Awards & Fellowships

• Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, 1997
• Computational Mechanics Award, International Association of Computational Mechanics, for outstanding contributions in the area of computational fluid dynamics, 1998
• NASA Group Achievement Award for work on the development of a numerical procedure to aid the design of national aerospace plane engine cowl leading edges subjected to shock/shock interference heating, 1989
• Fellow, International Association of Computational Mechanics, 2004
• Honorary Fellow, International Association for Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2003
• Catherine Richards Prize for the best paper in Mathematics Today, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, 1999

Employment History

• Head, Civil & Computational Engineering Centre, University of Wales Swansea, 2003-
• Professor, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 2002-
• Dean of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1997-2000 Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1991-1996
• Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1991-2002
• Zaharoff Professor of Aviation, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, 1989-1991
• Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1988-1989
• Reader, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1986-1988
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1984-1986
• Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, 1975-1984
• Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, 1972-1975
• Scientific Officer, Mathematical Physics Division, UKAEA, AWRE, Aldermaston, 1969-1972

Visiting Research Appointments

• Visiting Scientist, Aerothermal Loads Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, 1993-95
• Research Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1988-1992
• Research Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1986-87
• Visiting Research Scientist, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Centre, 1985
• Visiting Scientist, Aerothermal Loads Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, 1982-84
• Visiting Scientist, Applied Mechanics Division, Joint Research Centre of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy, 1980 and 1981.

Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals

• The Aeronautical Journal (Associate Editor), Royal Aeronautical Society
• Computational Mechanics, Springer
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Elsevier International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley
• International Journal for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Taylor & Francis
• Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley
• Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Springer
• Applied Mathematical Modelling, Elsevier
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Emerald
• International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, GBS
• International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Taylor & Francis
• Open Aerospace Engineering Journal, Bentham Science
• Open Aerospace Engineering Reviews, Bentham Science
• Open Aerospace Engineering Letters, Bentham Science

Conference Presentations

• 8th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, Stellenbosch University, 2006.
• AFFRST Seminar on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing with PDEs and Their Challenging Applications, Espoo, Finland, 2005.
• 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Jyvaskyla, 2004.
• 5th Zienkiewicz Lecture, Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications, Brunel University, 2003.
• 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering, Liege, 2002.
• US Army Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics, Washington, 2002.
• LMS/EPSRC Wave Propagation Symposium, Durham, 2002.
• Symposium on Innovative Tools for Scientific Computation in Aeronautical Engineering, Paris, 2001.
• 2nd International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Leuven, Belgium, 2000.
• Scientific Lecture, Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, August 2000.

Conference Organisation

• Co-Chairman, 13th Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems, Swansea, 2005.
• Co-Chairman, 6th ECCOMAS European Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Swansea, 2001.
• Vice-Chairman, ECCOMAS2000 European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Barcelona, 2000.

Committee

• General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 1993-
• Management Board of the European Committee for Computational Methods in the Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), 1991-

Recent Research Grants

• Platform Grant: Advances in mesh generation, 2006-2011(EPSRC)
• ADIGMA: High order methods for computational aerodynamics, 2006-2009 (EC)
• FLAVIIR: Integrated programme of research in aeronautical engineering, 2004-2007(EPSRC/BAE SYSTEMS)
• Plane wave elements for the solution of Maxwell’s equations, 2002-2005(EPSRC)   

Recent Publications

• O. C. Zienkiewicz and K. Morgan, Finite Elements and Approximation, Dover, Mineola, New York, 328pp, 2006.
• A. J. Gil, Z. Zhang, O. Hassan and K. Morgan, A parallel multigrid DES algorithm for the solution of 3D unsteady incompressible flows on unstructured grids, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 19:271—280, 2007.
• P. D. Ledger, K. Morgan and O. Hassan, Electromagnetic scattering simulations using an H(curl) conforming hp finite element method in three dimensions, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 53:1267—1296, 2007.
• O. Hassan, D. Wang, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, Enhanced remeshing from STL files with applications to surface grid generation, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 23:227—239, 2007.
• O. Hassan, K. A. Sørensen, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, A method for time accurate turbulent compressible fluid flow simulation with moving boundary components employing local remeshing, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 53:1243—1266, 2007.
• D. R. Davies, J. H. Davies, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and P. N. Nithiarasu, Investigations into the applicability of adaptive finite element methods to two-dimensional infinite Prandtl number thermal and thermo-chemical convection, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 8, Q05010, doi:10.1029/2006GC001470, 2007.
• I. Sazonov, D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, A stitching method of unstructured mesh generation for co-volume solution techniques, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195:1826—1845, 2006.
• D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, EQSM: an efficient high quality surface grid generation method based on remeshing, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194:5621—5633, 2006.
• D. Wang, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and N. P. Weatherill, Efficient surface reconstruction from contours based on two—dimensional Delaunay triangulation, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 65:734—751, 2006.
• P. D. Ledger, K. Morgan and O. Hassan, Frequency and time domain electromagnetic scattering simulations employing higher order edge elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194:105—125, 2005.
• M. El hachemi, O. Hassan, K. Morgan, D. Rowse and N. P. Weatherill, A low-order unstructured mesh approach for computational electromagnetics in the time domain, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 362:445—469, 2004.
• O. Hassan, K. Morgan, J. Jones, B. Larwood and N. P. Weatherill, Parallel 3D time domain electromagnetic scattering simulation on unstructured meshes, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 5:383—394, 2004.