Dr Adam Butler
Research Associate
Adam is a Research Associate at the IEEF and the Department of Earth Sciences who is interested in using mathematical techniques to model environmental flows. His current research is primarily focused on developing simplified models of porous flow for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), with related work on diffusion in subsurface systems, the growth of magmatic bodies, and glacial deformation. His main research project is the development of CO2GraVISim, an open-source software implementing a vertically integrated flow model for rapid estimation of CO2 plume behaviour for CCS, developed as part of the StrataTrapper project.
Previously, Adam has held an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at Imperial College London following his PhD there as part of the Laminar Flow Control group in the Department of Mathematics. His work there employed a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to investigate several aspects of the Stationary Crossflow Vortex instability that can occur on aircraft wings – their initial onset, generation by surface roughness, and amplification via nonlinear interactions.
Publications
2023
The effects of heterogeneity on solute transport in porous media: anomalous dispersion Journal Article
In: Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 142, no. 1, 2023.
2020
Deformation of an elastic beam on a winkler foundation Journal Article
In: Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME, vol. 87, no. 5, 2020.
2019
Effects of distributed roughness on crossflow instability through generalized resonance mechanisms Journal Article
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 858, pp. 787 – 831, 2019.
2018
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 845, pp. 93 – 140, 2018.
2015
Non-Parallel-Flow Effects on Stationary Crossflow Vortices at Their Genesis Conference
vol. 14, 2015.