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Dr Steven Barry Bsc (Adel), Phd (UNSW) Current Position: Research Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 9506 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

NCEPH work:  developing mathematical models of public health. Particularly

1. systems modelling obesity;
2. systems modelling climate change and public health;
3. modelling food and water borne diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea; and
4. general computer code and models for epidemic spread;

Research Topics for prospective PhD students:

1. Mathematically modelling human weight gain including dynamics of glucose-insulin dynamics and human physiology;
2. Modelling population obesity dynamics including demographic and socio-economic factors;
3. developing a mathematical and computer modelling system of Australian public health using detailed spatial and demographic information;
4. Fractional diffusion models of infectious disease spread;
5. Developing a mathematical and computer modelling system for infectious disease spread incorporating geographic spatial data.

Other research interests:

• Mathematically modelling exercise performance including food intake, fatigue, oxygen availability, and recovery.
• Educating students, teachers, government and industry as to how mathematical modelling works and how it can be useful.

  
  

Selected Recent Publications

1. SI Barry, J Caunce. Exact and Numerical Solutions to a Stefan Problem with Two Moving Boundaries. Applied Mathematical Modelling.  2008; 32: 83-98.
2. J Caunce,  SI Barry, G Mercer.  A spatially dependent model for  washing wool,  Applied Mathematics Modelling, 2008; 32: 389-404.
3. SI Barry, M. Holmes. Asymptotic behaviour of thin poroelastic layers. IMA J. Appl. Math. 2001; 66: 175-194.
4. SI Barry, GN Mercer. Exact solutions for flow and deformation within a poroelastic media.  ASME J. Applied Mechanics.1999; 66: 536-540.
5. C Zoppou, SI Barry, GN Mercer. Mathematical modelling of human teat behaviour during breast-feeding and milk extraction using breast pumps: A comparative study. Bull. Math. Biol, 1997; 59: 953-973.
6. SI Barry, GN Mercer, C Zoppou. Approximate and analytic solutions for deformation of finite porous filters.  ASME J. Applied Mechanics,1997; 64: 929-934.
7. SI Barry, LM Gowman and CR Ethier. Obtaining the concentration dependent diffusion coefficient from ultrafiltration experiments:  Application to Hyaluronate. Biopolymers, 1996; 39: 1 - 11.
8. AMJ Davis, SI Barry and CR Ethier. Stokes flow in a channel with a porous outlet: Application to dead-end filtration. Chem. Engng. Commun. 1993; 126: 111-126.
9. SI Barry, KH Parker and GK Aldis. Shear flow over a thin deformable porous layer. J. Applied Math. and Phys, ZAMP, 1991; 42: 633-648.
10. SI Barry and GK Aldis. Unsteady flow induced deformation of porous materials. Int. J. Non-Linear Mech. 1991; 26: 687-699.