Computational Multiphysics Lab

What do we do?

A warm welcome to the Computational Multiphysics Lab!

With a pragmatic approach to solving complex engineering problems using computers, our lab focuses on the development of cutting-edge simulation techniques for multiphysics problems at the interface between solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism and chemical transport. We proposed state-of-the-art simulation frameworks for fluid-structure interaction, incompressible solid mechanics, electromechanics, magnetomechanics and morphoelasticity. Our expertise also includes research software development for FEA, CFD and Multiphysics, including parallelisation for HPC.

We mostly develop in-house codes in C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB and Julia. We also use other (opensource and commercial) software such as OpenFOAM, ANSYS and Abaqus.

A glimpse into our research so far

platethin-4solids-streamlintes.mp4

FSI of flexible lightweight structures (CutFEM)

beamflex-Kv0p5.m4v

Fluid-Structure-Control Interaction (CutFEM)

twoellipses-AR1p5-vortz.m4v

Two oscillating rigid bodies in fluid flow (CutFEM)

leaf-velvectors.ogv

Extremely large deformations of thin leaflet (FDM)

columntwist-8b8-BT2BT1-Ogden.m4v

Elastodynamics of truly incompressible Ogden type solid

waveprop2d-complexgeom-Sxy.m4v

Wave propagation in truly incompressible (plane strain) solid

sphericalgripper-tet10-nelem2-mesh.m4v

Electroactive polymeric gripper

thincylinder-buckling.mp4

Dynamic buckling of Electroactive Polymers

petals-4leaves-W18.m4v

Morphoelasticity of flower petals

Sm-Gripper.m4v

Magnetoviscoelastic polymeric gripper

Recent news

Delivered an invited talk on "Advanced Computational Methods for Smart Soft Multifunctional Composites" at Robert Gordon University.

  • March 2022

Delivered an invited talk on "Computational FSI - Challenges and recent developments" at the University of Manchester.

  • March 2022

The application for the EPSRC Access to HPC call has been successful.