Dr Murat Hakki Eres BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Murat Hakki Eres is Senior Research Fellow within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.
Dr Eres is a Senior Research Fellow at the Computational Engineering and Design Research Group. He graduated from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey) with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1990. He later continued his postgraduate work in the same university and obtained an MSc degree in 1993. His thesis title was “Adaptive Finite Element Analysis of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations”.
After receiving a full doctoral scholarship from the Turkish Higher Education Council, he started his studies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware (USA). He investigated various three-dimensional thin film flow problems involving surface tension gradients, evaporation, fingering phenomena, disjoining pressure, moving substrates, and instabilities. His thesis was entitled “Three-Dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation of Coating Flows” and he received his PhD in 1998. Later he has continued to work at the same university as a postdoctoral researcher on numerical algorithms on three-dimensional finger formations due to gravitational and Marangoni effects.
He then joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kocaeli University (Turkey) in 2000. There he established a new graduate level degree course entitled “Introduction to Linux Operating System” and continued to work on various aspects of thin film flows.
In 2002, Dr Eres joined the Computational Engineering and Design Research Group at University of Southampton as a Senior Research Fellow. He was involved in GEODISE, SIMDAT, SAMULET, and SILOET projects in partnership with Rolls-Royce plc, Airbus/EADS and GKN Aerospace Sweden. He was a task leader in the CRESCENDO project working on customer oriented conceptual design. He is currently leading various research projects sponsored by Rolls-Royce plc, EPSRC and European Union.
