Project status
In progress
Duration
Open-ended
Research in the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics
Details of the research areas currently being studied by our group.
Solid mechanics
- People: Chris Budd
- Structural Mechanics
- Structural Optimization
- Geomechanics
- Discontinuous Dynamics
Fluid mechanics
People: Paul Milewski, Jonathan Evans, Phil Trinh
Water Waves
Magneto-Hydrodynamics
Exponential Asymptotics
Complex Fluids
Geophysical Fluids
Some recent papers: Ratcheting droplet pairs, Nematohydrodynamics for Colloidal Self-Assembly and Transport Phenomena, Dynamics, emergent statistics, and the mean-pilot-wave potential of walking droplets, Hydroelastic solitary waves with constant vorticity, Quasi-normal free-surface impacts, capillary rebounds and application to Faraday walkers
Soft matter
- People: Anton Souslov
- Liquid Crystals
- 2D materials
- Nano-materials
- Some recent papers: Order Reconstruction for Nematics on Squares and Hexagons: A Landau--de Gennes Study, Uniaxial versus biaxial character of nematic equilibria in three dimensions, One-dimensional theoretical analysis of coupling and confinement effects on the cybotactic clusters of bent-core nematic liquid crystals
Multi-scale methods
- People: Johannes Zimmer, Kirill Cherednichenko
- Stochastic DEs
Probabilistic methods for PDEs
Some recent papers: Computing diffusivities from particle models out of equilibrium, Travelling waves for a Frenkel-Kontorova chain, Canonical structure and orthogonality of forces and currents in irreversible Markov chains
Industrial applied mathematics
- People: Chris Budd
- Links with ECMI, MI-NET
Links with National Grid, Met Office, Airbus, PepsiCo, Shoemaster, Heathrow, Thales, Ford, DSTL, Mondelez, BT