Professor Stephen Wilson
Research Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
Personal statement
I have made contributions to the mathematical modelling and analysis of a wide range of problems in fluid mechanics, including thin-film flows, evaporating droplets, rivulets and dry-patches, dielectrophoresis, microfluidics, liquid crystals, non-Newtonian fluids (including viscoplastic fluids, thixotropic fluids and nanofluids), anti-surfactants and self-rewetting fluids, fluid-structure interaction problems, biomechanics, nucleate boiling, confined bubbles, thermocapillary (Marangoni) and thermoviscosity effects, spin coating, magnetohydrodynamics, and fluid impact problems.
The common theme running through all of my work is the use of a range of mathematical (namely asymptotic, analytical and numerical) methods to bring new insights into a wide range of "real world" problems ranging from boiling and evaporation through industrial coating processes to biological systems such as the human knee.
Prize And Awards
- Leader of the winning team at Physics with Industry 2016
- Recipient
- 25/11/2016
- Awarded IoP Printing and Graphics Science Group Prize 2009
- Recipient
- 2009
- Elected to Fellowship of the IMA
- Recipient
- 2008
Publications
- Effect of gravity-induced shape change on the diffusion-limited evaporation of thin sessile and pendant droplets
- D'Ambrosio Hannah-May, Wilson Stephen K, Wray Alexander W, Duffy Brian R
- Physical Review E Vol 111 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045107
- Coating and rimming flow, rivulet flow, and the evaporation of a sessile droplet
- Wilson Stephen K
- Interfacial Flows The Power and Beauty of Asymptotic Methods (2025) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78764-5_6
- A pinned elastic plate on a thin viscous film
- Trinh Philippe H, Wilson Stephen K, Stone Howard A
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 1007 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.11
- The effect of particle–substrate adsorption on the deposition of particles from a thin evaporating sessile droplet
- D'Ambrosio Hannah-May, Wray Alexander W, Wilson Stephen K
- Journal of Engineering Mathematics Vol 151 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-025-10423-0
- Flow manipulation of a nematic liquid crystal in a Hele-Shaw cell with an electrically-controlled viscous obstruction
- Cousins Joseph R L, Bhadwal Akhshay S, Mottram Nigel J, Brown Carl V, Wilson Stephen K
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 996 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.397
- Hele-Shaw flow of a nematic liquid crystal
- Cousins Joseph R L, Mottram Nigel J, Wilson Stephen K
- Physical Review E Vol 110 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.034702
Professional Activities
- BIRS Workshop on Modelling of Thin Liquid Films - Asymptotic Approach vs. Gradient Dynamics
- Speaker
- 28/4/2019
- BIRS Workshop on Mathematical Criminology and Security
- Speaker
- 17/3/2019
- Lorentz Center Workshop on Micro- and Nano-Fluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
- Speaker
- 12/11/2018
- 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC12)
- Speaker
- 9/9/2018
- 3rd UK Fluids Conference 2018
- Speaker
- 4/9/2018
- European Commission - FP7 - European Research Council (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 9/2018
Projects
- Maths DTP 2021/22 University of Strathclyde | Sharp, Henry
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Wray, Alexander (Co-investigator) Sharp, Henry (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- Maths DTP 2021/22 University of Strathclyde | Craig, David
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Wray, Alexander (Co-investigator) Craig, David (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Mills, Laura
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Wray, Alexander (Co-investigator) Mills, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 02-Jan-2023
- Control of free-surface flow morphologies in anisotropic liquids
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023
- Low-order models for thick fluid flows with multiphysics effects
- Wray, Alexander (Principal Investigator) Wilson, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022
- University of Strathclyde NPIF 2018 (NPIF EPSRC Doctoral) | Mitchell, Andrew James
- Wilson, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Duffy, Brian (Co-investigator) Mitchell, Andrew James (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 11-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Stephen
Wilson
Research Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: s.k.wilson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3804