Professor Philip Gaskell

(email at p.h.gaskell@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Positions Available

The following funded PhD project is available: Evaporating sessile droplets: internal flow and pattern formation.

Research Groups

Department of Engineering

• Future Energy Systems

Selected Publications

Chapter in book

• Scholle, Markus, Mellmann, Marcel, Gaskell, Philip H., Westerkamp, Lena & Marner, Florian (2020). Multilayer Modelling of Lubricated Contacts: A New Approach Based on a Potential Field Description. In Multiscale Biomechanics and Tribology of Inorganic and Organic Systems. Ostermeyer, Georg-Peter, Popov, Valentin L., Shilko, Evgeny V. & Vasiljeva, Olga S. Cham: Springer. 359-375.

Journal Article

• Scholle, M., Marner, F. & Gaskell, P.H. (2020). A first integral form of the energy-momentum equations for viscous flow, with comparisons drawn to classical fluid flow theory. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids 84: 262-271.
• Scholle, Markus, Marner, Florian & Gaskell, Philip (2020). Potential Fields in Fluid Mechanics: A Review of Two Classical Approaches and Related Recent Advances. Water 12(5): 1241.
• Scholle, Markus, Gaskell, Philip H. & Marner, Florian (2019). A Potential Field Description for Gravity-Driven Film Flow over Piece-Wise Planar Topography. Fluids 4(2): 82.
• Marner, F., Scholle, M., Herrmann, D. & Gaskell, P. H. (2019). Competing Lagrangians for incompressible and compressible viscous flow. Royal Society Open Science 6(1): 181595.
• Scholle, M., Gaskell, P. H. & Marner, F. (2018). Exact integration of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, gauge criteria, and applications. Journal of Mathematical Physics 59(4): 043101.
• Marner, F., Gaskell, P. H. & Scholle, M. (2017). A complex-valued first integral of Navier-Stokes equations: Unsteady Couette flow in a corrugated channel system. Journal of Mathematical Physics 58(4): 043102.
• Shah, R. A., Gaskell, P.H. & Veremieiev, S. (2017). Free Surface Thin Film Flow of a Sisko’s Fluid over a Surface Topography. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics 10(1): 307-317.
• Bradley, Derek, Gaskell, Philip H., Gu, Xiaojun & Palacios, Adriana (2016). Jet flame heights, lift-off distances, and mean flame surface density for extensive ranges of fuels and flow rates. Combustion and Flame 164: 400-409.
• Elbadawy, Ibrahim, Gaskell, Philip H., Lawes, Malcolm & Thompson, Harvey M. (2015). Numerical investigation of the effect of ambient turbulence on pressure swirl spray characteristics. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 77: 271-284.
• Gilkeson, C.A., Toropov, V.V., Thompson, H.M., Wilson, M.C.T., Foxley, N.A. & Gaskell, P.H. (2014). Dealing with numerical noise in CFD-based design optimization. Computers & Fluids 94: 84-97.
• Veremieiev, S., Thompson, H.M., Scholle, M., Lee, Y.C. & Gaskell, P.H. (2012). Electrified thin film flow at finite Reynolds number on planar substrates featuring topography. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 44: 48-69.
• Scholle, M., Haas, A. & Gaskell, P.H. (2011). A first integral of Navier–Stokes equations and its applications. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 467(2125): 127-143.
• Veremieiev, S., Thompson, H.M., Lee, Y.C. & Gaskell, P.H. (2010). Inertial thin film flow on planar surfaces featuring topography. Computers & Fluids 39(3): 431-450.
• Scholle, M. Haas, A., Aksel1, N. Wilson, M.C.T. Thompson, H.M. & P. H. Gaskell (2008). Competing geometric and inertial effects on local flow structure in thick gravity-driven fluid films. Physics of Fluids 20(12): 123101.

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Supervises

• Miss Sara Ismail-sutton
• Mr George Daly
• Mr Zhi Zhang
• Mr Rigoberto Ortega-chavez
• Mr Yilin Wang

Selected Grants