People
Staff profiles at the University of Leeds that have Fluid Dynamics linked research interests are listed here.
Below you will find details of LIFD’s Management Board. Profiles of Executive Committee members can be found on the About page.
Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics Management Team
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Steve Tobias | Director |
| Cath Noakes | Deputy Director |
| Chris Davies | Deputy Director |
| Claire Savy | Manager |
| Helen Freeman | 2022 cover Manager |
| Kate Robinson | Administrative Assistant |
| Peter Jimack | PhD group leader |
| Jeff Peakall | Experimental group leader |
| Duncan Borman | MSc group leader |
| Onno Bokhove | Industry group leader |
| Rob Sturman | International lead |
| Sepideh Khodaparast | University Academic Fellow in Fluid Dynamics |
| Danielle Bullamore | Student representative |
| Jurgen Schneider | Biomedical representative |
| Amir Khan | Computational group leader |
| Girish Nivarti | Early Career Researcher representative and ECR Forum lead |
Fluid Dynamics Research Groups by School
Chemical and Process Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Process Research and Development; Energy Leeds
Chemistry: Relevant research groups include: Atmospheric and Planetary Chemistry; Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry; Colour and Polymer Science; Process Research and Development
Civil Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Energy and Sustainable Buildings; Water, Public Health and Environmental Engineering
Computing: Relevant research groups include: Artificial Intelligence; Computational Medicine; Computational Science and Engineering
Earth and Environment: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Applied Geoscience; Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics; Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science; Priestley International Centre for Climate
Geography: Relevant research groups include: River Basin Processes and Management; Ecology and Global Change
Medicine and Health/Biology: Relevant research groups include: Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine; Cardiovascular and Sport and Exercise Sciences group
Mechanical Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Thermofluids; Institute of Functional Surfaces
Mathematics: Relevant research groups include: Applied Nonlinear Dynamics; Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Complex Materials and Industrial Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy: Relevant research groups include: Astrophysics; Theoretical Physics
Biological Sciences
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Karen Birch | Prof | Vascular physiology, flow mediated dilation, exercise physiology, exercise and cardiovascular disease, blood flow during exercise: cardiac and peripheral using MRI or Doppler |
| Arun Holden | Professor | Computational models of muscular organs, cardiac physiology, uterine physiology, computational cardiac electrophysiology, magnetic resonance imaging |
| Ralf Richter | Dr | Physical chemistry of biological systems, biointerfaces, soft biological matter, cell dynamics, cell adhesion under flow |
| Bryan Taylor | Dr | Pulmonary vascular function, pulmonary mechanics, lung diffusing capacity, exercise capacity |
Chemical and Process Engineering
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Bayly | Professor | Granular media, multiphase flow, computational fluid dynamics, drying and wetting, drops, colloids, printing, experimental fluid dynamics, discrete element method, pharmaceuticals |
| Antonia Borissova | Dr | Crystallisation, multiphase and multiscale systems |
| Olivier Cayre | Dr | Colloids, emulsions, foams, polymers, interfacial phenomena |
| Valerie Dupont | Dr | Gas solid catalysis, energy efficiency, lean catalytic combustion, low nitrogen emissions, reactor modelling |
| Michael Fairweather | Professor | Turbulence modelling, turbulent reacting flows, turbulent multi-phase flows, nuclear thermal hydraulics, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, slurry flows for waste disposal, experimental hydraulic transport, carbon capture and storage |
| Mojtaba Ghadiri | Professor | Particulate solids, attrition and comminution, droplets, coalescence, supercritical fluid processing spray, granular media, nanopowder processing, agglomeration |
| Bruce Hanson | Prof | Spent fuel management, nuclear materials management , nuclear fuel cycles |
| David Harbottle | Dr | Rheology, colloids, surface chemistry, suspensions, emulsions, surfactant science, multiphase flows |
| Ali Hassanpour | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, distinct element method, granular media, flowability of powders, behaviour of drops under electric field, porosity |
| Peter Heggs | Professor | Boiling, condensation, heat exchangers, heat transfer enhancement |
| Timothy Hunter | Dr | Ultrasonics, foams, emulsions, surfactants, polymers, suspension rheology |
| Xiaodong Jia | Dr | Particle-level modelling and simulations, non-spherical particles, discrete element methods, granular flow, powder flowability, porous media, thermal conductives, coating, melting |
| Xiaojun Lai | Dr | |
| Tariq Mahmud | Dr | Multiscale process modelling, computational fluid dynamics, crystallisation, spray drying |
| Xiaoan Mao | Dr | Experimental fluid dynamics, thermoacoustic energy system, heat exchangers, thermal storage |
| Frans Muller | Prof | Kinetic modelling, mixing, multiphase reactions, thixotropic fluids, flow field validation, thermodynamics, flow chemistry, slow flow reactors |
| Andrew Mullis | Professor | Solidification, crystallisation, phase-field simulation |
| Andrew Ross | Dr | Bioenergy, hydrothermal processing of biomass, biofuels |
| Alison Tomlin | Professor | Combustion, air quality, renewable energy technologies, small-scale wind energy, renewable fuels in transport |
| Mi Wang | Professor | Process tomography and sensing, complex process and multiphase flow measurement and imaging |
| Kejun Wu | Dr | Microfluids, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, ionic liquids, heat and mass transfer |
| Bao Hua Xu | Dr |
Chemistry
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Kee | Dr | Hydrogels, soft matter, astrobiology |
| Long Lin | Professor | Speciality polymers, novel dyes and pigments, complex fluids |
Civil Engineering
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Duncan Borman | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, environmental flows, multiphase flows, mathematical modelling, hydraulic modelling, wastewater modelling, mixing, moving boundaries, free surfaces |
| Miller Camargo-Valero | Dr | Wastewater treatment, sewage sludge management, water and sanitation, wastewater reuse in agriculture |
| Xiaohui Chen | Dr | Mixture-coupling theory, THBMC (Thermo-Hydro-Bio-Mechanical-Chemical) modelling, nuclear waste disposal, groundwater pollution and contaminated land, reactive transport modelling |
| Louise Fletcher | Dr | Aerobiology, waste management, control of pathogens indoors and outdoors |
| Amirul Khan | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, particle dispersion in turbulent flows, Lattice Boltzmann method, numerical optimisation, medical flow |
| Fleur Loveridge | Dr | Heat decarbonisation, ground heat storage, climate and vegetation interactions, soil permability |
| Nikolaos Nikitas | Dr | Aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, experimental dynamics |
| Catherine Noakes | Professor | Indoor air quality, airborne infection, ventilation, building performance, computational fluid dynamics, air quality and pollution, decontamination, bioaerosols, health impacts, risk models |
| Simon Rees | Dr | Geothermal heating and cooling, energy and renewable systems, thermal energy storage, room hwat transfer |
| Yong Sheng | Dr | Numerical modelling, energy and CO2 storage |
| Andrew Sleigh | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, river flow, flood modelling, wastewater treatment |
| Mark Trigg | Dr | Water related risk, hydrodynamics, hydrology, rivers, flood plains, flood hazard, modelling, remote sensing |
Computing
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Toni Lassila | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, uncertainty quantification, cardiovascular modelling |
| Peter Bollada | Dr | Phase field, alloy solidifaction, complex fluids, non-equilibrium thermodynamics |
| Alejandro Frangi | Professor | Modelling and analysis of cardiovascular flows and biomechanics from medical imaging, cardiovascular medical device modelling, in silico trials of medical devices, machine learning in fluid dynamics |
| David Head | Dr | Biofilms, viscoelasticity of fibre networks, computational biophysics |
| Miranda Horne | Ms | Environment, Fundamental Fluid Dynamics, Capacity and Knowledge in Fluid Dynamics, Health |
| Peter Jimack | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, multigrid methods, scientific computing |
| Arash Rabbani | Dr | Fluid flow modelling in porous media, 3-D image segmentation, machine learning, Digital reconstruction and characterisation of porous material. |
| Thomas Ranner | Dr | Finite element methods, moving interfaces, free boundary problems, undulatory locomotion of microswimmers |
| Ali Sarrami Fouroushani | Dr | Cardiovascular Biomechanics; Biofluids; Biotransport; Thrombosis; Medical Device; In-silico Clinical Trials; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Finite Element Methods; Uncertainty Quantification |
| Mark Walkley | Dr | Computational modelling, finite element method, mesh generation, time integration, parallel computing |
Earth and Environment
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Cathryn Birch | Dr | Tropical meteorology, convection, severe weather, monsoons, the water cycle, land-atmosphere interactions, convection-permitting numerical weather models |
| Alan Blyth | Professor | Cloud physics, convection, atmospheric observations, flooding, weather forecasting |
| Steven Boeing | Dr | Atmospheric flows, moist convection, plumes, thermals, large-eddy simulation, boundary layer meteorology |
| Ian Brooks | Professor | Boundary-layer meteorology, air-sea interactions, turbulent processes, polar boundary layers |
| Helen Burns | Dr | Numerical modelling, climate dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics |
| Ralph Burton | Dr | Numerical weather prediction models, atmospheric dispersion, convection, orographic flow, volcano plumes |
| Ken Carslaw | Professor | Aerosols, cloud physics, climate change, climate modelling, air pollution |
| Chris Davies | Professor | Geodynamics, geodynamo theory, convection, core-mantle interactions, high-performance computing, numerical methods |
| Leif Denby | Dr | Atmospheric flows, computational fluid dynamics, convective clouds, LES modelling |
| Susanna Ebmeier | Dr | Volcanology, volcanic emissions, source separation, satellite remote sensing |
| David Ferguson | Dr | Magmatic processes, volcanic processes, volcanic plumes, magmatism within the Earth system |
| Paul Field | Professor | Convection, clouds, precipitation, organised weather systems |
| Quentin Fisher | Professor | Geomechanics, petrophysics, petroleum engineering |
| Alan Gadian | Dr | Meteorology, microphysics of clouds, atmospheric numerical modelling, atmospheric dynamics |
| Mohamed Gouiza | Dr | Geological processes, geodynamic/numerical modelling, lithosphere deformation |
| Carlos Grattoni | Dr | Displacement processes in reservoir rocks, low permeability rocks, petrophysical properties and flow, porosity, permeability, capillary pressure |
| Dave Hodgson | Professor | Sedimentology, flux of sediment from continents to oceans |
| Gareth Keevil | Dr | Experimental fluid dynamics, experimental sedimentology, imaging of fluid dynamics, applications of lasers in fluid dynamics, application of particle imaging velocimetry |
| Phil Livermore | Dr | Geophysics, modelling the Earth's core, geomagnetism, numerical modelling |
| Piroska Lorinczi | Dr | Petroleum reservoirs, reservoir simulation, numerical modelling |
| Graham Mann | Dr | Stratospheric composition, volcanic impacts on climate, aerosol microphysics modelling, polar stratospheric clouds, mineral dust influences |
| Vernon Manville | Dr | Catastrophic flooding, sedimentology, lahars, debris avalanches |
| John Marsham | Professor | Tropical meteorology, atmospheric convection, weather and climate, monsoons, land-atmosphere interactions |
| Amanda Maycock | Dr | Climate science, climate change, climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics, chemistry-climate interactions |
| Bill McCaffrey | Professor | Clastic sedimentary, sediment transport, experimental modelling, turbidity currents |
| Stephen Mobbs | Professor | Mesoscale meteorology, boundary layer dynamics, chemical transport |
| Jon Mound | Dr | Geodynamics, geomagnetism, Earth's core, core-mantle interactions |
| Nigel Mountney | Prof | Geological processes, sedimentology, fluvial processes, numerical modelling |
| Bill Murphy | Dr | Landslides, engineering geology |
| Benjamin Murray | Prof | Atmospheric dynamics, aerosols, clouds, aerosol-cloud interactions |
| Doug Parker | Professor | Meteorology, weather and climate, convective storms, tropical meteorology, monsoons, atmospheric dynamics, gravity currents, baroclinic flows, air/sea interactions, waves in rotating fluids, marine transport, quasi-geostrophic flows, topographic effects, air quality and pollution |
| Jeff Peakall | Professor | Sedimentology, particle-laden flows, experimental fluid dynamics, submarine channels, injectites |
| Sandra Piazolo | Professor | Geological processes, fluid-rock interaction, numerical modelling, experiments |
| Colin Pitts | Dr | Water pollution |
| Alex Rap | Dr | Aerosol radiative forcing, ozone radiative forcing, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, contrails |
| Mark Richardson | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, environmental modelling, multiphase flows, numerical modelling, high performance computing, parallel computing |
| Andrew Ross | Dr | Atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer meteorology, mountain meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, convection over orography, fog formation, gravity currents, cold pools, tropical cyclones |
| Juliane Schwendike | Dr | Tropical meteorology, tropical cyclones, convection, high-impact weather, monsoons, large-scale circulations |
| Bruce Yardley | Professor | Crustal fluid compositions, formation of hydrothermal ores, water residence in the deep crust, fluid-rock interactions |
Geography
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Carrivick | Dr | Glaciers, outburst floods, arctic and alpine hydrology, glacier lakes |
| Emanuel Gloor | Professor | Global carbon cycle, Amazonian climate, atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements, geophysical modelling of atmospheric transport and climate |
| Brian Irvine | Dr | Sedimentology, sediment transport, turbulent flow processes, water resource management, flood frequency analysis |
| Megan Klaar | Dr | Natural flood management, hydroecology, extreme hydrological events, water resource management |
| Mark Smith | Dr | Rivers, floods, hydrology, glaciers |
Mathematics
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Barker | Dr | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, tidal interactions between planets and stars, instabilities and turbulence in astrophysics, extrasolar planets |
| Cedric Beaume | Dr | Instabilities, transition to turbulence, doubly diffusive convection, dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation |
| Onno Bokhove | Professor | Geophysical fluid dynamics, experimental fluid dynamics, weather prediction models, Hamiltonian fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics |
| Chinmay Das | Dr | Polymers, biophysics, soft matter, rheology |
| Mike Evans | Dr | Complex fluids, viscoelasticity, mathematical modelling, rheometry, mathematical modelling |
| Sam Falle | Professor | Compressible flow, magneto-gas dynamics, detonations, dynamical systems |
| Stephen Griffiths | Dr | Atmospheric flows, internal waves, ocean processes, rotating flows, shallow water flows, stratified flows, magnetohydrodynamics, linear and nonlinear waves, ocean tides, waves in rotating fluids, numerical modelling |
| Oliver Harlen | Dr | Viscoelasticity, colloids, suspensions, non-Newtonian fluids, inkjet printing, gravity currents, finite element method, lubrication theory, liquid bridges |
| Rainer Hollerbach | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, dynamo theory, hydrodynamic stability theory |
| David Hughes | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, astrophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, instability theory, dynamo theory, turbulence, numerical modelling |
| Jitse Niesen | Dr | Dynamical systems, numerical analysis |
| Chris Jones | Professor | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetic field generation in the Earth and other planets, thermal convection in rotating and magnetic systems, winds in the giant planets, the solar dynamo, pattern formation |
| Mark Kelmanson | Professor | Thin-films, coating, ophthalmic flows |
| Evy Kersalé | Dr | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, stellar flows, magnetohydrodynamics |
| Daniel Lesnic | Professor | Inverse problems, boundary element method, heat and mass transfer, porous media, critical Stokes number |
| Girish Nivarti | Dr | Rotating convection, turbulent zonal jets, flame propagation, scalar transport |
| Sam Pegler | Dr | Viscous dynamics, glacial mechanics, porous media, free-boundary problems, fluid-structure interactions |
| Alastair Rucklidge | Prof | Pattern formation, Faraday waves, nonlinear dynamics, chaotic dynamics |
| Rob Sturman | Dr | Fluid mixing, dynamical systems |
| Steven Tobias | Professor | Dynamo theory, Bernard convection, moist convection, plumes, Taylor-Couette flow, double diffusive convection, waves in rotating fluids, magneto convection, vortex dynamics, chaos, turbulence, instabilities, mixing and dispersion, computational methods |
Mechanical Engineering
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Barker | Dr | Carbon capture, geothermal systems, corrosion in oil and gas |
| Derek Bradley | Professor | Thermodynamics, combustion, energy |
| Neil Bressloff | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, biomedical engineering and design, valves |
| Greg De Boer | Dr | Numerical methods, aerospace design, multiscale modelling of lubricated contacts, fluid structure interactions, computational fluid dynamics |
| Carl Gilkeson | Dr | High and low speed aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, flow control, flight mechanics, orbital mechanics, aerobiology |
| Nik Kapur | Professor | Heat transfer, experimental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, droplets, sprays, coating, material characterisation |
| Sepideh Khodaparast | Dr | Experimental fluid mechanics, applied fluid mechanics, microfluids, nanofluids, surfactant science |
| Hugh Rice | Dr | Acoustic backscatter, order lattice theory, doppler and time-domain velocimetry, in-line rheometry, numerical methods, mathematical modelling |
| Andrew Shires | Dr | Aerodynamics, wing design, wind tunnel test techniques, flow control techniques |
| Jon Summers | Dr | Coating, wetting, mixing, thin films, thermal management of data centres |
| Harvey Thompson | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, optimisation, two phase flow, printing, drying, coating |
| Mark Wilson | Dr | Multiphase flows, drops, breakup and coalescence, drag reduction, capillary flows, free surface flows, thin flims, lubrication theory, wetting, printing, coating |
| Junfeng Yang | Dr | Thermofluids, combustion kinetics, flame propagation, spray physics, engine combustion, turbulence, complex multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer |
| Andrew Young | Dr | Thermofluids; Heat recovery and Thermal management |
Medicine and Health
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Malenka Bissell | Dr | Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 4D flow MRI, congenital heart disease |
| David Buckley | Prof | Magnetic resonance imaging, measurement of tissue perfusion |
| Erica Dall’Armelina | Dr | Cardiology, cardiovascular imaging, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, |
| John Greenwood | Professor | Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, percutaneous coronary intervention, myocardial infarction |
| Sven Plein | Professor | Biomedical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiology, cardiovascular disease |
| David Russell | Honorary Clinical Associate Professor | Wound healing, lower limb revascularisation |
| Jurgen Schneider | Prof | Magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion MRI |
| Julian Scott | Prof | Cardiovascular imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, Diffusion MRI |
| Stephen Smye | Prof | Mathematical models in medicine and biology, magnetic resonance imaging, electroporation, aerosol physics, reactive hyperaemia |
| Steven Sourbron | Dr | Biomedical imaging, perfusion, imaging biomarkers |
| Paul Stewart | Professor | Cardiovascular science, metabolism, endocrinology |
| Charalampos Tsoumpas | Dr | Tomographic imaging, medical imaging, positron emission tomography, computational modelling |
Physics and Astronomy
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Evans | Prof | Microbubbles, microfluids, nanoparticles |
| Thomas Hartquist | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, dusty plasma, diffuse astrophysical media |
| Julian Pittard | Dr | Colliding stellar winds, computational fluid dynamics, dynamics of the interstellar medium, star formation, stellar feedback |
| Sven Van Loo | Dr | Hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, dusty plasma, star formation, numerical simulations |
| Chris Wareing | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, astrophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics |
