Publications

Homogenised modelling of the electro-mechanical behaviour of a vascularised poroelastic composite representing the myocardium

Miller Laura, Penta Raimondo

Mechanics of Materials Vol 202 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.105215

Homogenization of a coupled electrical and mechanical bidomain model for the myocardium

Miller Laura, Penta Raimondo

Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids Vol 30, pp. 406–427 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865231207600

Homogenized multiscale modelling of an electrically active double poroelastic material representing the myocardium

Miller Laura, Penta Raimondo

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-025-01931-0

On an isotropic porous solid cylinder : the analytical solution and sensitivity analysis of the pressure

Asghari H, Miller L, Penta R, Merodio J

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) Vol 45, pp. 1499-1522 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-024-3144-7

Effective double-poroelasticity derived via homogenization of two non-interacting solid phases percolated by a viscous fluid

Miller Laura, Penta Raimondo

European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids Vol 105 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2023.105219

Homogenised governing equations for pre-stressed poroelastic composites

Miller Laura, Di Stefano Salvatore, Grillo Alfio, Penta Raimondo

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics Vol 35, pp. 2275-2300 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-023-01247-3

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Research Interests

I was appointed as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde from November 2024.  Prior to this I was an EPSRC post doctoral prize research fellow at the University of Glasgow (2022-2024). This was after completing my PhD in applied maths also at the University of Glasgow (2018-2022). 

My research in applied mathematics focusses on poroelasticity, composite materials, viscoelasticity, and applications of continuum mechanics models to real world scenarios such as cardiac modelling (electrophysiology, perfusion, and disease) and diseases affecting the eyes. 

My PhD project modelled the perfusion and mechanics of multiscale biological soft tissues. The multiscale models that I derive in my work are obtained via applying homogenization techniques to fluid structure interaction problems that describe the materials at the microstructural level. This allows to obtain systems of partial differential equations that describe the effective behaviour of the tissue/material at the macroscale level. 

As in EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow, I expanded the modelling and solution approaches that I utilise to include mixture theory, statistical sensitivity analyses and techniques to derive analytical solutions. This gives a wide range of approaches that can be selected depending upon the application or the type of information that should be encoded in the model.