Professor Stephen G.R. Brown is a materials scientist and head of the Materials Research Centre at Swansea University

Swansea University

Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...

Brown is a specialist in computational materials, and has over 20 years of experience with writing code in finite element, finite difference, cellular automata, Monte Carlo and data analysis techniques. He has had numerous research collaborations with industry including relationships with Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce plc

Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...

 and Airbus

Airbus

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. In 2010 he took over the role as the head of the Materials Research Centre, which was previously held buy Professor Valerie Randle

Valerie Randle

Professor Valerie Randle. Materials engineer and professor at Swansea University specialising in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering. She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998. She has made significant contributions and publications in the field of grain boundary engineering...

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Commercial Activities

Brown is the Director of Eidawn Software Ltd., The Abbey, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.

Research

Brown's main research areas are in:

- Solidification

- Heat transfer

Heat transfer

Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the exchange of thermal energy from one physical system to another. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation, and phase-change transfer...

- Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics, usually abbreviated as CFD, is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with...

- Microstructure

Microstructure

Microstructure is defined as the structure of a prepared surface or thin foil of material as revealed by a microscope above 25× magnification...

Evolution

- Granular Flow

Selected Research Papers

1. “Numerical Determination of Liquid Flow Permeabilities for Equiaxed Dendritic Structures”
SGR Brown, JA Spittle, RS Walden-Bevan and DJ Jarvis
Acta Materialia, 50 (2002), 1559-1569.

2. “An Analysis of Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation as a tool for Modelling Strain Ageing”
A.J.P.Gater & S.G.R Brown
Scripta Materialia 53 (2005) 625–630.

3. “3D Computer simulation of the influence of microstructure on the cut edge corrosion behaviour of a zinc aluminium alloy galvanized steels”
SGR Brown & NC Barnard
Corrosion Science 48 (2006) 2291–2303

4. “A review of measurement techniques for the thermal expansion coefficient of metals and alloys at elevated temperatures”
JD James, JA Spittle, SGR Brown & RW Evans
Meas. Sci. & Tech., 12(2001), R1-R15.