Dr Igle Gledhill is a principal researcher at the CSIR Aeronautic Systems research group.
Research experience and interests:
Dr Gledhill specialises in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), especially for transonic flow, prediction of aerodynamic loads on accelerating bodies, prediction of safe store release from aircraft. She is also interested in the comparison of wind tunnel and other predictive methods, discrete element methods; properties of non-linear optical materials, modelling of air combat and air warfare. Computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, rational drug design, lattice gases and cellular automata are a few more of Dr Gledhill’s interests.
Career background:
1983-1985 University of California, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Thermonuclear fusion and plasma simulation
1985-1987 Stanford University, California
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Lab (STARLab)
Space shuttle physics, plasma simulation, galactic simulation
1987-present CSIR
Current post: Principal Researcher:
Defence, Peace, Safety and Security
Project Manager for projects as required
Detailed qualifications:
1976 BSc, Rhodes University
Physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics (distinction in Physics)
1977 BSc(Hons), Rhodes University
Physics (distinction)
1983 PhD
University of Natal, Durban
Thesis: Ion Acoustic Waves in Multi-Species Plasmas
2001 Executive National Security Programme
South African National Defence College
Professional memberships:
Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, M.Assaf
South African Institute of Physics Sigma Xi
Professional Natural Scientist, Pr. Sci. Nat.
Awards and achievements:
2004 As Member of CFD Team: CSIR Defencetek “Assegai” Award for Transformation
2009 Career Achievement Award, Defence, Peace, Safety and Security Operational Unit, CSIR
2013 As Member of MBARC Team: CSIR DPSS Team Award
2000-2008 President, South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2006-2012.1 Member of IUTAM Working Party 9 on Education and Capacity Building
1994 President, South African Council for Automation and Computation
2000-2004 National Research Foundation
2004 Member of International Panel appointed by the Department of Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation, and the SA Institute for Physics (SAIP), “Shaping the Future of Physics in South Africa”, March 2004
2007-present Member and Vice-Chair of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working Group on Women in Physics
2013 President, SA Institute of Physics
2012-2014 Member of Council, South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions
2008-2010 Chair, CSIR Strategic Research Panel
Published research:
IMA Gledhill and MA Hellberg, Criteria governing ion-acoustic waves in two-ion plasmas, J. Plasma Physics, 36, 75-96, 1986
MP Dell, IMA Gledhill and MA Hellberg, Criteria governing electron plasma waves in a two-temperature plasma, Z. Naturforsch. 42a, 1175-1180, 1987
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=7719260
IMA Gledhill and LRO Storey, Particle simulation of plasmas on the Massively Parallel Processor, First Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Scientific Computation, p 37-46, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1986
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987fmps.nasa…37G
IMA Gledhill, Fluid dynamics on parallel processors: the cellular automaton approach, in Parallel Processing: Technology and Applications, H Neishlos ed., IOS Amsterdam, 1989
K Forsberg, IMA Gledhill, P Eliasson, and J Nordström, Investigations of acceleration effects on missile aerodynamics using CFD, AIAA-2003-4084, 21st Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 23-26 June 2003, Orlando, Florida
http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2003-4084
IMA Gledhill, Strategic Knowledge Security: States, Companies and Emerging Threats, Forum 6, Chapter 9, 9-1 – 9-C1, South African National Defence College Association, October 2002
Irvy M.A. Gledhill, Karl Forsberg, Peter Eliasson, Jeffrey Baloyi and Jan Nordström, Investigation of acceleration effects on missile aerodynamics using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace Science and Technology, 13, 197-203, 2009
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1270963809000145
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/3640
Conference Proceedings
IMA Gledhill and MA Hellberg, Ion acoustic waves in two ion plasmas, Proc. Int. Conf. on Plasma Physics, Göteborg, 315, 1982
IMA Gledhill and MA Hellberg, Instability in a two-ion plasma with mass-related ion drift, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Plasma Science, San Diego, 48, 1983.
IMA Gledhill, MP Dell and MA Hellberg, Critical behaviour of electron plasma waves with two electron temperatures, Proc. 16th Int. Conf. on Phenomena in Ionised Gases, Düsseldorf, 1983.
D L Hawla, IMA Gledhill, and H Neishlos, A symbolic processing approach to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Symposium of CFD – Technology and Applications, Pretoria, Nov. 1988
IMA Gledhill, DL Hawla and H Neishlos, A cellular automaton model on a Transputer system, Seminar on Ecomonic Parallel Processing, Bern, Switzerland, 1988
IMA Gledhill, Initial results from a lattice gas fluid simulation, Proc. 2nd National Conference on CFD, 1991
IMA Gledhill and MA Honman, Hypertext for documentation: an example from simulation on parallel processors, SA Council of Automation and Computation Workshop on Technology Transfer from Project Engineering to Operations and the Subsequent Management of the Documentation, Johannesburg, August 1992
MA Honman and IMA Gledhill, Design of a multi-blocking system for CFD, 3rd SA CFD Conference, Stellenbosch, June 1993
IMA Gledhill and DJ Uys, Simulation of compressible flow fields using a multi-block Navier-Stokes code, Proc. 1st SA Conference on Applied Mechanics (SACAM), Midrand, 1996
IMA Gledhill and RGW Thomson, Determination of approximate miss vectors with a low-cost target system, Proc. 1st SA Conference on Applied Mechanics (SACAM), Midrand, 1996
IMA Gledhill, M Bennett and PJ Lake, Store simulation with overset grid techniques, Proc. 2nd SA Conference on Applied Mechanics (SACAM), Cape Town, 1998
AK Cooper, JM Greben, F Van der Bergh, IMA Gledhill, BR Cannoo, WJvdM Steyn and R De Villiers, 27 March 2008, “A Preliminary Physics-Engine Model of Dolosse Interacting with One Another”, Sixth South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM08), Cape Town, 9pp., 2008
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/2386
BR Cannoo, IM A Gledhill, AK Cooper and JM Greben, 27 March 2008, “Navier-Stokes Wave Models for Investigations of Breakwater Characteristics”, Sixth South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM08), Cape Town, 8pp., 2008
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/2385
JM Greben, AK Cooper, IM A Gledhill and R De Villiers, 17&18 November 2008, “Numerical modelling of structures of dolosse and their interaction with waves”, 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference: Science Real and relevant, Pretoria, 6pp., 2008
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/2556
S Rao, I Gledhill, B K Hartline, Z Ben Lakhdar, A J MacLachlan, K Mack, A Mehta, L-A Wu, and H Zhang, Personal Professional Development, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 1119, pp 7-10, Women in Physics: Third IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, Seoul (South Korea), 8-10 October 2008, Ed. K Hartline, R K Horton, and C M Kaicher, 2009
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/bitstream/10204/3517/1/Rao_2008.pdf
M Diale, S J Buchner, Z Buthelezi, I M A Gledhill, D J Grayson, and N A Kgabi, Women in Physics in South Africa: The Story to 2008, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 1119, pp 169-170, Women in Physics: Third IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, Seoul (South Korea), 8-10 October 2008, Ed. K Hartline, R K Horton, and C M Kaicher , 2009
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/3518
JM Greben, AK Cooper, R de Villiers, I Gledhill and F van den Bergh, Characterization and Properties of Breakwater Structures modelled by a Physics Engine, Seventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics SACAM10, Pretoria, 10-13 January, 2010http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4978
MB Mbanjwa, K Land, L Jewell, EA Moss and I MA Gledhill, Experimental observations of capillary instabilities of two-phase flow in a microfluidic T-junction, Seventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics SACAM10, Pretoria, 10-13 January, 2010
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4847
AK Cooper, R de Villiers, JM Greben, F van den Bergh and IMA Gledhill, Simulating the rubble mound underlying armour units protecting a breakwater, Seventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics SACAM10, Pretoria, 10-13 January, 2010
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/5689
R Mukaro, K Govender, I Gledhill and NL Kokwe, Velocity flow field and water level measurements in shoaling and breaking water waves, Seventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics SACAM10, Pretoria, 10-13 January, 2010
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4976
M Diale, I M A Gledhill, S J Buchner, M Tibane, D J Grayson and R Maphanga, Women in Physics in South Africa: Progress to 2011, Fourth IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 5-8, 2011
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/10.1063/1.4794264
Gledhill, IMA and Nordstrom, J. 2010. Aerodynamics in arbitrarily accelerating frames: application to high-g turns. 55th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, 27 September-1 October 2010, pp 1
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4678
M B Mbanjwa, , K Land, L Jewell, and I MA Gledhill, Experimental and numerical studies of emulsion formation in a microfluidic T-junction, AfriCOMP11: Second African Conference on Computational Mechanics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 5-8 January 2011, pp 4
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4817
M Bode, I Gledhill, D Gravestock, H Hoppe, T Khan, S Moleele, L Nkabinda, S Pelly and C van der Westhuyzen, Compounds acting against HIV: Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines as non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs). NNRTI presentation CSIR conference 2010, pp 16
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/4369
Gledhill, I.M.A, Greben, J.M, Cooper, A.K, De Villiers, R and Grobler, J-H. 2013. The use of physics engines in quantifying breakwater damage. In: 32nd Annual Southern African Transport Conference (SATC 2013), CSIR International Convention Centre, 8-11 July 2013
http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/handle/10204/6901
Selected Reports
IMA Gledhill, Computer simulation of methane explosions at the Kloppersbos experimental facility, CSIR Report AERO 97/299, 1997
MA Hellberg, K Bharuth-Ram, M Ducloy, K Evans-Lutterodt, SJ Gates, I Gledhill, G Tessema, and AW Wolfendale, Report of the International Panel appointed by the Department of Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation, and the SA Institute for Physics, “Shaping the Future of Physics in South Africa”, March 2004, www.saip.org.za
http://www.saip.org.za/index.php/projects/shaping-the-future-of-physics-in-sa
Unit: DPSS
Contact details:
dpss@csir.co.za
