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

Mathematics and Statistics Teaching Away Day

Invited speaker

19/5/2025

Mathematics & Statistics Teaching Away Day

Invited speaker

22/5/2024

Education for Sustainable Development

Speaker

24/3/2024

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

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Projects

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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