Jeffrey Davis
Assistant Professor,
Engineering
MacEwan University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Davis began his career by obtaining a degree in civil and environmental engineering, specializing in fluid mechanics and the dispersion of pollutants in rivers, from the University of Alberta. From there, he joined the turbulence research group at the University of Toronto completing his M.A.Sc. research on turbulent flow modeling in combustion engines. Interested in modeling and numerical simulations, Dr. Davis went on to complete a doctorate in the Institute of Energy Technology at ETH Zurich specializing in multiphase flows and thermal hydraulics in nuclear reactors. He then went on to work as a Post Doctoral Fellow on the 2008 Phoenix Mars Mission. There, his research focused on modeling heat and mass transfer around the Mars Lander through numerical simulations on parallel computer clusters.
Research Interest
Problem solving Scholarship of teaching and learning Pedagogical software Neural networks Machine learning Data structures Sustainable development Pattern recognition Computational fluid dynamics
Publications
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J. A. Davis and C. F. Lange. (2012). Simulations of three dimensional buoyant laminar plumes in a Martian environment. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, 62, 843-860.
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J. A. Davis and S. Lorimer. (2014). A Cognitive Model for Automatic Student Assessment: Classification of Errors in Engineering Dynamics. Proceedings of the 121st annual ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, USA
