Current PhD students

I currently supervise two PhD students:

• Mr Nathan Kirk is investigating developing new numerical methods for simulating cardiac rhythms
• Mr Sarfraz is researching advanced modelling techniques for elastohydrodynamic lubrication problems.

Former students

I have previously been involved in the supervision of two other PhD students. Both projects came out of the EHL modelling described on the projects pages.

• Dr Hongqiang Lu: High Order Finite Element Solution of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Problems. In this thesis the use of high order Discontinuous Galerkin finite elements was compared to very fine grid finite difference multilevel schemes for both line and point contact cases.
• Dr Daniel Hart: Adjoint Error Estimation for Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication. In this thesis the use of adjoint techniques for both predicting a quantity of interest, and for driving grid adaptivity were considered. For EHL this involved the novel consideration of how to treat the position of the free boundary.

Staff

I also help manage the Marie Curie research fellowship (with Shell Global Solutions) of Dr Cato Tan.

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