About
OakPalm.com is the online home of Dr. David Kao. It is here that I publish the software that I have written for use in my research. My expertise is in the mathematical modelling of physical systems, specialising in the simulation of the acoustic response of vibrating structures. Therefore most of the software available is related to this.
Skills
The following are skills that I have acquired throughout my professional and research careers:
- Java
- C++
- Matlab/Octave
- Solution of Ordinary/Partial Differential Equations
- Model fitting, adaption and optimisation
- Time series analysis
Research
I completed my PhD in 2006 at the University of Greenwich. My thesis was entitled "The Vibro-Acoustic Modelling
and Analysis of Damage Mechanisms in Paper".
The following is a selection of journal and conference papers that I have published:
- Kao, D., Graham, D., Knight, B., and Pericleous, K. A mathematical description of the acoustic couplin of the mass/spring model, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 31, Issue 12, 2007, 2684-2695.
- Kao, D., Pericleous, K., and Graham, D. An analysis of the changes to the mechanical and acoustical properties of paper caused by the damage mechanisms present in the fibre structure. In The Fourteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (Cairns, 9 - 12 July 2007), ICSV14.
- Kao, D., Pericleous, K., Graham, D., and Knight, B. Use of a coupled mechanical-acoustic computational model to identify failure mechanisms in paper production. In The Thirteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (Vienna, 2 - 6 July 2006), ICSV13.
Education
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PhD entitled "The Vibro-Acoustic Modelling and Analysis of Damage Mechanisms in Paper"
University of Greenwich, 2006 -
MSc Computational Science and Engineering with Distinction
University of Greenwich, 2003. -
BSc Physics with Theoretical Physics
Imperial College, 2003