Nicola Mingotti

Past Seminars

Cracking in drying films

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Professor Alex Routh has long been interested in colloidal suspensions, and today he told us about some of his recent work in the field.  When a pool of fluid containing a suspension of particles  is left to dry, the liquid slowly evaporates and the particles consolidate into a solid, which eventually cracks. We can see

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Past Seminars

First seminar of Lent term

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Professor Yulong Ding visited us from the University of Birmingham today, and gave the first seminar of Lent term. The title of the seminar was: “Multiphase Transport Phenomena and Energy Process Intensification”. He started by talking about a few energy storage techniques which have been developed by his group over the years, including liquid air

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