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Publications

Walton Joshua, , Mottram Nigel

European Physical Journal E Vol 48 (2025)

Walton Joshua, , , Mottram Nigel J

European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter Vol 43 (2020)

Crooks Elaine C M, ,

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences Vol 41, pp. 88-102 (2018)

Walton J, Mottram N J,

Physical Review E Vol 97 (2018)

Mottram Nigel, , Brown Carl, Russell Craig, Sage Ian

Physical Review E Vol 93 (2016)

, Dumbleton Tim, Murray Kevin D, McHugh Brendan F, , Sexton Sandra

Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics Vol 26, pp. 43-47 (2014)

Teaching

Since becoming a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics (now Mathematics and Statistics) in 1994, and then a Senior Lecturer in 2004, I have been responsible for a large number of classes covering a wide variety of topics and at various different levels. As always, the challenge remains to engage students, highlighting the relevance of mathematics in everyday life and a variety of careers, while also trying to convey techniques that are vital to the knowledge development of any mathematics or engineering student.听 Currently the classes in which I am involved cover material from Foundation Mathematics to Complex Analysis.

Within my department I have the role of year 3 coordinator, with responsibility for all aspects of the third year of our many degree courses. I have also been the academic supervisor for a significant number of final year undergraduate projects for students in the final year of our Honours degree courses. These projects have focused on topics as varied as The Mechanics of Sport, RSA Codes, Flows in Porous Media, Modelling Liquid Crystals, Phase Transitions, Chaotic Motion and Site Percolation.

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Research Interests

Areas of focus in the field of liquid crystals include:

• Dynamic modelling of nematic flows
• Unwinding cholesterics
• Freely suspended smectic films
• Weak anchoring effects
• Bidirectional surface ordering
• Mechanical actions of nanocyclinders on nematic liquid crystals
• Smectic chevron structures
• Orientation of liquid crystals subject to external fields

Professional Activities

Speaker

13/8/2024

Projects

Mottram, Nigel (Principal Investigator) McKay, Geoffrey (Co-investigator) Walton, Joshua (Research Co-investigator)

Active nematic liquid crystals in confined regions

01-Jan-2015 - 20-Jan-2020

McKay, Geoffrey (Principal Investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2014 - 14-Jan-2021

McKay, Geoffrey (Principal Investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2014 - 14-Jan-2021