Current Students
- PhD: Ryan Sunderland
(University of Nottingham, September 2023-present).
- PhD: Nicholas Harbour,
Mathematical modelling of glioblastoma
(University of Nottingham, September 2022-present).
- PhD: Adam Blakey,
Finite elements for fluid-structure interaction problems
(University of Nottingham, September 2020-present).
- PhD: Jiamu Jiang,
Movement of ions in neurons and other structures
(University of Nottingham, September 2019-present).
Past Students
- PhD: Richard Widdowson,
Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for radiation transport problems
(University of Nottingham, September 2018-2023).
- PhD: Harry Wells,
Moving mesh virtual element methods
(University of Nottingham, 2019-2023).
- PhD: Thomas Radley,
Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the linear Boltzmann transport equation
(University of Nottingham, September 2018-2023).
- PhD: Bethan Morris,
Mathematical modelling of heterogeneity in brain cancer to inform targeted therapy
(University of Nottingham, September 2017-2022).
- PhD: Alistair Delboyer,
Mathematical modelling of the merging of turbulent plumes with applications to heat pump efflux
(University of Nottingham, 2017-2022).
- PhD: Christopher Miles,
Solar cell computational phase field modelling
(University of Nottingham, 2015-2020).
- PhD: Mithilan Sivapuratharasu,
Inertial effects on thin-film wave structures with imposed surface shear
(University of Nottingham, 2013-2017).
- PhD: Keeran Brabazon,
Investigation of nonlinear multigrid for nonlinear second order partial differential operators
(University of Leeds, 2011-2015).
- PhD: Feng Wei Yang,
Multigrid solution methods for nonlinear time-dependent systems
(University of Leeds, 2010-2014).
- PhD: Andrzej Warzynski,
Runge-Kutta residual distribution schemes
(University of Leeds, 2009-2013).
- PhD: Nathan Kirk,
Computational simulation of coupled electromechanical cardiac activity
(University of Leeds, 2008-2012).
- PhD: Robert Marlow,
Moving mesh methods for solving parabolic partial differential equations
University of Leeds, 2007-2011).
- PhD: Netsanet Mebrate,
High order fluctuation splitting schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws
(University of Leeds, 2003-2007).
- PhD: Dominic Pajak (for final 6 months),
Specification of microprocessor instruction set architectures: ARM6 case study
(University of Leeds, 1999-2005).
- 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).
- PhD: Steven Leary,
Least squares methods with adjustable nodes for steady hyperbolic PDEs
(University of Reading, 1995-1999).
Postgraduate Research Examining
External Examiner
- PhD: Simone Appella,
Application of moving mesh methods for the solution of partial differential equations,
University of Bath, 2022.
- PhD: Craig McDonald,
Moving mesh algorithms for Q-tensor models of liquid crystals,
University of Strathclyde, 2017.
- PhD: Anna Watkins,
A moving mesh finite element method and its application to population dynamics,
University of Reading, 2017.
- PhD: Yang Hai,
Absorption and metabolism of fatty acid: inverse problems and uncertainty studies,
University of Greenwich, 2016.
- PhD: Mark Payne,
Efficient finite element methods for the time-dependent acoustic wave equation,
Heriot-Watt University, 2013.
- PhD: John Chapman,
On discontinuous Galerkin methods for singularly perturbed and incompressible miscible displacement problems,
University of Durham, 2012.
- PhD: David Baker,
Characteristic-based methods for modelling neutron transport,
University of Nottingham, 2012.
- PhD: Jonathan Higham,
Development of novel computational methods to simulate excitation waves in the whole rabbit heart,
University of Manchester, 2012.
- PhD: Terhemen Aboiyar,
Non-oscillatory finite volume methods for conservation laws on unstructured grids,
University of Leicester, 2008.
- PhD: Paul Jelfs,
A C-property satisfying RKDG scheme with application to the morphodynamic equations,
University of Reading, 2008.
- PhD: David Hunt,
Mesh-free radial basis function methods for advection-dominated diffusion problems,
University of Leicester, 2006.
- PhD: Pilar Brufau,
Simulación bidimensional de flujos hidrodinámicos transitorios en geometrías irregulares,
University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2000.
Internal Examiner
- PhD: Anne Boschman,
Fundamental theories for bulk-surface interaction: evolving interfaces, phase-field adhesion and mixed-dimensional flows,
University of Nottingham, 2023.
- PhD: Connor Rourke,
Mixed finite element approximation of porous media flows,
University of Nottingham, 2023.
- PhD: Sarah Roggendorf,
Eliminating the Gibbs phenomenon: the non-linear Petrov-Galerkin method for the convection-diffusion-reaction equation,
University of Nottingham, 2019.
- PhD: Steven Murphy,
Methods for solving discontinuous-Galerkin finite element equations with application to neutron transport,
University of Nottingham/University of Toulouse, 2015.
- PhD: Sean Lovett,
Adaptive mesh refinement for thermal flows and in-situ combustion in porous media,
University of Cambridge, 2013.
- PhD: Richard Senington,
Hybrid meta-heuristics frameworks: A functional approach,
University of Leeds, 2013.
- PhD: Sarfraz Ahmed,
Efficient finite element simulation of full-system elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems,
University of Leeds, 2012.
- PhD: Rodolfo Allendes Osorio,
Managing uncertainty for the display of 3D scientific datasets,
University of Leeds, 2010.
- PhD: Daniel Hart,
Adjoint based error estimation for elastohydrodynamic lubrication,
University of Leeds, 2008.
- PhD: Jan Rosam,
A fully implicit, fully adaptive multigrid method for multiscale phase-field modelling,
University of Leeds, 2007.
- MRes: Elham Afandizadeh Zargari,
Computational analysis of integral And differential formulations of the elastohydrodynamic lubrication film thickness equation,
University of Leeds, 2007.
- PhD: Hongqiang Lu,
High order finite element solution of elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems,
University of Leeds, 2006.
- PhD: Rene Schneider,
Applications of the discrete adjoint method in computational fluid dynamics,
University of Leeds, 2006.
- PhD: Alison Jones,
A projected multigrid method for the solution of non-linear finite element problems on adaptively refined grids,
University of Leeds, 2005.
- PhD: Rashid Mahmood,
Multilevel mesh adaptivity for elliptic boundary value problems in two and three space dimensions,
University of Leeds, 2002.