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Members of the group apply a variety of techniques from Applied Mathematics to diverse problems in Medicine, Biology, Fluid Dynamics, Materials and Soft Matter Science. The biological systems studied range from intracellular processes to those at the scale of organisms and populations. The fluid flows studied range from environmental buoyancy-driven flows to technologically important micro- and nanofluidic flows. The modelling of materials involves the use of mathematical and computational techniques to solve a wide and varied class of problems; this includes nanoscale devices where the fate of individual atoms is important. It
spans length scales and time scales that vary over many orders of
magnitude
and involves the solution of equations that range from continuum to
quantum mechanical descriptions.
The group holds seminars in the Applied Mathematics seminar series.
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Academic staff
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| Dr Andrew Archer |
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Soft condensed matter, with particular interests in the behavior of (colloidal) fluids at interfaces, the statistical mechanics of solvation, in developing and applying dynamical density functional theories and in investigating novel freezing, clustering and pattern forming behavior in model fluids. |
| Dr Natalia Janson |
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Nonlinear dynamics, synchronization, noise-induced phenomena in nonlinear systems (including neural models) and their control, systems with time delay, nonlinear time series analysis, applications to the cardiovascular system. |
| Dr Anthony Kay |
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Theoretical analyses of buoyancy-driven flows, particularly in fresh water near its temperature of maximum density; these flows include thermal bars, plumes and gravity currents. Asymptotic and perturbation methods are used extensively to solve the governing equations, supported by numerical solutions and by laboratory experiments done by collaborators. |
| Dr Steven Kenny |
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Development and use of ab-initio methods for the modelling of materials science problems. Development of a localised-orbital density functional theory code, PLATO, for use in a wide range of projects, including applications to materials systems. |
| Professor Roger Smith |
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Materials modelling, particularly of semi-conductor processing and nanotechnology. Biofilm growth; Continuum and cellular models of surface propagation; Particle ejection from ion-bombarded surfaces; Diamond growth and two-phonon absorption; Molecular dynamics simulations of metals, polymers and covalent materials; Nanoindentation and nanofriction; Cluster applications in nanotechnology |
| Professor Uwe Thiele |
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Dynamics of simple/complex fluids at interfaces and in confined geometries; modelling the structure-forming interplay of wettability, capillarity, chemical reactions and phase transitions with transport processes on the meso-scale (continuum models) and on the micro-scale (discrete models). Arising equations are analysed using dynamical systems theory, asymptotic and continuation techniques. |
| Dr Dmitri Tseluiko |
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Analytical and computational studies of liquid-film flows, including analysis of mathematical problem arising in interfacial electrohydrodynamics, thin-film flows over topographical substrates, nonlinear waves and low-dimensional complexity and self-organisation in interfacial flows, viscous dispersion effects on bound-state formation in falling liquid films, two-phase flows with one phase laminar and another one turbulent. |
| Dr John Ward |
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Mathematical biology and medicine: bacterial physiology (particularly biofilms and quorum sensing); tumour growth and drug transport; wound infections and healing; immunological responses to irritants; invasive spread of Japanese Knotweed. |
Research associates |
| Dr Hender Lopez |
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Mathematical and numerical modeling of the evaporative dynamics of complex thin liquid films, in particular the study of the deposition process when the fluid in a suspension or solution. Computational Physics, mainly developing and improving particle methods, e.g. SPH and Monte Carlo. |
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