Dr Thomasina Ball

Thomasina Ball

Assistant Professor

Office: C2.09
Phone: +44 (0)24 765 24406
Email: Thomasina.Ball (at) warwick.ac.uk

Teaching Responsibilities 2025/26:

Term 2: MA269 Asymptotics and Integral Transforms

Research Interests:

My research interests lie in mathematical modelling of 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:

Ball, T. V. & Balmforth, N. J. (2025) Non-axisymmetric patterns in floating viscoplastic films. J. Fluid Mech. 1007.
Ribinskas, E., Ball, T. V., Penney, C. E., & Neufeld, J. A. (2024) Scraping of a viscoplastic fluid to model mountain building. J. Fluid Mech.

See my Publications page for a full list with preprints.

Recent and upcoming conferences/seminars:

European Fluid Dynamics Conference (Aug. 2025)
VPF10 Viscoplastic Flows, Amsterdam (July 2025)
Applied Maths Seminar, University of Nottingham (May 2025)
University of Oslo Mechanics Seminar Series (Mar. 2025)
Applied and Industrial Mathematics Seminar (AIMS), Bath University (Jan. 2025)
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)