Materials modelling and complex flows

Our activities in this area encompass a range of modelling research in the process seamlessly crossing temporal, spatial and disciplinary boundaries.

The meso-scopic simulation method used for our complex flow simulation work is the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) - a novel multi-scaling, multi-physics mesoscopic-to-continuum technique for isotropic and anisotropic fluids alike, LBM is suited to modelling multi-component fluids, subject to very complex boundary conditions.

We have been active for over a decade, developing core LBM and ambitious, exciting complex flow applications. We also work on shorter, faster physical scales, developing simulation techniques which compliment LBM, namely coarse-grained Monte-Carlo and molecular dynamics methods, applied, principally, to a range of liquid crystal, polymer and general soft-matter systems.