Research Interests

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Dr David Ham received his first degrees in Mathematics and Law from the Australian National University. In 2006 he defended his doctoral thesis "On techniques for modelling coastal and ocean flow with unstructured meshes" at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Applied Modelling and Computation Group in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial.

Dr Ham's research interests centre on the development of new computational techniques for high performance simulations  of fluids, particularly geophysical fluids. His interests span computational and computer science and include both new numerical schemes and novel approaches to their implementation. He has published on the stability and symmetry characteristics of several new numerical schemes and has lead work on the development of new software toolkits for finite element models as well as a generic user interface system for scientific models.

Dr Ham's most recent work is on the automatic generation of finite element models, particularly targetting unconventional hardware such as graphical processing units.

Biography

• Grantham Research Fellow, Imperial College 2009-
• Research fellow, Imperial College 2008-
• Research associate, Imperial College 2005-2008
• Research assistant and PhD student, TU Delft, The Netherlands 2001-2005
• BSc (Mathematics) and LLB, The Australian National University 1996-2003