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Dr Peter Hicks

Dr Peter Hicks
Dr Peter Hicks
Dr Peter Hicks

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
p.hicks@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 274815
Office Address
273 Fraser Noble Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Elphinstone Road
AB24 3UE

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School/Department
School of Engineering


Biography

Dr Peter Hicks joined the School of Engineering at the 51cg in 2013. Dr Hicks holds an MMath from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia. Prior to joining the 51cg, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, University College London and the University of East Anglia. He also spent time on industrial secondment work with AeroTex UK, investigating aircraft icing.

Dr Hicks' research interests are in fluid dynamics, mathematical modelling and industrial mathematics. His work is on the dynamics of violent fluid flows in relation to gas entrainment, phase change and splashing in droplet impacts, sloshing and ship slamming. He has also studied boundary layer receptivity and flows in porous media.

Dr Hicks is involved with the delivery of a range of undergraduate courses including in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, while he has previously held the roles Director of Postgraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering, Programme Coordinator for MSc Subsea Engineering, and the project coordinator for MSc and undergraduate projects.

Research

Research Areas

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Engineering

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Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

Course coordinator for EG3007 Engineering Analysis and Methods.

Course coordinator for EM3521 Engineering Thermodynamics.

Course contributor for EM4011 Fluid Dynamics.

Publications

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  • Violent droplet impacts with periodic rough substrates

    Hicks, P., Tod, A., Purvis, R.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1016, A40
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  • Violent droplet impacts with non-flat surfaces

    Hicks, P.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 939, A31
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  • A comparison of pre-impact gas cushioning and Wagner theory for liquid-solid impacts

    Ross, S., Hicks, P. D.
    Physics of Fluids, vol. 31, 042101
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  • Modelling mist flow for investigating liquid loading in gas wells

    Joseph, A., Hicks, P. D.
    Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 170, pp. 476-484
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  • Streamwise-travelling viscous waves in channel flows

    Ricco, P., Hicks, P. D.
    Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 23-49
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  • LNG-solid impacts with gas cushioning and phase change

    Hicks, P. D.
    Journal of fluids and structures, vol. 80, pp. 22-36
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  • Double Contact During Drop Impact on a Solid Under Reduced Air Pressure

    Li, E. Q., Langley, K. R., Tian, Y., Hicks, P. D., Thoroddsen, S. T.
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 119, no. 21, 214502
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  • Gas-cushioned droplet impacts with a thin layer of porous media

    Hicks, P. D., Purvis, R.
    Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 102, pp. 65-87
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  • Convex hull method for the determination of vapour-liquid equilibria (VLE) phase diagrams for binary and ternary systems

    Joseph, A., Sands, C. M., Hicks, P. D., Chandler, H. W.
    Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol. 431, pp. 34-47
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  • Laminar Streaks in Oscillating Boundary Layers

    Hicks, P. D., Ricco, P.
    Procedia IUTAM, vol. 14, pp. 264–273
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  • Laminar streak growth above a spanwise oscillating wall

    Hicks, P. D., Ricco, P.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 768, pp. 348-374
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  • Gas cushioning in liquid-solid impacts

    Ross, S., Hicks, P. D., Menshykov, O.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Saturation front evolution for liquid infiltration into a gas filled porous medium with counter-current flow

    Hicks, P. D., Cooker, M. J., Matthews, A. J.
    European Journal of Mechanics B, Fluids, vol. 43, pp. 202-215
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  • Liquid-solid impacts with compressible gas cushioning

    Hicks, P. D., Purvis, R.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 735, pp. 120-149
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  • Compressible laminar streaks with wall suction

    Ricco, P., Shah, D., Hicks, P. D.
    Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, no. 5, 054110
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  • Air trapping at impact of a rigid sphere onto a liquid

    Hicks, P., Ermanyuk, E., Gavrilov, N., Purvis, R.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 695, no. -, pp. 310-320
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  • Compressible air cushioning in liquid-solid impacts

    Hicks, P. D., Purvis, R.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Air cushioning in droplet impacts with liquid layers and other droplets

    Hicks, P. D., Purvis, R.
    Physics of Fluids, vol. 23, no. 6, 062104
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  • Skimming impacts and rebounds on shallow liquid layers

    Hicks, P. D., Smith, F. T.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, vol. 467, no. 2127, pp. 653-674
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  • The Building Blocks for a Hybrid ElectroThermal-ElectroMechanical Simulation Tool

    Hatch, C., Moser, R., Gent, R., Hicks, P. D.
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  • Triggering of a volcanic dome collapse by rainwater infiltration

    Hicks, P. D., Matthews, A. J., Cooker, M. J.
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 115, no. B9, B09212
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  • Air cushioning and bubble entrapment in three-dimensional droplet impacts

    Hicks, P. D., Purvis, R.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 649, no. -, pp. 135-163
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  • Thermal structure of a gas-permeable lava dome and timescale separation in its response to perturbation

    Hicks, P. D., Matthews, A. J., Cooker, M. J.
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 114, no. B7, B07201
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