Dr Ellen Luckins

I am a Zeeman Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Warwick Mathematics Institute.

My research is in fluid and continuum mechanics, and industrial modelling. I am interested in multi-scale problems, free-boundary problems, and the use of homogenisation and asymptotic methods. Currently, much of my work is on reacting flows, phase-change, and interfacial flows. Topics include:

• Evaporation: drying of porous media, salt wicking, evaporation of sessile droplets

• Injection and imbibition flows in porous media

• Chemical decontamination of porous media

• Freezing: mushy binary alloys, latent heat energy storage

My previous postdoctoral  research in the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, was in the mathematics of filtration and decontamination. 

Before that, I studied for my DPhil at Oxford University through the InFoMM CDT.  My DPhil research project was in collaboration with Elkem, a metallurgy company which produces silicon in a submerged arc furnace. My research focused on the coupled electrical, thermal, and chemical processes in the furnace.