Kamal Djidjeli

Biography

Dr Kamal Djidjeli is Lecturer within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.   Dr Kamal Djidjeli obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Computational methods from University of Brunel UK in 1988 & 1991. He joined the Faculty of Engineering, University of Southampton in 1991, as Research Fellow and become academic staff and Exams Officer in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Southampton. Since 1995, he has taught courses on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Design Search & Optimisation, Powered Lift for helicopters, Applications of CFD, Advanced Numerical Methods, Computational Modelling, High Performance Computing, Computing to students in the Faculty of Engineering at the undergraduate and MSc levels. He has over 20 years research experience in the area of computational methods and engineering. He has published over 50 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and has supervised a number of MSc & PhD students (~25). He is a referee for a number of journals (Computers & Fluids, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Aircraft-AIAA, etc) and has undertaken a range of research projects in academia and industry, such as, UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative), consultancy work with Larsen & Toubro Ltd company, Lloyd’s Register London collaborative project, Numeca International collaborative project, etc. He serves on the editorial board member of the ISRN Applied Mathematics Journal, and he is member of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), and the Institute of Mathematics & its applications, UK.

Research Interest

Dr Kamal Djidjeli is currently a lecturer in Computational Methods in the Computational Engineering & Design Group, Faculty of Engineering & the Environment at the University of Southampton; and Admission Tutor of Maritime Engineering Science MSc Programme. His current research is on particle meshless methods for fluid flow & fluid structure interaction problems; computational fluid dynamics for aerodynamics/hydrodynamics, energy harvesting; vibration isolation, nanostructures, and bioengineering modelling and simulation. His other contributions include numerical methods for fluid-structure modelling, nonlinear dynamical systems & chaos, and water waves.