Group members

Post-doctoral researchers

Dr Daria Frank
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
personal webpage
Daria studies experimentally the physics of an oil leak happening at the bottom of the ocean. This project started in 2015 and is in collaboration with Profs Paul Linden and Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP), under the CARTHE consortium.

Current and past students

  • Master Students
    • 2018 - 2019: Muhammad Usama and Bradley Stanford, School of Mathematics and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.
      Surfactant incompressibility at the surface of a drop in a shear flow.
    • 2018 - 2019: Ciara Higham and Janaki Dodia, School of Mathematics and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.
      How does surfactant spreading at the surface of a liquid-filled maze finds the exit?
    • 2018: Guillaume Cazottes, LadHyx, École polytechnique, Paris.
      Viscous flow instabilities and pattern formation in a narrow gap.
    • 2017 - 2018: Maxime Rey and Michael Macraild, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.
      Dynamics of confined thermals.
    • 2016 - 2017: Thomas Mitcham and Jack Harding, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.
      Instability of confined turbulent particle-laden jets and fountains.
    • 2016: Baptiste Rosell, LadHyX, École polytechnique, Paris.
      Experimental study of the impact and spreading of an oil droplet on a pure water surface. Project in co-supervision with Prof. Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP).
    • 2016: Pierre Rostan, ENSTA, ParisTech.
      Experimental study of the decontamination process of a cavity by a gravity-driven film flow. Project in co-supervision with Prof. Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP).
    • 2015: Paul Kerdraon, LadHyx, École polytechnique, Paris (personal webpage).
      3D tomographic micro-PIV of the velocity field of an immiscible drop in a shear flow. Paul was awarded the First Prize in Mechanics at École polytechnique for his project. Project in co-supervision with Dr François Peaudecerf and Profs Stuart Dalziel and Ray Goldstein (DAMTP).
    • 2014 - 2015: Amalia Thomas, DPES, UNCPBA, Argentina (personal webpage).
      Experimental study of the convective mass transfer from a viscous drop into a liquid film. Amalia received the highest score 10/10 for her Master's Thesis. Project in co-supervision with Dr Juan Gomba (DPES, UNCPBA).
    • 2013 - 2014: Wassim Aouad, CEB, University of Cambridge (personal webpage).
      Experimental, theoretical and numerical study of the flow produced by an impinging jet. Project in co-supervision with Prof. Ian Wilson (CEB).
    • 2014: Florent Sharpin, LadHyX, École polytechnique, Paris (personal webpage).
      Experimental study of the instability of a confined particle-laden jet. Florent was awarded the "Félicitations du Jury" at École polytechnique for his report. Project in co-supervision with Prof. Colm Caulfield (BPI, DAMTP, Cambridge).
    • 2012-2013: Huifeng Yu, CEB, University of Cambridge.
      Experimental study of the flow produced by an impinging jet on a vertical plane. Project in co-supervision with Prof. Ian Wilson (CEB).
  • Undergraduate students
    • 2014: Ana Daglis, Magdalene College, Cambridge (personal webpage).
      Experimental study of a thin film falling over obstacles. Ana was the recipient of a Browning Summer Bursary from Magdalene College.