Fluid Mechanics of Cleaning and Decontamination
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​Serafim Bakalis 
School of Chemical Engineering,
University of Birmingham, UK

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  • Research interests related to SIG: physical and numerical modelling in environmental and nano fluids.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of porous media. Moving boundary problems. Moving mesh methods. Application to spreading liquids and contamination.
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Mike Baines
School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences
University of Reading, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: physical and numerical modelling in environmental and nano fluids.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of porous media. Moving boundary problems. Moving mesh methods. Application to spreading liquids and contamination.
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Lorenzo Botto
School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: interaction of solid particles with bubbles and droplets; simulation and experiments on river flocs (both naturally-occurring and for water purification); capillary flows in textiles – X-ray visualization and theory.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics of nanostructured materials (particularly deformable nanoparticles in suspension) & computational multiphase flow DNS.
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Chris Breward
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: mathematical modelling of industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transport of agents and cleansers in porous media.
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Gregory de Boer
School of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Leeds

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John Chew
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Bath, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: fluid dynamics in domestic and industrial cleaning.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of cleaning with bubbles; estimation of yield stress of soft solids using computational fluid dynamics.
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Rob Chilcott
School of Life and Medical Sciences
University of Hertfordshire, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: chemical decontamination.
  • Relevant activities: various in vitro, in vivo, human volunteer and structural models for evaluating decontamination methods.
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Vincent Cregan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Limerick, Ireland

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  • Research interests related to SIG: Cleaning in the pharmaceutical industry, fluid dynamics, surface tension problems.
  • Relevant activities: Nanoscience problems, heat transfer, phase change phenomena, diffusion processes.
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Stuart Clarke
BP Institute and Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: experimental surface, interface and colloid science.
  • Relevant activities: surfactant behaviour, measurement of surface chemistry.
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Mohit Dalwadi
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: modelling of chemical decontamination, fluid mechanics, and industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transport in porous media, surface reactions, moving boundary problems, reaction-diffusion processes.
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Stuart Dalziel
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, UK

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  • Research interests related to SIG: experimental fluid mechanics.
  • Relevant activities: film flow, impinging jet, convective mass transfer from a drop to film flow at surfaces and in capillary fractures.
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Merlin Etzold
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, UK

personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: chemical decontamination of building materials.
  • Relevant activities: experiments and simulations of the decontamination process in material fractures.
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Walter Federle
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge, UK

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  • Research interests related to SIG: animal and plant biomechanics.
  • Relevant activities: bio-adhesion, self-cleaning, anti-adhesive ultra-hydrophobic or superhydrophilic surfaces in nature, biomechanics of insect cleaning structures.
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Ian Griffiths
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford, UK

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Cameron Hall
Department of Engineering Mathematics
University of Bristol, UK
  • Research interests related to SIG: modelling of chemical decontamination and other industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: modelling of reactions at phase boundaries; mass transport coupled with reactions.
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Nik Kapur
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Leeds, UK

personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: fluid mechanics of manufacturing processes.
  • Relevant activities: experimental and computational studies of jets and droplets. Rheology of soft solid materials including industrially relevant polymer and waxes.
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Kristian Kiradjiev
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: mathematical modelling of industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transfer in thin-film spreading, chemical filters, porous media, reaction-diffusion phenomena.
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Andrew Lacey
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University, UK

personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: industrial fluid mechanics.
  • Relevant activities: mathematical modelling of thin-film flow, of flow in porous media, and of diffusion processes.
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Julien Landel
Department of Mathematics
University of Manchester, UK

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  • Research interests related to SIG: environmental and industrial fluid mechanics (mathematical and experimental modelling).
  • Relevant activities: film flow, impinging jet, convective mass transfer from a drop to film flow at surfaces and in capillary fractures.
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Alex Lukyanov
School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences,
University of Reading

personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Environmental fluid mechanics, capillary and nano-flows
  • Relevant activities: Transport in porous media, moving contact lines (macro-microscopic levels), dynamics of complex interfaces.
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Peter Martin 
School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science,
University of Manchester

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  • Research interests related to SIG: Nanomaterials and composites for environmental detoxification
  • Relevant activities: Nanocatalyst synthesis, preparing/characterizing composite materials, catalyst immobilization, fluid flow in porous materials, detoxifying aqueous solutions, photocatalytic reactions of organic materials.
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Omar Matar
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Imperial College London

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  • Research interests related to SIG: Multiphase flows (modelling, simulations and experiments)
  • Relevant activities: Numerical simulations of two-phase flows in the presence of heat transfer, phase change, non-Newtonian rheology, and moving contact lines.
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Draga Pihler-Puzovic
School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Manchester

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  • Research interests related to SIG: experiments and theory of multiphase displacement flows
  • Relevant activities: experiments and simulations of fingering instabilities in two-phase flows in elastic-walled and rigid-walled Hele-Shaw cells.
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Joe Quarini 
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Bristol

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  • Research interests related to SIG: Fluid mechanics of phase changing materials
  • Relevant activities: Transient thermal hydraulic performance of phase-changing flowing slurries in complex topology containment structures.
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Steven Wang
School of Engineering
Newcastle University, UK
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  • Research interests related to SIG: multiphase flows (experiments), solid-liquid separation
  • Relevant activities: phase change, bubbles.
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Andrew Wheatley
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Nanomaterials and composites for environmental detoxification
  • Relevant activities: Nanocatalyst synthesis, preparing/characterizing composite materials, catalyst immobilization, fluid flow in porous materials, detoxifying aqueous solutions, photocatalytic reactions of organic materials.
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Ian Wilson
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: rheology modelling and experimental studies of fouling and cleaning.
  • Relevant activities: flows created by impinging liquid jets; pulsed flow cleaning; rheology of soft solids; adhesion; surface treatment.
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Zhihua Xie
School of Engineering
Cardiff University
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modelling, multiphase flows, and water waves
  • Relevant activities: flows created by impinging liquid jets; Breaking waves, turbulent interfacial flows, liquid film flow, bubbles, droplet impact, jet
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