June 25-27, 2018: EPSRC funded Workshop on

• Complex Heterogeneous Systems taking place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
  The preliminary programme can be downoaded here.

New group members:

• Alexandre Simon Exchange Research Student from France
  
  Project on Machine Learning
  in Summer 2018.

• Jonathan Meyer ETP funded Research Student
  
  Industrial Project on Energy
  in 2018.

• Dr. Selcuk Atalay started to work on the EPSRC funded project
  
  Transport and Reactions in Complex Heterogeneous Multiphase Systems
  in July 2017.

• Ms Jeta Molla will start her PhD project associated with the EPSRC fundend project
  
  Transport and Reactions in Complex Heterogeneous Multiphase Systems,
  in October 2017.

Most recent research results:

• Rigorous and computational advances on the evolution of interfaces:
  M. Schmuck, G.A. Pavliotis, and S. Kalliadasis, Recent advances in the evolution of interfaces: thermodynamics, upscaling, and universality, arXiv:1804:09228 (2018).
• Computational VALIDATION of upscaled/homogenized phase field equations:
  A. Veveris & M. Schmuck Computational investigation of porous media phase field formulations: microscopic, effective macroscopic, and Langevin equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 344:485-498 (2017).
• Homogenized COMPOSITE CATHODE equations accounting for PHASE TRANSFORMING intercalation hosts:
  Schmuck, M., Upscaling of solid-electrolyte composite intercalation cathodes for energy storage systems: Homogenized composite cathode equations, Applied Mathematics Research eXpress, 2017(2):402-430 (2017).
• Error estimastes/convergence rates for the porous media approximation of phase field equations:
  Schmuck, M. & Kalliadasis, S., Rate of convergence of general phase field equations in strongly heterogeneous media towards their homogenized limit: error estimates for upscaled phase field equations, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 77(4):1471-1492 (2017).


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