Professor Peter Daivis
Professor
Details
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College: School of Science
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Department: School of Science
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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peter.daivis@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8454-3341
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
Supervisor projects
- Phase field simulations of shear banding and stick-slip flow in lubricants under extreme conditions
- 9 Feb 2023
- Computational Biophysics and Pharmacology of Ion Channels
- 8 Oct 2021
- Building Phase Field Simulations to Investigate Cryoprotectant Properties
- 12 Dec 2018
- Exploring the Free Energy Landscape of Ion Channel-Modulator Binding with Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- 3 Apr 2017
- Investigation of Crystallisation Inhibitors through Molecular Dynamics Simulation Submitted and completed via Equella
- 29 Aug 2014
- Planar Poiseuille Flow of Highly Confined Polymer Solutions
- 3 Jan 2014
Teaching interests
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
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)
Supervisor interests
Polymer physics, computer simulation equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, statistical mechanics of polymers and fluids soft condensed matter, molecular rheology.
• 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
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)
Supervisor interests
Polymer physics, computer simulation equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics, statistical mechanics of polymers and fluids soft condensed matter, molecular rheology.
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
• Computer simulation – equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics
• Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of complex fluids – soft condensed matter
• Molecular rheology
