Professor
Roger I. Tanner
Peter Nicol Russell Professor of Mechanical Engineering, FASME, FRS, FAA, FTSE, FIEAust, MAICheE
Contact Details
Address: School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, J07, The University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 AUSTRALIA
Room: S332a, Phone: +61 2 9351 7153, Fax: +61 2 9351 3760, Email : rit DOMAIN aeromech.usyd.edu.au
Qualifications
 | PhD (Mech Eng), Manchester University |
| MS (Electrical Engineering) University of California, Berkeley |
| BSc First Class Honours and Albert Fry Prize (Mech Eng), Bristol University |
Professional Societies
| Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| Fellow, Royal Society |
| Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia |
| Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| Member, Polymer Processing Society |
| Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics |
| Member, American Society of Rheology |
| Member, Australian Society of Rheology |
Awards /Medals
| Centenary medal |
| Fellow of ASME award |
| Fellow of the Royal Society award |
| The British Society of Rheology gold medal in 2000 |
| A.G.M. MICHELL medal by the institute of Engineers, Australia |
Research Interests
| Rheology |
| Polymer processing |
| Computational mechanics |
Selected Publications
Books
| Engineering Rheology, Oxford University Press, 1985, 451 pp. |
| Engineering Rheology, Revised Edition (paperback) Oxford University Press, 1988, 451 pp. |
| Engineering Rheology, Oxford University Press, Second Ed. 2000, 451 pp. |
| Rheology: An Historical Perspective, Elsevier, 1998, 255 pp. (with K. Walters) |
Chapters in books
- "Recoverable elastic strain and
swelling ratio", Rheological Measurement (eds A.A. Collyer and D.W. Clegg), Elsevier
Applied
Science, London, 1988 - "Boundary-element analysis of forming
processes", in Numerical Modelling of Material Deformation Processes (eds. P.
Hartley,
I. Pillinger and C. Sturgess), Springer, London, 1992, pp. 131-145 (with N. Phan-Thien) - "The motion of a sphere through an
elastic fluid", in Transport Processes in Bubbles, Drops and Particles (eds R.
Chhabra, D. De
Kee), Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York, 1992, pp.73-86 (with K. Walters) - "Extrudate Swell Computations", in
Computational Analysis of Polymer Processing, Ch. 3 (eds. J.R. Pearson and S.M.
Richardson), Applied Science Publishers, London, 1983.
Journal Articles: over 200 published articles, over 60 Refereed Conference Proceedings
For the recent list of publications refer to rheology group publication page. Some of the earlier publications are:
"A Streamline Element Scheme for
Solving Viscoelastic Flow Problems", Part II: Integral Constitutive Models, J.
Non-Newt.
Fluid Mech., 22, 1986, pp. 61-89 (with X-L Luo).
"Finite Element Simulation of Long and
Short Circular Die Extrusion Experiments Using Integral Models", Int. J. for
Numerical
Methods in Engn, 25, 1988, pp. 9-22 (with X-L Luo).
"A Boundary-Element Investigation of
the Pressure-Hole Effect", J. Rheology, 32, 1988, pp. 215-233 (with F. Sugeng and N.
Phan-Thien).
"Numerical Analysis of Three-Dimensional Newtonian Extrudate Swell", Rheol. Acta, 1991, 30, 341-356 (with CR Beverly).
"Stress Singularities in Non-Newtonian
Stick-Slip and Edge Flows", J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 1993, 50, 135-160 (with X.
Huang).
"Numerical Study of Secondary Flows of
Viscoelastic Fluid in Straight Pipes by an Implicit Finite Volume Method", J.
Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 59 (1995) 191-213 (with S-C Xue and N. Phan-Thien).
"An Adaptive Viscoelastic Stress
Splitting Scheme and its Applications: AVSS/SI and AVSS/SUPG", J. Non-Newt. Fluid
Mech.,
65 (1996) 75-91 (with J. Sun and N. Phan-Thien).
