Current Students

  1. PhD: Ryan Sunderland (University of Nottingham, September 2023-present).
  2. PhD: Nicholas Harbour, Mathematical modelling of glioblastoma (University of Nottingham, September 2022-present).
  3. PhD: Adam Blakey, Finite elements for fluid-structure interaction problems (University of Nottingham, September 2020-present).
  4. PhD: Jiamu Jiang, Movement of ions in neurons and other structures (University of Nottingham, September 2019-present).

Past Students

  1. PhD: Richard Widdowson, Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for radiation transport problems (University of Nottingham, September 2018-2023).
  2. PhD: Harry Wells, Moving mesh virtual element methods (University of Nottingham, 2019-2023).
  3. PhD: Thomas Radley, Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the linear Boltzmann transport equation (University of Nottingham, September 2018-2023).
  4. PhD: Bethan Morris, Mathematical modelling of heterogeneity in brain cancer to inform targeted therapy (University of Nottingham, September 2017-2022).
  5. PhD: Alistair Delboyer, Mathematical modelling of the merging of turbulent plumes with applications to heat pump efflux (University of Nottingham, 2017-2022).
  6. PhD: Christopher Miles, Solar cell computational phase field modelling (University of Nottingham, 2015-2020).
  7. PhD: Mithilan Sivapuratharasu, Inertial effects on thin-film wave structures with imposed surface shear (University of Nottingham, 2013-2017).
  8. PhD: Keeran Brabazon, Investigation of nonlinear multigrid for nonlinear second order partial differential operators (University of Leeds, 2011-2015).
  9. PhD: Feng Wei Yang, Multigrid solution methods for nonlinear time-dependent systems (University of Leeds, 2010-2014).
  10. PhD: Andrzej Warzynski, Runge-Kutta residual distribution schemes (University of Leeds, 2009-2013).
  11. PhD: Nathan Kirk, Computational simulation of coupled electromechanical cardiac activity (University of Leeds, 2008-2012).
  12. PhD: Robert Marlow, Moving mesh methods for solving parabolic partial differential equations University of Leeds, 2007-2011).
  13. PhD: Netsanet Mebrate, High order fluctuation splitting schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws (University of Leeds, 2003-2007).
  14. PhD: Dominic Pajak (for final 6 months), Specification of microprocessor instruction set architectures: ARM6 case study (University of Leeds, 1999-2005).
  15. PhD: Daniel Schostak (for final 6 months), Methodology for the formal specification of RTL RISC processor designs (with particular reference to the ARM6) (University of Leeds, 1999-2003).
  16. PhD: Steven Leary, Least squares methods with adjustable nodes for steady hyperbolic PDEs (University of Reading, 1995-1999).

Postgraduate Research Examining


External Examiner

  1. PhD: Simone Appella, Application of moving mesh methods for the solution of partial differential equations, University of Bath, 2022.
  2. PhD: Craig McDonald, Moving mesh algorithms for Q-tensor models of liquid crystals, University of Strathclyde, 2017.
  3. PhD: Anna Watkins, A moving mesh finite element method and its application to population dynamics, University of Reading, 2017.
  4. PhD: Yang Hai, Absorption and metabolism of fatty acid: inverse problems and uncertainty studies, University of Greenwich, 2016.
  5. PhD: Mark Payne, Efficient finite element methods for the time-dependent acoustic wave equation, Heriot-Watt University, 2013.
  6. PhD: John Chapman, On discontinuous Galerkin methods for singularly perturbed and incompressible miscible displacement problems, University of Durham, 2012.
  7. PhD: David Baker, Characteristic-based methods for modelling neutron transport, University of Nottingham, 2012.
  8. PhD: Jonathan Higham, Development of novel computational methods to simulate excitation waves in the whole rabbit heart, University of Manchester, 2012.
  9. PhD: Terhemen Aboiyar, Non-oscillatory finite volume methods for conservation laws on unstructured grids, University of Leicester, 2008.
  10. PhD: Paul Jelfs, A C-property satisfying RKDG scheme with application to the morphodynamic equations, University of Reading, 2008.
  11. PhD: David Hunt, Mesh-free radial basis function methods for advection-dominated diffusion problems, University of Leicester, 2006.
  12. PhD: Pilar Brufau, Simulación bidimensional de flujos hidrodinámicos transitorios en geometrías irregulares, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2000.

Internal Examiner

  1. PhD: Anne Boschman, Fundamental theories for bulk-surface interaction: evolving interfaces, phase-field adhesion and mixed-dimensional flows, University of Nottingham, 2023.
  2. PhD: Connor Rourke, Mixed finite element approximation of porous media flows, University of Nottingham, 2023.
  3. PhD: Sarah Roggendorf, Eliminating the Gibbs phenomenon: the non-linear Petrov-Galerkin method for the convection-diffusion-reaction equation, University of Nottingham, 2019.
  4. PhD: Steven Murphy, Methods for solving discontinuous-Galerkin finite element equations with application to neutron transport, University of Nottingham/University of Toulouse, 2015.
  5. PhD: Sean Lovett, Adaptive mesh refinement for thermal flows and in-situ combustion in porous media, University of Cambridge, 2013.
  6. PhD: Richard Senington, Hybrid meta-heuristics frameworks: A functional approach, University of Leeds, 2013.
  7. PhD: Sarfraz Ahmed, Efficient finite element simulation of full-system elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems, University of Leeds, 2012.
  8. PhD: Rodolfo Allendes Osorio, Managing uncertainty for the display of 3D scientific datasets, University of Leeds, 2010.
  9. PhD: Daniel Hart, Adjoint based error estimation for elastohydrodynamic lubrication, University of Leeds, 2008.
  10. PhD: Jan Rosam, A fully implicit, fully adaptive multigrid method for multiscale phase-field modelling, University of Leeds, 2007.
  11. MRes: Elham Afandizadeh Zargari, Computational analysis of integral And differential formulations of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication film thickness equation, University of Leeds, 2007.
  12. PhD: Hongqiang Lu, High order finite element solution of elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems, University of Leeds, 2006.
  13. PhD: Rene Schneider, Applications of the discrete adjoint method in computational fluid dynamics, University of Leeds, 2006.
  14. PhD: Alison Jones, A projected multigrid method for the solution of non-linear finite element problems on adaptively refined grids, University of Leeds, 2005.
  15. PhD: Rashid Mahmood, Multilevel mesh adaptivity for elliptic boundary value problems in two and three space dimensions, University of Leeds, 2002.