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Serpil Kocabiyik
Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. Western Ontario 1987
M.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1981
B.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1979

Petro-Canada
Young Innovator Award, 2000

CAIMS Arthur Beaumont
Distinguished Service Award, 2006








" Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women "

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) 		      Serpil Kocabiyik, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery Cafe (June 2005), Istanbul, Turkey
   Photo by Ergun Kocabiyik (Literary Editor and Writer, Kabalci Publishing Company)

Biographical information

Dr. Kocabiyik completed her baccalaureate and master's degrees in mathematics at Middle East Technical University in 1979 and 1981, respectively. She obtained her doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 where she also stayed on for a few more years as a postdoctoral fellow before moving on to Manitoba as an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics in 1995.

Dr. Kocabiyik joined the department as an Associate Professor in 1999 and became a full Professor in 2005. She teaches mainly in the areas of fluid mechanics, partial differential equations, numerical solution of differential equations. Her research is an interdisciplinary blend of classical applied mathematics, theoretical fluid mechanics and computational science. Her recent research focuses on several classes of unsteady separated flows caused by fluid, bluff body and free-surface interaction with application to vortex-induced vibrations. She is particularly interested in a good correspondence between computational, analytical and experimental studies. Consequently, she adopts the research methodology which is a strong mix of applied analysis, numerical simulation and comparison with experiment.

Dr. Kocabiyik has published 57 refereed research articles and has given 80 lectures in 9 different countries around the world. Since 1996, she has received over $2M in peer-reviewed individual and team research grants.

Dr. Kocabiyik was awarded the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award at Memorial University in 2000. She is a lifetime member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and was honored with their Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award in 2006.

Research Interests

  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling
  • Applied Analysis and Perturbation Methods

Representative Publications

  • Forced streamwise oscillations of a circular cylinder: Locked-on modes and resulting fluid forces (with Q.M. Al-Mdallal and K.P. Lawrence). Journal of Fluids and Structures, 23 (2007) 681-701.
  • Free surface flow with moving rigid bodies. Part 1. Computational Flow Model (with O.I. Gubanov and L.A. Mironova). Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 1 (2006) 62-69.
  • Rotational oscillations of a cylinder in cross-flow (with Q.M. Al-Mdallal). International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20 (2006) 293-299.
  • Bluff-body flow created by combined rotary and translational oscillation (with Q.M. Al-Mdallal). Transactions of the Wessex Institute on the Built Environment: Fluid Structure Interaction and Moving Boundary Problems, 84 (2005) 195-203.
  • Numerical study of flow around an inclined elliptic cylinder oscillating inline with an incident uniform flow (with S.J.D. D'Alessio) European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 23 (2004) 279-302.
  • Numerical Simulation of the Flow Induced by a Transversely Oscillating Inclined Elliptic Cylinder (with S.J.D. D'Alessio). Journal of Fluids and Structures, 15 (2001) 691-715.
  • Numerical simulation of the unsteady flow over an elliptic cylinder at different orientations (with H.M. Badr and S.C.R. Dennis). International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 37 (2001) 905-931.
  • The flow induced by the rotationally oscillating and translating circular cylinder (with S.C.R. Dennis and P. Nguyen). Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 407 (2000) 123-143.

  • Symmetrical flow past an accelerated circular cylinder (with H.M. Badr and S.C.R. Dennis). Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 308 (1996) 97-110.

  • Viscous oscillatory flow about a circular cylinder at small to moderate Strouhal number (with H.M. Badr, S.C.R. Dennis and P. Nguyen). Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 303 (1995) 215-232.
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