Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics
Frank Smith
Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics
UCL
frank@math.ucl.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Frank T Smith FRS does research predominantly on biomedical and industrial applications, as Goldsmid Chair of applied mathematics at UCL. He has wide experience in 2D and 3D model studies of fluid dynamics for various flow rates, including interaction, unsteadiness and local-global interference, and solid mechanics, using nonlinear theory and reduced computation or direct simulation. These include viscous layer theory, viscous-inviscid interactions and purely inviscid global theory and computations covering a wide range of geometries, involving a variety of analytical and numerical methods including compact-differencing, finite-element, spectral, Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches, and volume-of-fluid methodology. Author of over 270 refereed papers, he collaborates within UCL, nationally and internationally, ongoing collaborations being with Germany, Japan, USA, India and Canada, and he has taken part in many research programmes. He currently supervises three PhD students and one research assistant. Frank has contacts with NHS hospitals and industry, with applications to turbine blades, car-forewing design, food-sorting devices, multiple branching motions, liquid crystal processing, rotors, multiple blade-wake interactions, bifurcation properties, and fistula design. He is also Director of the Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences and head of the London Taught Course Centre for PhD students in the mathematical sciences.
Supervisors
David Allinson
Lecturer in Building Physics: measurement and modelling
Hector Altamirano
Lecturer
Mark Barrett
Senior Lecturer
Phill Biddulph
Senior Research Associate
Richard Buswell
Reader in Building Energy Systems
Lai Fong Chiu
Prinicpal Research Associate
Malcolm Cook
Professor of Building Performance Analysis
Ben Croxford
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
Mike Davies
Director
Paul Dodds
Lecturer, Energy Systems
Philip Eames
Professor of Renewable Energy/Director CREST
Paul Ekins
Director & Prof. in Resources & Environment Policy
Frank Smith
Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics
UCL
frank@math.ucl.ac.uk
Biography
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