Research Funding & Projects

Our work is supported by national and international funding bodies, balancing fundamental research with industrial application.

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Key Projects & Funding

• 2023–2025: MATHPEAT Research Network
  Funder: Isaac Newton Institute, EPSRC.
  Summary: Mathematical modelling, numerical analysis, continuum mechanics and uncertainty quantification for soft porous materials, focused on peatlands.
  Partners: Network with 50+ participants globally.

• 2022–2024: GHG-Intensive-Industry Medium-Scale Capture and Utilization Solutions Assessment in Colombia
  Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering.
  Summary: Assessment of CCS potential in the Colombian industrial sector.

• 2020–2023: SilentProp: Assessing Noise Generation in Aircraft with Distributed Electric Propulsion
  Funder: EU H2020 (Clean Sky 2).
  Summary: Supervision of PhD student on model reduction for CFD.
  Partners: Univ. of Nottingham, Mathelis, Univ. of Bristol, Mejzlik Propellers, KU Leuven.

• 2019: Dimension Reduction for Solid-State Diffusion in Batteries
  Funder: London Mathematical Society.
  Summary: Undergraduate Summer Research Internship.

• 2019–2021: Asphaltene Dynamics at the Pore-Scale and the Impact on Oil Production at the Field-Scale
  Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering.
  Summary: Developing fluid dynamics and macroscale transport models for highly viscous organic compounds in porous media, including aggregation and clogging effects.
  Partners: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ecopetrol, Equion.

• 2018–2022: Communication through Porous and Heterogeneous Media
  Funder: TOTAL (+ contribution from EPSRC).
  Summary: Development of fluid-mechanics-based transfer function approaches for nanosensing and molecular communication in geological applications.

• 2018–2022: N2N: European Industrial Doctorate for Advanced, Lightweight and Silent, Multifunctional Composite Structures
  Funder: EU H2020-MSCA-ITN.
  Summary: Poro-mechanics modelling and simulation of composite material in the acoustic regime.
  Partners: Univ. of Nottingham (UK), Mathelis (FR).

• 2018–2021: SECURe: Subsurface Evaluation of Carbon Capture and Storage and Unconventional Risk
  Funder: EU H2020-LCE.
  Summary: Efficient multi-continuum modelling and data assimilation approaches for flow, transport and geomechanics in fractured and heterogeneous reservoirs.
  Partners: Over 10 partners including SINTEF (Norway), INIG (Poland), British Geological Survey (UK).

• 2018–2020: Development of a Robust Modelling and Up-Scaling Technique of Nanofluids Transport and Retention for Subsurface Engineering Applications
  Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering.
  Summary: Pore-scale simulation and upscaling for nano-particle transport and deposition in porous media.
  Partners: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ecopetrol.

• 2018–2020: Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification Strategies for Anomalous Transport in Subsurface Flows
  Funder: Royal Society (International Exchanges).
  Summary: Development of robust model and calibration approaches beyond the advection-dispersion equation.
  Partners: Politecnico di Milano.

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Industrial Partners

We collaborate with the following organizations to apply our mathematical research to operational challenges:

• TOTAL
• DOW
• Mondelez
• Cranswick
• ASCOMP
• NE Scientific
• Ecopetrol
• Equion