Ellen Luckins Warwick Zeeman Lecturer (she/her) Office: B1.27 Phone: +44 (0)24 76XX XXXX Email: Ellen.Luckins@warwick.ac.uk Personal webpage

 

Teaching Responsibilities 2023/24:

Term 1: MA4L0 Advanced Topics in Fluids

Research Interests:

I am an applied mathematician with interests in modelling physical and industrial problems using PDEs, continuum mechanics, and the asymptotic analysis of PDEs. I work on problems including heat and mass transfer, electromagnetism, fluid flow, chemical reactions and phase changes, with applications to cleaning and decontamination, filtration, soil science, and metallurgy. I am particularly interested in free-boundary problems, and using asymptotic analysis to study multi-scale problems.

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Most relevant recent publications:

• Luckins, E., Breward, C., Griffiths, I., & Please, C. (2023). A homogenised model for the motion of evaporating fronts in porous media. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 34(4), 806-837. doi:10.1017/S0956792522000419
• Geng,Y., Kamilova, A., & Luckins, E. (2023). Fluid-flow effects in the reactive decontamination of porous materials driven by chemical swelling or contraction. Journal of Engineering Mathematics 141, 11. doi:10.1007/s10665-023-10283-6
• Luckins, E., Breward, C., Griffiths, I., & Please, C. (2023). The effect of pore-scale contaminant distribution on the reactive decontamination of porous media. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 1-41. doi:10.1017/S0956792523000219
• Luckins, E., Oliver, J., Please, C., Sloman, B., & Van Gorder, R. (2022). Modelling and analysis of an endothermic reacting counter-current flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 949, A21. doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.702

My full publication list is here, or on my Google Scholar.

Recent and upcoming conference talks:

• BAMC, Newcastle, April 2024
• ECMI, Wrocław Poland, Minisymposium on "Environmental Mathematics" (invited talk) June 2023
• BAMC, Bristol, Minisymposium on "Dynamics of Reaction-Transport Systems" (invited talk), April 2023
• APS DFD, Indianapolis, November 2022

Recent awards & prizes:

• Highly Commended, L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women In Science Rising Talent Award 2024
• Christopher Reddick Prize, InFoMM CDT, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 2022
• Recognition Award, "Awards for Excellence" scheme, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 2022
• Finalist, IMA Lighthill-Thwaites Prize, 2021
• Finalist, STEM for BRITAIN Prize, 2021