The paper “Coupled sloshing in hyperbolic containers suspended as a bifilar pendulum“, co-authored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (University of Colorado, Boulder) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper investigates the coupled dynamics between a sloshing fluid and its container, which is suspended as a bifilar pendulum. The two containers […]
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Alex Close passed his PhD confirmation examination on Friday 27 July. The examiners were Jan Gutowski and Alessandro Torrielli. The project has the title: Variational and Hamiltonian techniques for plasma kinetic theory. The PhD supervisor of Alex is Cesare Tronci.
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A Surrey team, comprising Carina Dunlop, Jim Allen, Euan Littlejohns, Matthew Bailey, and Gianne Derks, are attending ECMTB 2016 this week, 11-15 July. Carina, Jim, Euan, and Gianne are giving talks, Matthew is presenting a poster, and Gianne is organiser of a minisymposium on Mathematical Pharmacology. ECMTB is the 2016 joint meeting of the European […]
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The journal Studies in Applied Mathematics has announced that four papers have been chosen as Highlights of the year 2015. One of these papers is “Breakdown of the Whitham modulation theory and the emergence of dispersion“, authored by Tom Bridges. A link to the paper is here.
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The paper “Adaptation of f-wave finite volume methods to the Boonkasame–Milewski non-Boussinesq two-layer shallow interfacial sloshing equations coupled to the vessel motion”, sole-authored by Hamid Alemi Ardakani, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids and Structures. In the paper f-wave finite-volume methods for the reduced two-layer inviscid, incompressible and immiscible shallow interfacial […]
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Anne Skeldon is in Boston this week (11-15 July) for the SIAM Life Sciences Meeting. which is being held in conjunction with the 2016 SIAM annual meeting. She is an invited speaker in the minisymposium “Advances in modelling sleep-wake behaviour and circadian rhythms“, giving a talk on “Patterns of sleep-behaviour: from maps to naps“, based […]
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