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DR HELEN J WILSON

RESEARCH AREA: COMPLEX FLUIDS

I'm interested in fluids that don't behave like the standard (air, water, honey) Newtonian model. This has led me to study particles suspended in a viscous fluid (for example, with my student Thomas Brickell below); polymeric liquids (for instance, with my first Ph.D. student Sally Everitt); and instabilities in elastic liquids. The instabilities work has included two postdocs working on industrially relevant materials, and an ongoing collaboration with Suzanne Fielding at Durham on shear-banding instabilities.

RESEARCH GROUP

PhD Students
[2005-2009] Thomas Brickell: General two-dimensional linear flows of particle suspensions, UCL.
[2000-2004] Dr Sally Everitt: Bubble dynamics in polymeric foams, University of Leeds
Postdocs
Instabilities in polymer processing: Dr Mehmet Sahin, 2005-2007; Dr Tim Reis, 2007-2008.

POPULAR SCIENCE

Problem plastics & how mathematics can help: presented at Mathematics Works, October 2007 and in UCL Science, issue 20 (pp6-7).
Bang Goes the Theory: BBC science project in which real scientists (including me!) answer real questions from the public, such as "Due to centrifugal force, does a high jumper at the equator have an advantage over one at a higher latitude?"

PUBLICATIONS

USEFUL LINKS

TEACHING

I am on maternity leave for 2009-10 and won't be teaching any courses, nor offering any projects.

CONTACT DETAILS

Location: Room 802A, 25 Gordon Street
Email: helen.wilson @ ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 20 7679 1302 (31302 internal)
Fax: +44 20 7383 5519

Postal address:
Department of Mathematics,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT, UK