Mr Iain Bethune
EPCC Project Manager
Iain works at EPCC, specialising in performance analysis and optimisation of HPC applications. He develops scalable software to allow researchers to harness HPC resources such as HECToR and ARCHER - the UK National HPC Services - and the European PRACE infrastructure. Most of his work has been in the area of Materials Science, and he is a developer on the CP2K project - a powerful program enabling Density Functional Theory and other atomistic modelling techniques to be applied a diverse range of systems using tens of thousands of CPU cores.
Iain has a wide-ranging interest in high performance computing architectures and programming models including MPI, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenCL and is a developer for the PrimeGrid volunteer computing project, which promotes mass participation in the solution of mathematical problems, as well as finding very large - million digit - prime numbers
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Dr Matthew Borg
Lecturer
Research interests include nano/micro flows, desalination and filtration applications through nanoporous membranes, engineered multifunctional surfaces, hybrid molecular-continuum methodologies, multiscale modelling, Lagrangian/particle methods (software: molecular dynamics, direct simulation Monte Carlo), rarefied gas micro flows and hypersonic flows, computational fluid dynamics, high performance computing.
Professor Alistair Borthwick
Chair in Applied Hydrodynamics
Research interests include coastal and offshore engineering, environmental fluid mechanics, water and sediment science, flood simulation, all material fluxes in large river basins, chaotic advection and mixing processes, water and wastewater treatment, and marine power resource assessment.
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Dr Michal Branicki
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Information theory & stochastic analysis for uncertainty quantification in prediction of partially observed dynamical system
- Probabilistic methods in PDE’s & ODE’s
- Stochastic Bayesian filtering of high-dimensional dynamical systems
- Concentration of measure, dimensionality reduction & topological data analysis
- Lagrangian methods in data-assimilation & predictability
- Transport in non-autonomous dynamical systems defined on a finite time interval
- Nonholonomic dissipative dynamical systems
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Dr Efthalia Chatzisymeon
Chancellor’s Fellow
Research interests include treatment of persistent micro-pollutants, such as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), process sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA), eco-toxicity and estrogenicity measurements of water/wastewater environmental samples, electrochemical oxidation, disinfection technologies, industrial, agro-industrial and sewage wastewater treatment, photocatalytic oxidation and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for water/wastewater treatment.
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Dr Lyuba Chumakova
RSE/Scottish Government Personal Research Fellow
Research in applied and computational mathematics.
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Dr Dimitrios Gerogiorgis
Lecturer
Specialties include:
- Pharmaceutical Process Systems Engineering
- Oil & Gas and Energy Systems Modelling and Optimisation
- High-Temperature Materials Processing Optimisation
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Dr Benjamin Goddard
Lecturer
My research combines mathematical modelling, numerics and rigorous analysis to tackle a range of interdisciplinary problems. These problems are generally complex (with phenomena that emerge from a collection of interacting objects) and multiscale (with important features at multiple scales, e.g. in time or space).
My current research focuses on three main areas:
- Complex fluids and soft matter
- Quantum molecular dynamics
- Electronic structure theory
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Prof Vasileios Koutsos
Professor
Research interests focus around Soft Nanostructures, Surfaces and Interfaces, and main research interests include the following themes: Self-assembly and self-organisation of polymers and nanoparticles on surfaces and interfaces, mechanics of materials with emphasis on nanostructures, adhesion, tribology and contact mechanics. Particular emphasis is laid on using the atomic force microscope (AFM) as an advanced multipurpose tool to probe not only the nanometer-scale morphology but also the nanomechanical, physicochemical, adhesive and frictional properties of surfaces, ultra-thin films, nanostructures and nanomaterials for both fundamental studies and applications (chemical industry, manufacturing, biotechnology & biomedicine, micro/nanoelectronics).
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Dr Timm Krueger
Chancellor's Fellow
Research interests include particle sorting and separation for the diagnosis of diseases, the lattice-Boltzmann method and its applications, suspension rheology and the mechanisms affecting the viscosity of dense suspensions, and modelling and simulation of complex fluids such as emulsions, suspensions of deformable particles or red blood cells in microfluidic devices.
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Professor Ben Leimkuhler
Chair in Applied Mathematics
I study fundamental principles underpinning algorithms for dynamical simulation. My recent work has included: accelerated sampling of molecular dynamics; extended variable (e.g. Andersen/Nose) molecular dynamics; geometric integrators for physical and chemical applications, including Coulombic N-body dynamics with close encounters, constrained dynamics, rigid body systems; hard-sphere billiards; time/coordinate transformations for adaptive geometric integration; multiple time-scale integration methods based on averaging; applications of molecular algorithms in materials simulation and bio-molecular modelling.
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Professor Mark Linne
Chair in Combustion Engines
My research covers development of advanced laser diagnostics and their application to important flow fields, in order to develop better understanding and to support the development of predictive models. Recently I have focused mostly on fuel sprays and their “near field” dynamics (e.g. “spray formation”, also called “primary breakup” of the liquid jet). This research spans from very basic jets that intentionally isolate one breakup mechanism at a time (i.e. turbulence, shear, cavitation etc., to support the development of predictive models) to more applied jets (i.e. correlation of interior flows observed with optical tips with breakup). We sometimes study more realistic sprays in high pressure and temperature spray chambers and we include the effects of physical and chemical properties of fuels (i.e. alternative fuels). Our laser diagnostics work has recently focused on short-pulse (pico-and femto-second) lasers and the techniques we are working on include ballistic imaging, time gated optical sectioning, and most recently short pulse coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (short pulse CARS).
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Dr Tom MacGillivray
Senior Research Fellow
Current research interests:
- Development of novel image processing algorithms for use in cutting-edge medical imaging and clinical research
- Retinal image analysis combining multiple modes of scanning - fundus camera, Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope, OCT, Auto Fluorescence
- Advance retinal analysis algorithm development - see VAMPIRE project for more details
- Retinal imaging derived biomarker identification for neurodegeneration and systemic disease
- Hub specialist equipment and expertise for performing retinal imaging and analysis via the Clinical Research Imaging Centre and CCBS - creating a world-leading Retinal Imaging Core Lab
- Engage with Industry in improving the acquisition and broadening the application of retinal imaging
- Develop retinal imaging as an effective way of monitoring disease severity or progression in neurodegeneration and other disease for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
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Dr James Maddison
Lecturer in Applied Maths
Research interests include geophysical fluid dynamics, particularly relating to ocean dynamics and ocean eddies, and numerical methods, particularly relating to high resolution ocean modelling. More recent interests include the application of automated code generation to the study of ocean inverse problems.
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Professor Davide Marenduzzo
Personal Chair in Computational Biophysics
Research interests centre on the areas of biological physics and soft condensed matter physics. In biological physics, I am interested in modelling DNA at several levels of complexity, either within bacteria or in eukaryotes, where it is associated with histones to form chromatin, and, at a larger scale, chromosomes. In soft matter, I am interested in liquid crystals and related materials, and the development of large scale simulation methods to study emulsions (droplets of water in liquid crystals, or of liquid crystals in water), as well as colloid-liquid crystal composites. Projects of interest address the phase beheviour, hydrodynamics, rheology and electric-field switching of these liquid crystal based materials.
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Dr Brian Peterson
Lecturer
My research is in laser and other optical based diagnostics to study the physics of reacting and non-reacting flows. The majority of my work is studying the turbulence transport, mixing, and combustion within internal combustion (IC) engines. The internal flow in engines are often amongst the most-complicated flows in technical applications today; they are non-stationary, yet periodic, turbulent flows that undergo rapid compression, expansion and gas exchange, which includes combustion and, in the case of direct-injection, two-phase flows with phase change. I am particular interested in advancing diagnostics that provide quantitative multi-parameter and multi-dimensional measurements to study the flow physics. I am an experimentalist, but enjoy working together with numerical partners to form strong teams that jointly address the challenges in turbulent flows and combustion science.
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Professor Jason Reese
Regius Chair of Engineering
My research activities focus on multiscale fluids engineering systems: nano- and microfluidics, interfacial and other non-continuum flows, high-speed (rarefied) aerodynamics, and rapid granular/gas flows. Multiscale and multiphysics dynamics is characteristic of these areas of emerging technological importance, but affect the overall behaviour of the fluid flows in poorly-understood ways. This makes their simulation, design and control extremely difficult. The dynamics of the constituent fluid particles or molecules is key to understanding the overall flow behaviour. I am investigating new ways of modelling and simulating these flows from both molecular and hydrodynamic viewpoints. In particular, developing theoretical insight into the underlying non-continuum physics, and numerical simulation tools ranging from compressible fluid codes for extended hydrodynamic models through to highly-parallel molecular dynamics and DSMC codes. All of these numerical tools are released open-source in the OpenFOAM software.
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Professor Khellil Sefiane
Chair of Thermophysical Engineering
Research interests include nanofluids and their applications, interfacial processes and capillary phenomena, multiphase flows and microscale heat transfer, wetting and phase change phenomena, and microfluidics and thermal management of microsystems.
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Dr Dong-Hyuk Shin
Lecturer
My research interests lie in the high fidelity simulation of reacting flows and the development of combustion models. More specifically, I am interested in developing robust, highly parallel CFD codes which can handle complex geometries with detailed chemical/fluid-dynamic processes. These codes can be used to simulate combustion processes inside real engines such as gas turbines or internal combustion engines to help design clean and efficient combustion systems. In addition, I am also interested in developing models for various combustion processes such as combustion instability, turbulent flame speeds, mixing of fuel and oxidizer, droplet breakout.
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Dr Jin Sun
Senior Lecturer
Research interests centre on granular materials and multiphase flow.
Our research focuses on mechanics and transport of granular materials and multiphase media. The main thrust is to understand the macroscopic behaviour of such materials from interactions at different spatial/temporal scales and to devise mathematical models for the rheology and dynamics. Multiscale modelling and computation is utilised as a paradigm, under which new methodology and tools are developed to solve the research problems.
- DEM-CFD modelling of gas-solid flow dynamics in fluidised beds
- Algorithms and computing code are being developed for a hybrid simulation approach coupling discrete element (DEM) and computation fluid dynamics (CFD).
- Constitutive modelling of dense granular materials.
- Constitutive models are being developed to link microstructure and particle properties to macroscopic behaviour of dense granular flow.
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Dr Prashant Valluri
Senior Lecturer
My work centres around the development of understanding and models for complex flow patterns to tackle various industrial problems like cleaning, oil-gas transport, slurry transport, distillation, absorption, thermal management of microdevices and biological problems such as deposition of plaque in arteries and growth of cancerous tumors. Research includes multiphase and single-phase fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, stability theory and turbulence, process design and intensification and biological fluid dynamics and material science.
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