Dr David Pritchard
Senior Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am an applied mathematician with an interest in fluid dynamics, especially applied to the earth sciences. I have particular interests in non-Newtonian fluids, in flow in porous media, and in sediment transport in environmental flows. I am also interested in the inclusion of ethics and history in mathematics education, and in the school-university interface.
I am currently the Postgraduate Research Director for the department. If you have any questions about PGR matters that aren't answered on our postgraduate research page then please feel free to contact me.
In the academic year 2024-25 I am the lecturer in charge of MM146 (Mathematics in Society), MM305 (Mechanics of Rigid Bodies and Fluids), and MM554 (Applied Mathematics Methods 1). I also lecture on and lead the SMSTC module "Asymptotic and Analytical Methods".
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Publications
- Natural convection and the evolution of a reactive porous medium
- Ritchie Lindsey Thomson, Pritchard David
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 673, pp. 286-317 (2011)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112010006269
- Uplift histories from river profiles
- Pritchard D, Roberts G G, White N J, Richardson C N
- Geophysical Research Letters Vol 36 (2009)
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040928
- The linear stability of double-diffusive miscible rectilinear displacements in a Hele-Shaw cell
- Pritchard D
- European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids Vol 28, pp. 564-577 (2009)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2009.01.004
- Gravity currents over fractured substrates in a porous medium
- Pritchard David
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 584, pp. 415-431 (2007)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112007006623
- On the transport of suspended sediment by a swash event on a plane beach
- Pritchard David, Hogg Andrew J
- Coastal Engineering Vol 52, pp. 1-23 (2005)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2004.08.002
- The effects of hydraulic resistance on dam-break and other shallow inertial flows
- Hogg Andrew J, Pritchard David
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 501, pp. 179-212 (2004)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112003007468
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Professional Activities
- Breaking the Mould: Embracing Dis/ability in Mathematics, Statistics and Life
- Organiser
- 17/6/2025
- Mathematics & Statistics Teaching Away Day
- Invited speaker
- 22/5/2024
- "A meruaylous newtralitie"? Contextualising the maths curriculum
- Speaker
- 24/4/2024
- British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) 2016
- Invited speaker
- 6/4/2016
- Focussed Research Group on Geophysical Viscoplastic Flows
- Invited speaker
- 10/2015
- 28th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting
- Speaker
- 28/5/2015
Projects
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Schofield, Feargus
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Pritchard, David (Co-investigator) Schofield, Feargus (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 28-Jan-2021
- EPSRC Institutional Sponsorship: Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) / R160677-114
- Pritchard, David (Principal Investigator) Corson, Stephen (Co-investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Wilson, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
- Mechanistic modelling of smouldering remediation to evaluate its effects on soil properties and interactions with groundwater
- Switzer, Christine (Principal Investigator) Corson, Lindsey (Principal Investigator) Pritchard, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 16-Jan-2016
- Setting fire to soil: modelling smouldering remediation to evaluate its effects on soil properties
- Pritchard, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 16-Jan-2016
- EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant - DTA, University of Strathclyde | Croudace, Andrew
- Pritchard, David (Principal Investigator) Wilson, Stephen (Co-investigator) Croudace, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 03-Jan-2019
- BTG: New connections in particles and fluids—from fracking and foods, to bacteria and blood
- Haw, Mark (Principal Investigator) Shipton, Zoe K. (Co-investigator) Zagnoni, Michele (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Fletcher, Ashleigh (Co-investigator) Corney, Jonathan (Co-investigator) Zhang, Yonghao (Co-investigator) Pritchard, David (Co-investigator) El Mountassir, Grainne (Co-investigator)
- A wide range of applications in science and engineering, including fracking, oil and gas extraction, design of pumps, water treatment, continuous crystallization for pharmaceuticals, geological phenomena, settling and separation, nuclear waste storage and processing, bacterial transport, biodiagnostics, and blood and other biological flows, involve the flow, processing and transport of systems of particles suspended in fluids. Applications involve a range of scales from microns to tens of metres and a range of particle concentrations from ‘dilute’ to concentrated. There is a wide but disparate range of relevant expertise across Strathclyde. The aim of this one-day BTG workshop and half-day follow-up is to bring this research community together, to identify innovative ideas and solutions across these applications, and to promote novel themes for funding proposals, high-impact publications, industrial and public engagement, knowledge exchange, and CPD.
- 01-Jan-2014 - 30-Jan-2014
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Contact
Dr
David
Pritchard
Senior Teaching Fellow
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: david.pritchard@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804