Dr Lindsey Corson

Teaching Fellow

Mathematics and Statistics

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Personal statement

My pedagogical research interests include understanding how students engage with online quizzes and how groups of students from different disciplines work together.

My mathematical research interests lie in using applied mathematics to solve real-world problems. Rather than studying detailed models of a particular system, I consider simple, but physically founded, models with the aim elucidating the fundamental mechanisms that control phenomena such as the evolution of porous media as a result of reactive natural convection processes, and the behaviour of both isotropic and anisotropic fluids (liquid crystals) under the influence of an electric field.  

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Publications

Weak-anchoring effects in a thin pinned ridge of nematic liquid crystal
Cousins Joseph R L, Bhadwal Akhshay S, Corson Lindsey T, Duffy Brian R, Sage Ian C, Brown Carl V, Mottram Nigel J, Wilson Stephen K
Physical Review E Vol 107 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.034702
Multidisciplinary perspectives of sustainable development : achieving the SDGs in higher education through OBE
Willison Debra, Corson Lindsey
Development of Employability Skills Through Pragmatic Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (2022) (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4210-4
Field validation of a detectable, magnetic, cementitious grout for rock fracture grouting
Corson Lindsey, Reid Christopher, Lunn Rebecca J, El Mountassir Grainne, Henderson Alisdair E, Henderson Kenneth, Pagano Arianna G, Kremer Yannick
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences Vol 145 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmms.2021.104853
Could magnetic properties be used to image a grouted rock volume?
Lunn RJ, Corson LT, Howell C, El Mountassir G, Reid C, Harley SL
Journal of Applied Geophysics Vol 155, pp. 162-175 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018.06.015
Thermosolutal convection in an evolving soluble porous medium
Corson Lindsey T, Pritchard David
Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 832, pp. 666-696 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.663
Electro-manipulation of droplets for microfluidic applications
Corson L T, Tsakonas C, Duffy B R, Mottram N J, Brown C V, Wilson S K
Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2014 ECMI 2014 - European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Mathematics in Industry Vol 22, pp. 1073-1080 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23413-7

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Research Interests

Problems I have worked on include:

  • Reative convection in an evolving porous layer
  • High Rayleigh number convection in a porous medium 
  • Deformation of nearly hemipsherical and thin drops of isotropic fluid under the influence of an electric field

Professional Activities

Developing and Enhancing Skills in Educational Research in the Mathematical Sciences
Organiser
15/6/2023
QAA Scotland’s 5th International Conference, ‘Shaping the Student Experience Together: 20 Years of Enhancement’
Speaker
14/6/2023
Scottish Mathematical Council Prizegiving Ceremony
Speaker
8/6/2023
Advance HE Learning and Teaching Conference 2022
Speaker
5/7/2022
Are online quizzes like Wordle?
Speaker
23/6/2022
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2022
Speaker
25/4/2022

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Anisotropic liquid dielectrophoresis and interfacial forces
Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Brown, Carl (Academic) Tsakonas, Costas (Academic) Duffy, Brian (Co-investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Corson, Lindsey (Researcher)
There is a growing technology-driven interest in using external influences to move or shape small quantities of liquids, a process that is referred to as microfluidic actuation. Using electrical, rather than mechanical, forces to achieve this actuation is convenient because this involves relatively simple device architectures that contain no moving parts. Existing non-mechanical microfluidic actuation techniques that are driven by the application of a voltage include electrowetting, which only works with conducting liquids, and dielectrophoresis, which works with both conducting and non-conducting liquids. We have previously shown how dielectrophoresis forces in non-conducting isotropic liquids can be used to create not only forced wetting and liquid spreading, but also liquid film wrinkling in which an engineered electric field distribution imprints a replica of itself as a distortion pattern at the liquid-air interface of the film. In this proposal the possibility that liquid dielectrophoresis can lead to added functionality and greater control within a pure anisotropic liquid, i.e. a nematic liquid crystal rather than a simple isotropic liquid, will be investigated. Liquid dielectrophoresis in pure anisotropic liquids has not been studied before, either experimentally or theoretically. Our proposed integrated collaborative experimental and theoretical research approach aims to understand and exploit the forces that can be created within, and at the surface of, free and confined anisotropic liquids when they are subject to electric fields. The proposed research will investigate an exciting new possibility of using anisotropic liquids along with particular confinement geometries which allow voltage controlled actuated microfluidic pumping to be produced even with simplified electrode architectures. Our industrial supporters include Merck Chemicals Ltd, the world-leading researcher, developer and manufacturer of liquid crystals and reactive mesogens, together with Hewlett-Packard and ADT, who are developing the next generation of information displays based on liquid crystal and microfluidic effects.
01-Jan-2012 - 28-Jan-2015

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Dr Lindsey Corson
Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics

Email: lindsey.corson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3547