Thermal convection in rotating spherical shell is the fundamental model of the fluid inner core of the Earth.
Fluids
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Patterns of convection in rotating spherical shell
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Patterns of thermal convection.
Thermal convection is one of the simplest pattern forming spatially extended systems.
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Busse columns of convection
Thermal convection in rotating spherical shell is the fundamental model of the fluid inner core of the Earth.
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Radial component of the geomagnetic field
Comparison between observations (left) and a numerical simulation (right).
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Flowfield around bacteria
The flowfield around a single cell of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis that is constrained between a lower no-slip boundary and an upper stress-free boundary.
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Simulation of swimming algae
The flowfield around the biflagellated swimming green algae Chlamydomonas nivalis produced using the method of regularized stokeslets: the flagella beat at 50 Hz.
Fluid Dynamics is the study of the motion of fluids (both liquids and gases) and poses one of the great unsolved problems of classical physics - the problem of turbulence. Our research in Fluid Mechanics covers a number of interdisciplinary applications, and an enormous range of scales from the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar and planetary magnetic fields to the swimming of bacteria, and there is considerable overlap of interests with the Mathematical Biology Group. The group has funding from the EPSRC, and many collaborators in Europe and the USA.
Dr Martin A Bees Reader/EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Bioconvection; flow due to swimming cells; Plankton patchiness; chemically induced hydrodynamic instabilites; cell dispersion in pipe flow
Member of other research groups: Mathematical Biology
Research staff: Otti Croze
Research students: Reem Almahmud, Bilal Usmani
Dr Otti Croze Postdoctoral Research Associate
Swimming algae; bioconvection
Member of other research groups: Mathematical Biology
Supervisor: Martin A Bees
Prof Nicholas A Hill Head of School
Biological and physiological fluid dynamics; bioconvection; physiological pulse propagation
Member of other research groups: Solid Mechanics, Mathematical Biology
Research students: Reem Almahmud, Weiwei Chen, Beibei Li, Muhammad Umar Qureshi, Bilal Usmani, Lei Wang
Prof Xiaoyu Luo Professor of Applied Mathematics
Biomechanics; fluid-structure interactions; mathematical biology ; solid mechanics
Member of other research groups: Solid Mechanics, Mathematical Biology
Research staff: Hao Gao, Wenguang Li, Yunfei Zhu
Research students: Andrew Allan, Weiwei Chen, Yujue Hao, Xingshuang Ma, Nan Qi, Lei Wang
Dr Steven Roper RCUK Fellow in Interfaces of Solid Mechanics
Fluid driven fracture; compositional convection; thin films; phase-change driven fluid motion and crystal growth
Member of other research groups: Solid Mechanics
Research students: Beibei Li, Lei Wang
Dr Radostin Simitev Lecturer
Thermal convection in rotating systems. MHD and dynamo theory
Member of other research groups: Mathematical Biology
Research student: Andrew Allan
Nan Qi PhD Student
Research Topic: Finite element-immersed boundary method and its application to mitral valves and the heart
Member of other research groups: Solid Mechanics, Mathematical Biology
Supervisor: Xiaoyu Luo
Muhammad Umar Qureshi PhD Student
Research Topic: Pulse Propagation in the Pulmonary Circulation
Supervisor: Nicholas A Hill