Peter Daivis

Professor Peter Daivis

Professor

Details

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.

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
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.