Professor Helen Wilson

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Recent funded projects include:
- Shear-thickening fluids for cryopreservation in which we began an exploration of whether interactions between particles in suspension could inhibit the growth of ice crystals. This work was led by Asymptote and funded by Innovate UK.
- Complex ORAL health products (CORAL): Characterisation, modelling and manufacturing challenges. Here we worked with UCL Engineers and commercial sponsor GSK to investigate the rheology of three-phase suspensions in a viscoelastic matrix, with application to toothpastes. This work was funded by EPSRC.
- Extensional Rheology Matters, a small project funded by EPSRC in which I aimed to develop tools to assess whether extensional flow components are important in a given flow situation.
- Research Group
Research Students
Xintong Ji: Nonlinear systems in rheology. Started March 2023, UCL
Luke Debono: Coarse-grain simulations of complex systems. Started October 2021, UCL
Gareth Jenkins: Mathematical modelling of trace contamination particles. Started October 2021, UCL
Liam Escott, PhD (2022): The rheology of weakly-viscoelastic multiphase systems using a cell model, UCL
Hugo Castillo Sanchez, PhD (2019): Channel flow instabilities of complex fluids, UCL
Adam Townsend, PhD (2017): The mechanics of suspensions, UCL
Thomas Brickell, MPhil (2012): General two-dimensional linear flows of particle suspensions, UCL
Sally Everitt, PhD (2004): Bubble dynamics in polymeric foams, University of LeedsPostdocs
Complex oral health products: Jurriaan Gillissen. 2017-2020.
Shear-thickening for cryopreservation: Adam Townsend, 2016.
Instabilities in polymer processing: Mehmet Sahin, 2005-2007; Tim Reis, 2007-2008.