Previous PhD students

Members of the Continuum Mechanics Group have supervised a number of PhD students over the years.

A list of those students who have submitted theses to the University repository are below. (Some have not done this and they are not listed here.)

• Nikolaos Ladas (2024). Qualitative theory for nonlinear non-local reaction-diffusion equations. Supervisor: John Meyer.
• Callan Corbett (2023). A numerical study of the shape mode oscillation of microbubbles in a viscous compressible liquid. Supervisors: Qianxi Wang and Warren Smith.
• Eoin O'Brien (2023). The viscoelastic effects on the evolution of a three-dimensional microbubble. Supervisors: Qianxi Wang and Warren Smith.
• Atticus Hall-McNair (2022). Elastohydrodynamics of actuated slender bodies in Stokes flows: methods, tools, and simulations of microscale motility. Supervisors: David Smith and Meurig Gallagher.
• Abdullah Alhushaybari (2020). Convective and absolute instability of viscoelastic liquid jets. Supervisor: Jamal Uddin.
• Mehdi Hassan Mahmud (2020). Microbubble dynamics near rigid boundaries. Supervisor: Qianxi Wang.
• Alex Tisbury (2019). The evolution of fronts in kpp-type reaction-diffusion models with cut-off reaction rates. Supervisors: Alexandra Tzella and David Needham.
• Wenke Liu (2018). Bubble dynamics in a compressible viscous liquid. Supervisor: Qianxi Wang.
• Paul Griffiths (2016). Hydrodynamic stability of non-Newtonian rotating boundary-layer flows. Supervisor: Sharon Stephen.
• Dominic Henry (2016). The Stability of Multi-Layer Curtain Coating. Supervisor: Jamal Uddin.
• Stewart McGovern (2016). The linearised dambreak problem. Supervisors: John Leach and David Needham.
• Christopher Bennett (2015). Solitary and transitional waves in two-layer microchannel flows. Supervisor: Grigory Sisoev.
• Gokcen Cekic (2015). Wave regimes and mass transfer in two-layer falling films. Supervisor: Grigory Sisoev.
• Mark Esson (2015). Applications of cavitation dynamics in a three fluid system. Supervisor: David Leppinen.
• Meurig Gallagher (2015). The initial development of a jet caused by fluid, body and free surface interaction. Supervisor: David Needham.
• Esen Hanaç (2015). The large-time solution of nonlinear evolution equations. Supervisors: John Leach and David Needham.
• Kawa Manmi (2015). Three dimensional acoustic microbubble dynamics near rigid boundary. Supervisor: Qianxi Wang.
• Jonathan Simmons (2015). Modelling and simulation of the formation of single phase and compound fluid volumes. Supervisors: Yulii Shikhmurzaev and James Sprittles.
• Muhammad Faheem Afzaal (2014). Breakup and instability analysis of compound liquid jets. Supervisor: Jamal Uddin.
• Abdullah Madhi Alsharif (2014). Instability of non-uniform viscoelastic liquid jets. Supervisors: Stephen Decent and Jamal Uddin.
• Vipin George Michael (2013). Effects of passive porous walls on the first Mack mode instability of hypersonic boundary layers over a sharp cone. Supervisor: Sharon Stephen.
• Muhammad Moshin (2013). On asymptotical & numerical analyses of liquid jets. Supervisors: Stephen Decent and Jamal Uddin.
• Rachan Bassi (2011). Absolute instability in curved liquid jets. Supervisors: Stephen Decent and Mark Simmons.
• Christopher Gurney (2010). The stability and control of curved liquid jet break-up. Supervisors: Stephen Decent and Mark Simmons.
• Zahir Hussain (2010). Stability and transition of three-dimensional rotating boundary layers. Supervisor: Sharon Stephen.
• Iver Ogilvy (2010). Fluid dynamics of underwater explosions. Supervisor: John Blake.
• James Sprittles (2010). Dynamic wetting/dewetting processes in complex liquid-solid systems. Supervisor: Yulii Shikhmurzaev.
• Geoffrey Curtiss (2009). Non-linear, non-spherical bubble dynamics near a two fluid interface. Supervisor: John Blake.
• Li Lin (2008). Centrifugal instability of the wake dominated curved compressible mixing layers. Supervisor: Sharon Stephen.
• Lucy Partridge (2006). An experimental and theoretical investigation into the break-up of curved liquid jets in the prilling process. Supervisors: Stephen Decent and Mark Simmons.
• Anthony Pearson (2003). Hydrodynamics of jet impact in a collapsing bubble. Supervisors: John Blake and Steve Otto.