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Research and Teaching

Curriculum Vitae

Research on Foams

A Gallery of Foam Motion

• MA34810 Mathematical Models of Biological Systems (Further material)
• MA10110 Coordinate and Vector Geometry

• MA25110 Introduction To Numerical Analysis
• MAM0520 Computational Rheology
• MAM9720 Minor Project
• PHM3910 Advanced Topics in Materials Physics

Foam News

January 2012: Simon attended and co-organised a succesful CECAM workshop at TCD on the Dissipative Rheology of Foams. He is slowly compiling contributions from speakers.

December 2011: Tudur spoke at the Midwinter meeting of the British Society of Rheology, held at UCL. Ex-group member Sian Jones was also there, talking about her French foam experiments.

November 2011: We hosted a visit from Andy Kraynik, formerly of Sandia and Manchester University, under the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme of the Royal Academy of Engineering. This was a joint application with Stephen Neethling at Imperial College London, where Andy also spent a fortnight. We worked together on developing robust algorithms for exploring the structure and rheology of wet foams.

November 2011: Benjamin Dollet and Sian Jones visited from the Institute de Physique de Rennes under our jointly-funded Alliance British Council grant. We made progress in comparing simulations, experiments and theory of flowing foams.

October 2011: Foams as art ... here are the bubble pictures from the foyer of the Physical Sciences Building, taken in our experimental laboratory:

Please acknowledge foams@aber if you use them.

October 2011: A preliminary programme is now available for our CECAM workshop on the Dissipative Rheology of Foams in Dublin next January.

October 2011: Together with Frank Morgan and John Sullivan, Simon will organise a workshop at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences on Isoperimetric problems, space-filling, and soap bubble geometry, to be held in March 2012.

August 2011: Bob Laramee and Dan Lipsa, from Swansea University's department of Computer Science visited. We discussed the visualisation of data from our foam simulations, in work funded by RIVIC.

Publications

Also see AU's repository: Cadair

M. F. Vaz, S.J. Cox, and P.I.T. Teixeira (2011) Cyclic deformation of bidisperse two-dimensional foams Phil. Mag. 91:4345-4356. Preprint.

M. Durand, J. Kafer, C. Quilliet, S. Cox, S.A. Talebi and F. Graner (2011) Statistical Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Shuffled Foams: Prediction of the Correlation between Geometry and Topology. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107:168304. Preprint.

S.A. Jones and S.J. Cox (2011) The transition from three-dimensional to two-dimensional foam structures. Eur. Phys. J. E 34:82. Preprint.

D.R. Lipsa, R.S. Laramee, S.J. Cox and I.T. Davies (2011) FoamVis: Visualization of 2D Foam Simulation Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17:2096-2105. Preprint.

D.R. Lipsa, R.S. Laramee, R. Walker, J.C. Roberts and S.J. Cox (2011) Visualization for the Physical Sciences. Eurographics 2011, State of the Art Reports, p49-73. Preprint.

F. Boulogne and S.J. Cox (2011) Elasto-plastic flow of a foam around an obstacle. Phys. Rev. E 83:041404. Preprint.

S.A. Jones, B. Dollet, N. Slosse, Y. Jiang, S.J. Cox, and F. Graner (2011) Two-dimensional constriction flows of foams. Coll. Surf. A. 382:18-23. Preprint.

L. Ran, S.A. Jones, B. Embley, M.M. Tong, P.R. Garrett, S.J. Cox, P. Grassia and S.J. Neethling (2011) Characterisation, Modification & Mathematical Modelling of Sudsing. Coll. Surf. A. 382:50-57. Preprint.