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Professor David Buttsworth

Name :	Professor David Buttsworth
Position :	Professor of Thermofluids Engineering
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Office :	Z451
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2614
Extension :	2614
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng(Hons), PhD Qld

Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/buttswod/
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Professional Memberships

Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Professional Affiliations

Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests

Reentry aerodynamics

Scramjets

Impulse wind tunnels

Instrumentation

Internal combustion engines

Computational simultion

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Sharifian, SA & Buttsworth, DR 2007, Evaluation of Glued-Diaphragm Fibre Optic Pressure Sensors in a Shock Tube, Shock Waves, vol. 16, pp. 189-197.

Yusaf, TF & Buttsworth, DR 2007, Characterisation of Mixing Rate One to High Power Ultrasound, Ultrasonics Sonchemisstry, vol. 14, pp. 266-274.

Goozee, RJ, Jacobs, PA & Buttsworth, DR 2006, Simulation of a Complete Reflected Shock Tunnel Showing a Vortex Mechanism forFlow Contamination, Shock Waves, vol. 15, pp. 165-176.

Most notable :

Buttsworth, DR, Stevens, R & Stone, CR 2005, Eroding Ribbon Thermocouples: Impulse Response and Transient Heat Flux Analysis, Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 16, pp. 1487–1494.

Buttsworth, DR & Jones, TV 2004, Transient Temperature Probe Measurements in a Mach 4 Nitrogen Jet, Experiments in Fluids, vol. 37, pp. 137-145.

Buttsworth, DR & Jones, TV 2003, Concentration Probe Measurements in a Mach 4 Nonreacting Hydrogen Jet, Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 125, pp. 628-636.

Buttsworth, DR & Jones, TV 2003, High Bandwidth Stagnation Temperature Measurements in a Mach 6 Gun Tunnel Flow, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, vol. 27, pp. 177-186.

Kilpatrick, JM, MacPherson, WN, Barton, JS, Jones, JDC, Buttsworth, DR, Jones, TV, Chana, KS & Anderson, SJ 2002, Measurement of Unsteady Gas Temperature with Optical Fibre Fabry-Perot Microsensors, Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 13, pp. 706-712.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

MEC2101 Thermodynamic
MEC3103 Engineering Problem Solving 3
MEC4103 Heat Transfer

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 15 years