Dr Thomasina Ball
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Thomasina BallLeverhulme Early Career Fellow Office: C2.09 |
Teaching Responsibilities 2024/25:
Term 2: MA269 Asymptotics and Integral Transforms
Research Interests:
My research interests lie in mathematical modelling fluid dynamical phenomena from observations of laboratory experiments and the natural world around us. In particular I am interested in the areas of: non-Newtonian rheologies, yield stress fluids, gravity-driven flow, geophysical flows, instabilities that arise from rheology contrasts, fluid-structure interactions.
Please contact me about potential R-project, MSc, URSS project or PhD supervision.
See my Research Interests page for more information.
Most relevant recent publications:
- Ribinskas, E., Ball, T. V., Penney, C. E., & Neufeld, J. A. (2024) Scraping of a viscoplastic fluid to model mountain building. J. Fluid Mech.
- Ball, T. V. Balmforth, N. J. (2024) Viscoplastic rimming flow inside a rotating cylinder. Phys. Rev. Fluids.
See my Publications page for a full list with preprints.
Recent and upcoming conferences/seminars:
- APS DFD, Salt Lake City (Nov. 2024)
- Fluids and Structures Seminar, UEA (Nov. 2024)
- Physical and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Manchester (Oct. 2024)
- European Fluid Dynamics Conference (Aug. 2024)
- BAMC, Newcastle University (April 2024)
- Workshop on Mathematical modelling for environmental challenges (March 2024)
- Fluids and MHD Seminar, University of Leeds (Nov. 2023)
- APS DFD, Washington DC (Nov. 2023)
- 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (May 2023)
- MACSI Seminar, University of Limerick (March 2023)
- Fluids Seminar, Imperial College London (March 2023)
- Fluids and materials seminar, University of Bristol (Sept. 2022)
- European Fluids Mechanics Conference, Athens, Greece (Sept. 2022)
Recent research grants:
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship ECF-2022-584 Buckling instabilities in geophysical flows 09/2022-09/2025 (Newsletter September 2022)
Recent awards & prizes:
- Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (JNNFM) Walters Award 2021: Thomasina Ball, Neil Balmforth and Ariel Dufresne. Viscoplastic fingers and fractures in a Hele-Shaw cell, J. Non-Newton. Fluid Mech., vol. 289, 104492 (2021) (link)
- APS Division of Fluid Dynamics François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics 2018: Thomasina Ball and Jerome Neufeld. Static and Dynamic Fluid Driven Fracturing of Adhered Elastica, Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 074101 (2018) (link)