The North Pole is drifting - here's why
In recent years, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has shifted rapidly away from Canada towards Siberia, necessitating more frequent updates to navigation systems. In a recent...
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Fluids Researchers Contribute to Covid-19 Fight
LIFD academics have participated in recent projects to support the NHS and hospitals in the fight against Covid-19. Simple fix creates coronavirus breathing aids Engineers...
Lights, camera, action… the super-fast world of droplet dynamics
Cameras shooting up to 25,000 frames a second have been used to capture the moment two droplets of liquid come together, opening up research into...
EPSRC delegation meets engineering researchers at Leeds
The LIFD Director and Deputy Director, Prof Steve Tobias and Prof Cath Noakes, alongside some of the EPSRC CDT Fluid Dynamics students from the University...
Professor Alfio Quarteroni Delivers LIFD's 2020 Annual Lecture
On Monday 10th February, the School of Music at the University of Leeds played host to this year's LIFD Annual Lecture. 4.30-5.30pm Talks from Dr...
Universities Minister Chris Skidmore Meets LIFD Researchers on Visit
On Wednesday 15th January, Universities Minister Chris Skidmore came to the University of Leeds as part of a fact-finding visit. At the university's innovation hub, Nexus,...
LIFD Attends 72nd Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in Seattle
Over November 23-26, 2019, colleagues from the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics attended the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics...
Shift in Earth’s magnetic north throws navigators off course
Dr Phil Livermore and colleagues from the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics comment on the magnetic North's behaviour in an article in the Financial Times:...
Maths of a new wave-energy converter
Rogue waves are anomalously high waves that appear rarely in the oceans and are therefore difficult to predict. Understanding their wave height and occurrence is relevant to maritime...
New protocol to inform decision making in flood mitigation
Inspired by the recent elevation in both frequency and public perception of extreme-weather events, a team of researchers in the School of Mathematics, in collaboration...