I am a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. I am working with Anne Juel and Andrew Hazel on the project 'Multiple States of Bubble Propagation in Occluded Tubes'. The project involves numerical calculations and experiments, in collaboration with oomph-lib and the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics respectively.

I submitted my PhD thesis, entitled 'Surface-tension-driven coalescence' in October 2011. The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of a low density external fluid (air) on predictions of toroidal bubble pinch-off during inviscid coalescence. My PhD studies were at the University of Nottingham, and my principal supervisor was John Billingham.

In 2010 I completed a six-month research internship at Airbus in Bristol. The internship was supported and organised by the Industrial Mathematics KTN. My research at Airbus was on the effects of surface coatings on water condensation and runoff in aircraft fuel tanks. Selected results from this internship project are discussed in my conference paper.

In 2006 I did a summer research project with John Lister at DAMTP. This was concerned with a method of glass lens manufacture where blobs of molten glass are levitated on a cushion of air blown through a spherical mould. My task was to calculate axisymmetric static shapes for a such a setup using AUTO and to investigate the stability properties of such shapes.

alice.thompson at manchester.ac.uk

Alice B. Thompson, Anne Juel & Andrew L. Hazel (2012). Multiple bubble propagation modes in Hele-Shaw cells of variable depth. In preparation for submission to Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Alice B. Thompson & John Billingham (2012). Inviscid coalescence in the presence of a surrounding fluid. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 77 (5), pp 678-696. Special Issue: The winners of the 1st IMA Lighthill-Thwaites Prize. Online PDF.

Alice B. Thompson & Joseph K.-W. Lam. (2012) Water runoff in aircraft fuel tanks. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 77 (1), pp 72-85. Special Issue: fluid problems in process engineering. Online PDF.

Alice B. Thompson (2011). Surface tension driven flow. PhD thesis. University of Nottingham. Electronic version (3.7 MB).

Alice B. Thompson, John Billingham & Richard H. Tew (2010). Surface tension driven flow in a half plane. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 75 (6), pp 857-880. Online PDF.

John R. Lister, Alice B. Thompson, Antoine Perriot & Laurent Duchemin (2008). Shape and stability of axisymmetric levitated viscous drops. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 617, pp 167-185 doi:10.1017/S0022112008003868

Copies of all papers available on request

Multiple bubble propagation modes in Hele-Shaw cells of variable depth. APS Division of Fluid Mechanics Fall Meeting (November 2012, San Diego).

Multiple morphologies in a depth-averaged model of bubble propagation in a partially occluded channel. Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference - 9 (September 2012, Rome) Abstract (PDF).

Water run-off and surface tension in an aircraft fuel tank. Informal applied seminars, University of Manchester (March 2012).

Self-similar solutions for coalescence. MCND seminar day, (January 2012).

Water runoff problems in aircraft fuel tanks. BAMC 2011 (April 2011, Birmingham). Invited talk in industrial mathematics minisymposium.

Surface-tension-driven flow in a half-plane. BAMC 2011 (April 2011, Birmingham). Shortlisted finalist for the IMA Lighthill-Thwaites prize.

Surface tension driven flow in fat wedges. Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference - 8 (September 2010, Bad Reichenhall, Germany)

Condensation and runoff problems in aircraft fuel tanks. IMA Conference on Fluid Problems in Process Engineering (September 2010, Leeds)

Surface tension driven flow in a half plane. EPFDC (July 2009, Nottingham)

Surface tension driven flow in a half plane. Beyond Part III (April 2009, Cambridge)

Surface tension driven flow in a half plane. BAMC 2009 (April 2009, Nottingham). Won one of four postgraduate presentation prizes.

Surface tension driven flow in a half plane. Nottingham theoretical mechanics seminars (November 2008)

Levitated drops continued: routes to instability. ITG informal lunch seminars (Cambridge) (October 2006)

1st UK Graduate Modelling week (March 2009, Nottingham). Uptake of fatty particles by the liver.

68th UK Study Group with Industry (March 2009, Southampton). Arc Phenomena in low-voltage current limiting circuit breakers, Study Group Report. with G. Richardson, Paul Dellar, M. McGuinness & Chris Budd (2010).

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