Dr. Ruairi Nestor

Dr. Ruairi Nestor
PhD
Computational Scientist
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At ICHEC, Ruairi draws on his experience in the field of computational mechanics to provide support to the HPC activities of the engineering research community.

Ruairi obtained a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from NUI, Galway in 2005. In the 3rd year of his B.E., he worked in the Quality Control department of ABAQUS Inc. (now Simulia), RI, USA. He then undertook a Ph.D., also at NUI, Galway, under the supervision of Dr. Nathan Quinlan. For his Ph.D., Ruairi worked on the development of the Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM), a mesh-free method for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). As part of this work, several advances on the basic FVPM were developed, including the extension of the method to viscous flow, incompressible moving-boundary flows and fluid-structure interaction.

Selected publications and conference presentations:

R. Nestor and N. Quinlan, "Incompressible moving boundary flows with the finite volume particle method", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2010 (in press).
R. Nestor, M. Basa, M. Lastiwka and N. Quinlan, "Extension of the finite volume particle method to viscous flow", Journal of Computational Physics, 228:1733-1749, 2009.
R. Nestor and N. Quinlan, "Incompressible moving-boundary flows with the finite volume particle method", In: D. Le Touze (ed.), SPH European research interest community (SPHERIC) 4th international workshop, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France, 2009.
R. Nestor, M. Basa and N. Quinlan, "Moving boundary problems in the finite volume particle method", In: P. Marezuwski (Ed.), SPHERIC 3rd annual workshop, École Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2008.
R. Nestor and N. Quinlan, "The finite volume particle method for incompressible moving-boundary flows", In: Z. Yao and L. Yao (eds.), ICCES special symposium on meshless and other novel computational methods. Suzhou University, Suzhou, China, 2008.