Names: Prof S Shateyi
Position: Professor and HOD of Science Foundation
Qualification(s): PhD
Research areas of specialization: Computational fluid dynamics, differential equations, numerical methods, Modelling.
Contact details (Tel.No, Email(s), and Office no):
Tel.No:015 962 8163
Email:Stanford.shateyi@univen.ac.za
Description: My research areas of interest are Fluid Mechanics, Differential equations and Numerical Analysis. I have been involved in research on topics such as magneto hydrodynamics, steady and unsteady flows, stretching and shrinking surfaces, nanofluid flows, among others. I have analysed the effects of different significant parameters affecting fluid flows in both Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids, both Darcy and Non-Darcy flows. I am member of a research group in Fluid Mechanics which is involved in developing new analytical and numerical techniques. In this research group we have managed to improve well known analytical techniques such as the well celebrated Homotropy analysis method. This research group has managed to breed methods like Spectral analysis and Homotropy analysis together to produce more accurate results. We are currently developing block hybrid linear multi-step methods with off-step points to solve systems of linear and non-linear differential equations. It has been proved that the additional off-step points significantly improve the accuracy of these methods as well as ensuring consistency, zero-stability and convergence.
