Rate My Professor Simon Watt

Watt has produced over 60 publications, including 36 journal articles, 26 conference papers, and 4 preprints. Key recent works include 'Performance analysis of the activated sludge model number 1 in a two reactor cascade' (2024, Food and Bioproducts Processing), 'Incorporating Stochastic Wind Vectors in Wildfire Spread Prediction' (2023, Atmosphere), 'Numerical Study on Effect of Ambient Humidity Variation on Self-heating and Spontaneous Ignition of the Eucalyptus Bark Pile' (2021, Fire Technology), 'A Mathematical Model of Humanitarian Aid Agencies in Attritional Conflict Environments' (2021, Operations Research), 'Chaotic flow in competitive exothermic–endothermic reaction systems' (2021, Applied Mathematics Letters), 'Properties of nonadiabatic combustion waves in competitive exothermic reactions' (2020, Applied Mathematical Modelling), and 'Effectiveness of physics-based collapse criteria in seismic risk assessment of code-conforming low-rise RC framed structures' (2020, Structures). Highly cited contributions feature 'Linear and nonlinear dynamics of cylindrically and spherically expanding detonation waves' (2005, 70 citations), 'The accurate dynamic modelling of contaminant dispersion in channels' (1995, 50 citations), 'Deterministic KPZ model for stromatolite laminae' (2000, 43 citations), and 'Using phase change materials and air gaps in designing fire fighting suits: a mathematical investigation' (2019, 35 citations). He chairs the ANZIAM Early-Career Workshop 2026 and has organized events like MODSIM2019 and CTAC2020.