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Graham Weir
Dr Graham Weir has led Industrial Research’s applied maths actitivities since the CRI[?] came into being in 1992. This has involved overseeing commercial work relating to porous media flow, such as geothermal modelling, and some petroleum and irrigation modelling.
Graham Weir
The geothermal modelling concerns all aspects from modelling surface features, well testing, field assessment, chemical transport and deposition, reinjection, and the development of regional models of geothermal regions.
Dr Weir’s special geothermal interests include modelling geyser behaviour, developing the theory for two phase flow in boiling regions of geothermal fields, and constructing large-scale models of geothermal field behaviour.
He is also interested in plastic behaviour of materials, both at the macroscopic and nano-scales, and has been a panellist on the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology’s Nanotechnology Roadmap and a member of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics’ committee on nano and micro fluidics.
Dr Weir has a DSc from the University of Canterbury, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Life Member of AIChE, and belongs to several applied mathematics bodies. He was made a Distinguished Scientist at IRL in 1999.
Since 2008 he has been IRL’s science development manager, responsible for reviewing and developing career development policies for scientific and technical staff, post-doctoral programmes and interaction with NZ and overseas universities.