Jack King

I am a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester.

I read Engineering at the Univesity of Cambridge, specialising in fluid dynamics. I subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, developing techniques for modelling seismic air gun bubbles, before joining the University of Manchester in 2017 as a research associate in the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics group. In 2022 I was awarded a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship.

The primary focus of my research is the development of novel numerical methods for complex flows, and their use to obtain insights into fundamental fluid behaviour. A particular focus is the challenge of combustion simulations in support of the next generation of cleaner or hydrogen based combustion technologies.

My specific research interests are:

• High-order and mesh-free methods (especially LABFM and SPH);
• Reacting flows and flame-turbulence-structure interactions;
• Convection and thermal turbulence in porous geometries;
• Non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, and elastic instabilities;
• Free surface and multiphase flows;
• Artificial boundary conditions;
• Bubble dynamics.