Melrose Brown

A/Prof Melrose Brown is the Director for UNSW Canberra Space, with research interests covering ground and space-based space domain awareness; space control; and mission design. He holds a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering. Previously he was responsible for the numerical simulation and analysis of the 'SCRAMSPACE' hypersonic flight vehicle and was heavily involved with the vehicle's design, construction, testing and launch. Since joining UNSW Canberra he has sought to apply the same coupling of high fidelity numerical simulations with ground and flight test to study the complex interaction between satellites and the space environment. His current research interests include: Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of space vehicles in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Orbit propagation and determination techniques, High fidelity drag modelling of LEO satellites, Physics-based atmosphere modelling and approximation, Hypersonic computational fluid dynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Mesospheric, Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics, Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design, Space Transport, Atmosphere and Weather not elsewhere classified, Expanding Knowledge in Engineering