Dr Ellen Luckins
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Ellen LuckinsWarwick Zeeman Lecturer and Office: B1.27 |
Teaching Responsibilities 2025/26:
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.
Recent relevant publications:
- Luckins, E.K. (2025). Mathematical modelling of drying capillary porous mediaLink opens in a new window Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1017:A6. doi:10.1017/jfm.2025.10432
- Luckins, E.K., Fowler, A.C. (2025). Modelling mushy zones in binary alloysLink opens in a new window Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 1–39. doi:10.1080/03091929.2025.2502907
- Luckins, E.K., Breward, C.J.W., Griffiths, I.M., & Please, C.P. (2024). Mathematical modelling of impurity deposition during evaporation of dirt liquid in a porous material. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 986, A31.
- Luckins, E.K., Breward, C.J.W., Griffiths, I.M., & Please, C.P. (2024). The role of temperature and drying cycles on impurity deposition in drying porous media. Europhysics Letters 146, 33001.
My full publication list is here, or on my Google Scholar.
Recent and upcoming conference talks:
- EFDC2, Dublin, August 2025
- BMC-BAMC, Exeter, June 2025
- APS DFD, Salt Lake City USA, November 2024
- EFDC1, Aachen Germany, September 2024
- 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