Dr Luke Bennetts
ARC Ext-Funded Rsch Fellow (D)
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
I am an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide. The School is one of Australia’s top maths schools, designated well above world standard in all areas of mathematics and statistics in the most recent ARC Excellence in Research for Australia assessment.
My research interests are broadly in the Mathematics of Climate Science and Wave Science, using continuum mechanics and approximation methods, backed by data from laboratory experiments and field observations. Find some recent research highlights below.
Research news:
- I'm organising a 6-month Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Mathematical theory and applications of multiple wave scattering (Jan–Jun 2023), including a Winter School for early-career researchers (9–13 Jan 2023).
- I was the Lead Guest Editor of a Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A theme issue on Theory, modelling and observations of marginal ice zone dynamics, including an article on Future research perspectives and pathways.
- I co-authored a The Conversation article Scientists are divining the future of Earth’s ice-covered oceans at their harsh fringes.
Recent research highlights:
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2020 - ongoing Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics University of Adelaide 2015 - 2019 Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics University of Adelaide 2011 - 2014 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics University of Adelaide 2007 - 2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Otago -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2023 Fellowship Clare Hall, University of Cambridge lifetime Visiting Fellowship University of Cambridge United Kingdom - 2021 Award Gavin Brown Best Paper Prize Australian Mathematical Society Australia - 2020 Award Australian Mathematical Society Medal Australian Mathematical Society Australia - 2020 Fellowship Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany - 2020 Fellowship Future Fellowship Australian Research Council Australia 884,063 2017 Fellowship Simons Foundation Fellowship Simons Foundation United States - 2016 Award South Australia Young Tall Poppy Australian Institute of Policy and Science Australia - 2016 Award Christopher Heyde Medal Australian Academy of Sciences Australia - 2013 Fellowship Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Australian Research Council Australia 375,000 -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title University of Reading United Kingdom PhD Applied Mathematics University of Reading United Kingdom MSc Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations University of Reading United Kingdom BSc (Hons) Mathematics -
Research Interests
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Journals
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2024 Eayrs, C., Lee, W. S., Jin, E., Lemieux, J. F., Massonnet, F., Vancoppenolle, M., . . . Yun, S. (2024). Advances in Machine Learning Techniques Can Assist Across a Variety of Stages in Sea Ice Applications. In Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 105 (pp. E527-E531). American Meteorological Society.
2022 Kong, J., Bennetts, L. G., Nugroho, B., & Chin, R. (2022). REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS IN 2D SQUARE-BAR ROUGHNESS WALL-BOUNDED TURBULENT FLOWS. In 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2022 (pp. 6 pages). Online: International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP. -
Preprint
Year Citation 2023 Day, N., Bennetts, L. G., O'Farrell, S. P., Alberello, A., & Montiel, F. (2023). Unsupervised classification of the Antarctic marginal ice zone.
2023 Liang, J., Pitt, J. P. A., & Bennetts, L. G. (2023). Pan-Antarctic assessment of ice shelf flexural responses to ocean waves.
2022 Australian Research Council LIEF, An autonomous sea state monitoring system for Australia’s research fleet.
2021–2025 Australian Research Council Linkage Project, Building Australia’s next-generation ocean-sea ice model.
*2020–2023 Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Empowering next-generation sea-ice models with wave–ice mathematics.
*2020–2024 Australian Research Council FT, Integrating rifts and swell in the mathematics of ice shelf disintegration.
*2020–2024 Australian Antarctic Science Program, A susceptibility index for ice shelf disintegration due to sea ice loss and swell impacts.
2020–2022 Australian Research Council: Linkage Project, Controlling coastlines while generating power.
2019–2022 Australia–China Joint Research Centre on Marine Renewable Energy.
*2017–2019 DST Research Agreement, Acoustic metamaterials for effective vibro-isolation.
*2017–2020 Australian Antarctic Science Program, Drift of the Antarctic ice edge.
2017–2019 Antarctic Circumnavigation Experiment, Metocean properties of the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters: winds, waves, currents, ice, and their interactions.
2014 Australian Research Council LIEF, A thermally stratified sea ice-wave tank facility.
*2013–2015 Group of Eight Australia-Germany Research Cooperation Scheme, A multiscale method for wave propagation through arrays of floating bodies.
*2013–2016 Australian Research Council DECRA, Assimilation of ocean wave interactions with sea ice into climate models.
2013 CITEPH (sponsors Total, Saipen, Doris Engineering), A laboratory wave basin model of wave propagation in the marginal ice zone.
*2012–2015 Australian Antarctic Science Program, Modelling ocean wave/sea ice interactions: Experimental validation and assimilation into operational models.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Co-Supervisor Statics and Dynamics of Nanostructures Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Aiesha Holly Baldry 2022 Principal Supervisor Mathematical Theory of Controlling Coastlines While Generating Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Amy-Rose Westcott 2021 Principal Supervisor Predicting ice-shelf disintegration using mathematical models Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jie Liang 2021 Principal Supervisor Modelling the marginal ice zone Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Noah Shepherd Day 2020 Co-Supervisor Flow control in rough wall turbulence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jiahao Kong 2020 Principal Supervisor A susceptibility index for catastrophic disintegration of Antarctic ice shelves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Nathan Teder -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Nonlinear behavior of the free surface disturbed by a submerged vertical circular cylinder undergoing forced heaving oscillations Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Raphael Alwan 2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Mathematical modelling of overwash on low freeboard bodies by water waves Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time David Matthew Skene 2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Modelling the Wave-Induced Collisions of Ice Floes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lucas Yiew
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2022 - 2022 Board Member SMMC 2022 Organising Committee Statistics and Mathematical Modelling in Combination Australia 2022 - 2022 Board Member MOSSI 2022 Organising Committee Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets Australia 2022 - 2022 Co-Chair Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference on Multiscale Dynamics of the Southern Ocean Organising Committee Australian Academy of Science Australia 2022 - 2024 Co-Chair ANZIAM 2024 Organising Committee Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society Australia 2022 - ongoing Co-Chair KOZWavinar Online Seminar Series Organising Committee Australasian Wave Science Society Australia 2021 - ongoing Board Member ANZIAM Executive Committee Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society Australia 2021 - ongoing Board Member ANZIAM SA Committee ANZIAM South Australia branch Australia 2020 - 2020 Board Member MOSSI 2020 Organising Committee Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets Australia 2015 - 2015 Chair KOZWaves 2015 Organising Committee Australasian Wave Science Society Australia 2015 - ongoing Chair KOZWaves Executive Committee Australasian Wave Science Society Australia 2014 - 2014 Co-Chair KOZWaves 2014 Organising Committee Australasian Wave Science Society Australia 2010 - ongoing Chair New Zealand Sea Ice Symposium 2010 Organising Committee New Zealand Sea Ice Society New Zealand
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