Research Interests :

• General: Magnetohydrodynamics, Electrohydrodynamics, Biological fluid dynamics
• Particular: Arterial Blood flow: See

  BHF Meeting April 2001: Breaking Symmetry in Haemodynamics

  Conference Proceedings have appeared in "Biorheology" Vol 39(3,4), 2002
  See also this animation.

  Electrostatic spraying in Cone-Jet mode. (See pictures and further details of cone-jet spraying and pedestal insulator breakdown)
  Control of liquid metals using magnetic fields (See pictures and further details of Levitation melting and liquid metal stream deflection)

• (with R.M. Lock)
  (1) 2008 On annular self-similar solutions in resistive magnetogasdynamics. Proc Roy Soc. Lond. A 464.
  (2) 2008 Annular self-similar solutions in ideal magnetogasdynamics. J. Plasma Phys. 74.
• (with L. Zabielski) (1) 2007 A double helix laminar dynamo. J. Fluid Mech. 573, p237-246. Animation
  (2) 2006 Nonlinear dynamos in laminar, helical pipe flow. Physics of Fluids 18 Animation
  (3) 2005 Kinematic dynamo action in a helical pipe. J. Fluid Mech. 535, p347-367.
  (4) 2001 Separation regions in two-dimensional high-Reynolds-number flow. Proc R. Soc. Lond. A 457, p599 -622.
  (5) 2000 Helical flow around arterial bends for varying body mass. J. Biomechanical Engineering 122, p 135-142. Animation
  (6) 1998 Unsteady blood flow in a helically symmetric pipe. J. Fluid Mech. 370, p321-345.
  (7) Steady flow in a helically symmetric pipe. J. Fluid Mech. 370, p297-320.
• (with N. Dubash)
  (1) 2007 Behaviour of a conducting drop in a highly viscous fluid subject to an electric field. J. Fluid Mech. 581, p469-493.
  (2) 2007 Breakup brehaviour of a conducting viscous drop suspended in a viscous fluid subject to an electric field. Physics of Fluids 19, 072101.
  (3) 2007 Behaviour near critical for a conducting drop in an electric field Physics of Fluids 19, 073104.
• 2004 S.P. Goodwin, A.J. Mestel, L. Mestel and G. Wright The relativistic force-free equation. Mon. Not. Roy. Astro. Soc. 349 213-224.
• 2002 Maximal accelerations for charged drops in electric fields Physics of Fluids 14, p1396-1402.
• (with M. G. Blyth)
  (1) 2003 The influence of geometry on inviscid decay rates in haemodynamic flows. J. Fluid Mech. 462, p185-207.
  (2) 2001 Merging flows in coaxial pipes. Q.J.Mech. Appl.Math. 54, p1-19.
  (3) 1999 Steady flow in a dividing pipe. J. Fluid Mech. 401, p339-264.
• 1999 (with A. Mokady & C.P. Winlove)
  Flow through a charged biopolymer layer. J. Fluid Mech. 383, p353-378.
• 1996 Electrohydrodynamic stability of a highly viscous jet.
  J. Fluid Mech. 312, p311-326.
  (See also 1994 Electrohydrodynamic stability of a slightly viscous jet.
  J. Fluid Mech. 274, p93-113.)

• 2nd year Multivariate calculus scanned lectures Mon Feb 8
• 1st year Mathematics M1M1 Mathematical Methods 1.
• 2nd year Mathematics for Civil Engineering
• Taught PhD course Bio Fluid Mechanics
• M4A40 Hydrodynamic Stability (Maths 4th year/MSc in Aeronautics)
• 2nd year Mechanical Engineering
• 3rd/4th year Mathematics M3A10 Viscous Flow
• 4th year Mathematics and MSc M4A33/MSA8 Applications of Fluid Mechanics
• 1st year Mathematics M1A1 Mechanics.
• 3rd/4th year Mathematics: M3A21 Mathematical Biology
• 2nd year Mathematics: M2M2 Differential equations
• 1st year Computing (1996-97): Comp.145 Mathematical methods and graphics
• 3rd/4th year Mathematics and MSc(1996-97): J15/M3N9 Finite Difference Methods.