Dr Marcus Campbell Bannerman
Senior Lecturer
- About
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Internal Memberships
Programme leader for Chemical Engineering.
EG4012/EG4013 Coordinator for Chemical Engineering undergraduate thesis/individual projects. - Research
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Research Overview
I apply a wide range of computational techniques to solve engineering problems. This sounds very nebulous but I have worked on a broad range of topics ranging from computational thermodynamics, particle dynamics simulation, and pilot-scale production trials of novel cement formulations to the virtual reality rendering of volumetric datasets and GPU programming. At the heart of it all is the development of engineering simulation software.
Current Research
I am currently working on the production-process optimisation, simulation, and computational thermodynamics of a novel low-carbon cement formulations and traditional Portland cement. I have developed a thermodynamic database for the high-temperature simulation of cement clinkerisation, which is accessible here at http://simcem.com.
A large part of my research is also centred on simulation of molecular and granular particulate systems. As a part of that research I developed a unique and cutting-edge event-driven particle-dynamics package called DynamO. DynamO is a general tool that has already found application in a wide range of systems such as granular dampers, nano-colloidal fluids, and protein folding/helix formation. A major focus of my current research centres around the development a new class of particle models for solids processing systems. Coupled with novel algorithms, it is now possible to simulate process scale equipment with millions of particles in near real-time. An example application is in the full-scale modelling of the solids/granular/heat/reaction processes in cement kilns. For more information, please visit http://dynamomd.org.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
EX3030 Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
EM40JN Heat and Momentum Transfer
EX3502 Separation Processes 1 (evaporation, distillation, and absorption)
EG5099 Upstream Oil & Gas Engineering - Publications
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Collective Granular Dynamics in a Shaken Container at Low Gravity Conditions
American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, vol. 1542, pp. 811-814Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812055
DynamO: a free O(N) general event-driven molecular dynamics simulator
Journal of Computational Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 15, pp. 3329-3338Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.21915
Movers and shakers: Granular damping in microgravity
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 84, no. 1, 011301Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011301
Exact on-event expressions for discrete potential systems
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 133, no. 12Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3486567
Thermodynamic pressures for hard spheres and closed-virial equation-of-state
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 132, no. 8, 084507Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3328823
Single-speed molecular dynamics of hard parallel squares and cubes
Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 136, no. 4, pp. 715-732Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-009-9795-0
Structure and stability of helices in square-well homopolymers
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 80, no. 2, 021801Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.021801
Transport properties of highly asymmetric hard-sphere mixtures
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 130, no. 16, 164507Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3120488
Collision statistics in sheared inelastic hard spheres
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 79, no. 4, 041308Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.041308
An on-line Pre-Induction Pack for Engineers (PIPE) in chemical engineering
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] http://www.aidic.it/cet/