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Dr. Evatt Hawkes

BSc (Hons) BEng (Hons) W. Aust., PhD Cantab.

Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator Contact Details Office Location:Room 464D, Electrical Engineering Building Email: evatt.hawkes@unsw.edu.au Phone: +61 2 9385 4602 Fax: +61 2 9385 7762 Research group website

Evatt Hawkes' CV (PDF 91 kb)

Teaching Areas

• Engineering design
• Sustainable and Renewable Energy Technology
• Biomass

Research Interests

• Combustion
• Biofuels
• Gasification
• Large eddy simulation
• Direct numerical simulation
• Multiscale computation
• Massively parallel computation
• Renewable and sustainable energy

Selected Publications

• Hawkes, E.R., Sankaran, R., Sutherland, J.C., Chen, J.H., (2007), Scalar mixing in Direct Numerical Simulation of temporally evolving plane jet flames with skeletal CO/H2 kinetics, Proc. Combust. Inst. 31: 1633-1640.
• Akiba, H., Ma, K.L., Chen, J.H., Hawkes, E.R., (2007), Visualizing Multivariate Volume Data from Turbulent Combustion Simulations, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering 9(2): 76-83.
• Sankaran, R., Hawkes, E.R., Chen, J.H., Lu, T., Law, C.K., (2007), Structure of a spatially developing lean methane-air Bunsen flame, Proc. Combust. Inst. 31: 1291-1298.
• Cook, D.J., Pitsch, H., Chen, J.H., Hawkes, E.R., (2007), Flamelet-based modeling of H2/Air Auto-ignition with thermal inhomogeneities, Proc. Combust. Inst. 31: 2903-2911.
• Chen, J.H., Hawkes, E.R., Sankaran, R., Im, H.G., (2006), Direct Numerical Simulation of ignition front propagation in a constant volume with temperature inhomogeneities, Part I: Fundamental analysis, Combust. Flame. 145, pp. 128-144.
• Hawkes, E.R., Sankaran, R., Pébay, P.P., Chen, J.H., (2006), Direct Numerical Simulation of ignition front propagation in a constant volume with temperature inhomogeneities, Part II: Parametric study and multi-zone model predictions, Combust. Flame. 145, pp. 145-159.
• Hawkes, E.R., Sankaran, R., Sutherland, J.C., Chen, J.H., (2005), Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent combustion -- fundamental insights towards predictive models, J. Physics: Conf. 16, pp. 65-79. 
• Hawkes, E.R., Chen, J.H., (2005), Comparison of Direct Numerical Simulation of lean premixed methane-air flames with strained laminar flame calculations, Combust. Flame. 144,pp. 112-125.
• Hawkes, E.R., Chen, J.H., (2005), Evaluation of models for flame stretch due to curvature in the thin reaction zones regime, Proc. Combust. Inst. 30,pp. 647-655.
• Sankaran, R., Im, H.G., Hawkes. E.R., and Chen, J.H., (2005), The effects of non-uniform temperature distribution on the ignition of a lean homogeneous hydrogen-air mixture, Proc. Combust. Inst. 30,pp. 875-882.
• Hawkes, E.R., Chen, J.H., (2004), Direct Numerical Simulation of hydrogen enriched lean premixed methane-air flames, Combust. Flame 138(3), pp. 242-258.
• Hawkes, E.R., Cant, R.S., (2001), Physical and numerical realizability requirements for flame surface density approaches to large eddy and Reynolds averaged simulation of premixed turbulent combustion, Combust. Theory and Modelling 5(4), pp. 699-720.
• Hawkes, E.R., Cant, R.S., (2001), Implications of a flame surface density approach to Large Eddy Simulation of premixed turbulent combustion, Combust. Flame 126(3), pp. 1617-1629.
• Hawkes, E.R., Cant, R.S., (2000), A flame surface density approach to Large Eddy Simulation of premixed turbulent combustion, Proc. Combust. Inst. 28, pp. 51-58.
• Hawkes, E.R., Keady, G., (1998), Inflation of a rubber disk, Chapter 4 in The Intercall Book, Trefry and Abbott (Editors), Analytica International, Perth, Western Australia, ISBN 0-646-35666-6.