Research Overview

I work jointly between the Multi-scale Mechanics and Mathematics of Computational Science groups. My main research interest is in granular materials, in the past focusing on size segregation in dense granular avalanche flows. During this research a continuum model of size segregation for dense granular free surface flows was developed and compared to simple laboratory experiments.

My research is applied mathematics based; but I believe in using the powerful combination of experiments, simulations and numerical solution to gain a deeper understanding of a problem from all sides. Therefore, my work includes small (and sometimes large) scale experiments, deriving new models, constructing software packages to solve both PDE’s (hpGEM) and to simulate particles (MercuryDPM), and analytical work. I am currently involved with projects that include all of these aspects, more details can be found on the research interests page.

Links to the two software packages I am heavy involved in the development of can be found below:

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