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Biography
Dr Tom Eaves a Lecturer in Environmental fluid Mechanics. He is an applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist whose research aims to distil important processes in fluid flow and in industrial processes to their key mechanistic description via mathematical modelling, simulation, and experiment. He teaches mathematics and fluid mechanics on our Engineering degree programmes. He joined the University of Dundee in January 2020, after being a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oxford, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, and completing MMath and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge.
Research
Tom’s research is in the broad area of mathematical fluid mechanics, and focusses on the following areas:
- Dynamical Systems and Computational Fluid Mechanics – designing control systems to reduce turbulent fluid drag, by understanding their effect on nonlinear flow structures.
- Environmental Flows (Computation and Analysis) – using simulations to analyse mixing in oceanic and estuarine flows, to better understand the flow of heat, salt, and pollutants.
- Non-Newtonian Modelling of Industrial and Environmental Fluid Processes – modelling and simulation of the flow of industrial materials such as wood-fibre pulp and concrete, and environmental materials such as estuarine sediments.
Projects
- Saving energy via drag reduction: a mathematical description of oscillatory flows (PI). EPSRC New Investigator Award EP/W021009/1.
- East Scotland Nonlinear Dynamics & Fluids (Co-I). London Mathematical Society Joint Research Groups.
- Thixotropic modelling of concrete pumping (PI). British Society of Rheology Undergraduate Bursary.
- Hydrowheel: predicting and harvesting freely available energy (Co-I). ETP Knowledge Exchange Network ET KEN PRO52-EDI.
Teaching
Tom teaches in Civil, Mechanical, and Biomedical Engineering degrees. He is currently leading:
- EG11003 Science and Engineering Mathematics 1A
- ME40002 Fluid Mechanics
In previous years he has also taught EG22010 Solid Mechanics, ME22002 Mechanics of Machines, CE40003/EV40001 Water Resources and Treatment, and CE50033 Coastal Processes and Engineering Applications.
PhD Supervision
- Current – Fluid-solid flow transitions in mixed (sand-mud) sediments. 1st supervisor
- Current – Periodic forcing of chaotic dynamical systems. 1st supervisor
- Previous – Instabilities and mixing in estuarine flows. 2nd supervisor