Postgraduate opportunities

I welcome enquiries from prospective students wishing to work in the areas of geophysical fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, boundary-layer theory, fundamental fluid dynamics or similar.

Past student and post-doc collaborators  include:

• Maan Al-Azhari (Ph.D. 2003)
• Xinjun Cui (Ph.D. 2003)
• Iain Harrison (Ph.D.)
• Dr. Yakun Guo (joint grant: PDRA )
• Dr. Md. Amirul Islam Khan (joint grant: PDRA 2002-2004)
• Catherine Kindred (joint supervision) (M.Phil. 2004 - 2005)
• Philip Haines (Ph.D. 2006 - 2009)
• Catherine Saunders (Ph.D. 2009 - 2013)
• Daniel Livesey (Ph.D. 2012 - 2016)
• Jay Unadkat (Ph.D. 2012 - 2016)
• Monisha Renganathan (Ph.D 2016 - 2020)
• Anthony Williams (Ph.D 2015 - 2018)
• Sean Edwards (Ph.D 2018 - 2022)
• Henry Broadley (Ph.D 2020 - 2024)
• William Skipwith (Ph.D 2024 -)
• Matthew Fields (Ph.D 2024-)

Research Group(s)

• Continuum mechanics

My background is in (applied) mathematics, but I specialise in the field of fluid mechanics. More specifically, the stability of fluid flows and asymptotic/computational methods. I am particularly interested in:  (i) geophysically or industrially relevant flows , (ii) boundary layers and (iii) exact reductions of the Navier-Stokes equations and their role in 'real' geometries.

Keywords: rotating, stratified, particle-laden, exact solution, high-speed flow, vortex, jet, plume, spin-up, suspensions, bifurcation, hydrodynamic, stability.

More details are available  here.

My research is primarily aimed towards trying to predict continuum mechanics behaviour by a combination of asymptotic, numerical and experimental techniques. Recent work has covered:

• Corrosion modelling via reaction/diffusion models.
• Geophysical fluid dynamics: rotating flows, stratified flows, interfacial flows, particle-laden flows.
• Fluid mechanics: stability theory, high-speed flow.