Edwards (Final Year Project Student) - Experimental and Mathematical Modelling of Particle Separation in a Vibrational Classifier
- Mr Pa Hmun (PhD Student) - Modelling of Marangoni Effect in Steelmaking Reactions
- Behrooz Fateh (PhD Student) - Kinetics of Liquid Aluminium Oxidation
Teaching Area
Selected Refereed Journal Publications
- Brooks, G.A., Trang, S., Witt, P., Khan, M.H. and Nagle, M, "The Carbothermic Route to Magnesium", JOM, Vol. 58, No. 5, 2006, p. 51-55.
- Brooks, G.A., Pan, Y., Subagyo and Coley, K.S., "Modeling of Trajectory and Residence Time of Metal Droplets in Slag-Metal-Gas Emulsions in Oxygen Steelmaking", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 36B, August 2005, p. 525-535.
- Li, J., Brooks, G.A. and Provatas, N., "Kinetics of Scrap Melting in a Liquid Steel, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 36B(2), 2005, p. 293-302.
- Rhamdhani, M.A., Brooks, G.A. and Coley, K.S., "Kinetics of Metal/Slag Reactions during Spontaneous Emulsification", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 36B(2), April 2005,p. 203-227.
- Subagyo, Brooks, G.A., Coley, K. and Irons, G. "Generation of droplets in slag-metal emulsions through top gas blowing", ISIJ International, Vol. 43, No. 7 2003, p. 983-1104.
- Subagyo and Brooks, G.A., "Online monitoring of dynamics slag behaviour in ladle metallurgy", ISIJ International, Vol. 43, No. 8, 2003, p. 1286-1288.
- Subagyo, Brooks, G and Irons, G., "Spout Area Correlation in Ladle Metallurgy", ISIJ International, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2003, p. 262-263.
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