Materials


The simulation of material properties in production and use helps to optimise industrial processes, predict failure and quantify risk. Where only limited data is available from measurements of material structure, sophisticated analysis is required to retrieve the maximum information content. Simulation and data analysis are also useful tools for the design of devices used in the measurement of material properties.


Current and completed projects in this sector include:

2010/10/01 Isentropic Compression-Release Experiments
2010/08/11 Transport and Reaction Processes in Soil
2010/02/21 Maintenance inspection design software for full-scale industrial systems
2009/11/01 Landing gear modelling
2009/07/01 Reaction-diffusion mechanisms in decontamination
2009/04/20 Mathematical Modelling of an Ultrasound Sensor for Bioprocesses
2009/04/20 Modelling of diving springboards
2008/10/01 Special fluid dynamical effects in sport
2008/09/08 Reliability assessment using Bayesian criticality analysis
2007/10/01 Flow in melting foam layers
2007/10/01 Ion diffusion processes during manufacture and processing of float glass
2006/09/05 Dynamic homogenization for random and pre-stressed composites
2005/12/05 Acoustic scattering from a strained region
2004/08/04 Modelling of melt on spinning wheels
2004/06/28 Submarine coating acoustic properties
2004/06/28 Flow in liquid crystal devices
2004/06/28 Mathematical modelling of polymer-surfactant mixtures
2004/06/28 Multiphase flows in flexible channels
2004/06/28 Monte Carlo simulation of spray drying
2004/03/20 Perspiration modelling of the human foot
2004/03/20 Biomimetic spinning of spider silk
2004/03/20 Curtain coating for paper manufacture
2004/03/20 Mathematical modelling for in vitro tissue growth
2004/02/08 New and emerging themes in industrial and applied mathematics
2003/10/31 Incubation of penguin eggs
2003/09/11 The scanning vibrating needle curemeter
2003/09/10 A vibrating tuning fork fluid density tool
2003/04/20 Pipe-flow and extrusion of composite materials
2003/04/20 Small fast inkdrop emission from a nozzle
2003/04/20 Sequencing spinning lines in textile production
2003/04/20 Manufacture of chewy confectionery
2003/04/20 Modelling of the cooking of hotplate products
2003/04/20 Multiple extrusion of pastes
2003/04/20 Computational models of microwave food processing
2003/04/20 Baking and crusting
2003/04/20 Electromagnetic inverse problems