Dr Nikos Savva
Overview
Position:
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
Email:
SavvaN@cf.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 75116
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74199
Extension: 75116
Location: M/2.47
Research Interests
* Complex flows: wetting phenomena; investigation of free-surface flows supported on substrates influenced by substrate morphology (chemical and topographical), vibrations or other effects, such as the presence of a turbulent gas; dynamics of curved, unsupported liquid films; liquid jets.
* Applied mathematical modelling: singular perturbation methods and matched asymptotics; dynamical systems and bifurcation analysis; stochastic processes; physical resolution of singularities in mathematical models.
* Numerical methods: accurate and efficient numerical schemes for nonlinear PDEs via spectrally accurate methods; improved numerical schemes for dynamic density functional theory; numerical continuation.
* Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous fluids: analytical approaches to density functional theory; extensions to far-from-equilibrium dynamics; formalism.
Research Group
Teaching
MA0232 Modelling with Differential Equations
MA3303 Theoretical & Computational PDEs
Publications
Postgraduate Students
Current
Students co-advised informally at Imperial College London:
Mr. Rajagopal Vellingiri - Thin film flows and droplet dynamics (co-advised with Prof. Serafim Kalliadasis)
Mr. Petr Yatsyshin - Numerical methods for the equations of the classical density-functional theory (co-advised with Prof. Serafim Kalliadasis)
Biography
Education
PhD – Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 09/2007.
BSc – Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Physics (AMEP), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 12/2001.
Previous Positions
11/2007 – 02/2012 Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Honours/Awards
•MIT Presidential Fellowship (2002)
•Four-year Fulbright Scholar (1997-2001)