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Profile summary

Proactive researcher and lecturer in mechanical engineering with over 15 years experience in research and teaching at under-graduate and post-graduate levels. Research interest in thermo-fluids and computational engineering of multi-scale and multi-phase soft matter and interfacial flows.

Published over 56 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and refereed conference proceedings. Successfully won 34 research grants, awards and studentships. Led course innovation and development underpinned by research and scholarly activities. Supervised over 59 B.Eng. and M.Eng. dissertations, 22 M.Sc. dissertations and 16 Ph.D. theses.

Professional memberships

Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Supervised research degrees

Supervised 16 Ph.D. research student projects spanning across a range of applications in engineering, physical and biological sciences. Successfully graduated 13 Ph.D. research students while the remaining 3 are at various stages of completion.

Teaching interests

  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Engineering Mathematics
  • Software Engineering and Computing
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Aerodynamics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

Academic qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Heriot-Watt University

20112012

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

20002004

M.Eng. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

19961999

Research Interests

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Multi-phase flows
  • Free-surface flows
  • Soft matter liquids
  • Interfacial flows
  • Thin liquid films
  • Rivulets
  • Droplets
  • Sprays
  • Coating
  • Rheology
  • Marangoni effects
  • Wetting and de-wetting contact lines
  • Mixing and sloshing
  • Splat morphologies
  • Cold and thermal sprays
  • Laser spots and melts
  • Evaporation of liquids
  • Solidification of liquids and phase change of crystal structures
  • Porous media flow
  • Ferro-magnetic fluids
  • Continuous oscillatory baffled reactors
  • Marine biology - tropical and cold water corals and coralline algae
  • Seawater air conditioning (SWAC)
  • Homogenisation and upscaling
  • Non-linear partial differential equations
  • Multigrid methods and convergence acceleration
  • Minimisation and optimisation
  • Adaptive local mesh refinement
  • Adaptive time integration
  • Smoothed particle hydrodynamics
  • Algorithms
  • Machine learning and evolutionary algorithms
  • High performance computing

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