STAFF PROFILE
Professor Peter Daivis
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Phone:
+61399253393
Email:
peter.daivis@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research interests
- Polymer and Colloid physics
- Computer simulation – equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics
- Statistical mechanics and Thermodynamics of complex fluids – soft condensed matter
- Molecular rheology
Postgraduate research projects supervised as senior supervisor
- Molecular Simulation of Polymer Rheology (Senior supervisor, PhD)
- Temperature and energy distributions in shearing binary systems (Senior supervisor, PhD)
- Characteristic lengths of polymer solutions (Senior supervisor, M App Sc)
- Theoretical analysis of the relaxation towards equilibrium of metastable and unstable states of model fluids (Senior supervisor, PhD)
- Microscopic simulation of fluid flow in thin channels (Senior supervisor, PhD)
- Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of Phase Transitions (Senior Supervisor, PhD)
- The effects of density inhomogeneity and non-locality on nanofluidic flow (Senior Supervisor, PhD)
- Investigation of crystallization inhibitors through molecular dynamics simulation (Senior Supervisor, PhD)
Industry, professional and community involvement
Past Council Member, President and Treasurer, The Australian Society of Rheology
Teaching and professional responsibilities:
- Program Manager, BSc(Hons) program code BH012 (1-year hons program for students who have completed a 3 year Bachelor’s degree)
- Program Manager, BSc(Dean’s Scholar)(Hons) program code BH101 (4-year program with embedded hons year for highly capable, research-oriented students)
- Course coordinator and lecturer
- Postgraduate student supervisor and active researcher
- PhD, (Physics), Massey University (New Zealand), 1990
- Master of Applied Science, RMIT, 1984
- Graduate Diploma of Applied Colloid Science, Swinburne Institute of Technology, 1982
- Bachelor of Applied Science, RMIT, 1980
- Shireen, Z.,Hajizadeh, E.,Daivis, P.,Brandl, C. (2023). Linear viscoelastic shear and bulk relaxation moduli in poly(tetramethylene oxide) (PTMO) using united-atom molecular dynamics In: Computational Materials Science, 216, 1 - 10
- Kunhunni, A.,Kannam, S.,Sathian, S.,Todd, B.,Daivis, P. (2022). Hydrodynamic slip of alkali chloride solutions in uncharged graphene nanochannels In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 156, 1 - 10
- Maffioli, L.,Smith, E.,Ewen, J.,Daivis, P.,Dini, D.,Todd, B. (2022). Slip and stress from low shear rate nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: The transient-time correlation function technique In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 156, 1 - 10
- Sam, A.,Hartkamp, R.,Kannam, S.,Babu, J.,Sathian, S.,Daivis, P.,Todd, B. (2021). Fast transport of water in carbon nanotubes: a review of current accomplishments and challenges In: Molecular Simulation, 47, 905 - 924
- Daivis, P.,Hansen, J.,Todd, B. (2021). Electropumping of nanofluidic water by linear and angular momentum coupling: theoretical foundations and molecular dynamics simulations In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23, 25003 - 25018
- Ostler, D.,Kannam, S.,Frascoli, F.,Daivis, P.,Todd, B. (2020). Efficiency of electropumping in nanochannels In: Nano Letters, 20, 3396 - 3402
- Menzel, A.,Daivis, P.,Todd, B. (2020). Equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods to compute the first normal stress coefficient of a model polymer solution In: Physical Review Fluids, 5, 1 - 16
- Smith, E.,Daivis, P.,Todd, B. (2019). Measuring heat flux beyond Fourier's law In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 150, 1 - 16
- Ostler, D.,Kannam, S.,Frascoli, F.,Daivis, P.,Todd, B. (2019). Inducing a Net Positive Flow of Water in Functionalized Concentric Carbon Nanotubes Using Rotating Electric Fields In: Langmuir, 35, 14742 - 14749
- Daivis, P. (2019). Energy flow in thermostatted non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations In: Molecular Physics, 117, 3812 - 3818
- Molecular design of complex lubricants to reduce friction (externally led by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other university 2020 from (2020 to 2022)
- Rational design of new synthetic antifreeze molecules for cryopreservation. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2019 from (2019 to 2023)
- Accurate transport theory for nanofluidic separation science. Funded by: ARC Discovery 2012 from (2012 to 2017)
- Frontiers of Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics. Funded by: RMIT Research Leave Awards from (2010 to 2010)
- Thermostats and thermodynamic temperature in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. Funded by: AAS (Australian Academy of Science) Scientific Visits to Europe from (2010 to 2012)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
Polymer physics, computer simulation equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, statistical mechanics of polymers and fluids soft condensed matter, molecular rheology.