Research

My research interests are in the solving of numerical problems described by PDEs, in the application of parallel computing and Grid technologies, and in the efficient visualisation of large datasets.

In the following pages my work, past and present, is summarised. Links to papers and talks available online are provided.

• Elastohydrodynamic lubrication - funding from EPSRC, Shell Global Solutions and the DtI

  Description of the physical problem PhD work on variable timestepping and mesh adaptation PhD work on mesh adaptation ROPA work on Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) ROPA work on Parallelism e-Science work on doing all the above on the Grid e-Science Grid Optimisation work - GOSPEL

• Skin - funding from the EPSRC Life Sciences Interface programme and HPC Software programme
  • Modelling of chemical diffusion through the stratum corneum
  • Transient cases modelling flux and lag time
  • Use of periodic meshes for impermeable corneocytes
  • The effects of hexagonal corneocytes
  • Anisotropic meshes and mesh adaptivity
  • Variable coverings
  • Parallel HPC software for Skin

• Volume rendering - funding from the IECOE and the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
  • Production of a module for IRIS Explorer using VTK's Volume Rendering algorithms

• Integrative Biology e-Science project
  • Multivariate visualisation of numerical heart models
  • 3-d visualisation of high resolution MRI datasets - winner of the vizNET Showcase 2008

• Solidification - Dendritic growth
  • Phase field modelling

• ADVISE - Technology Strategy Board funded project
  • Web service oriented distributed visualization

Further information on these projects is available from the CPDE Unit and IRIS Explorer Centre of Excellence webpages

Institute for Computational and Systems Science, School of Computing, University of Leeds