PhD students
Marine graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (France) before joining Schlumberger as a Field Engineer in Brazil. She now works as a Researcher at Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre and is finishing her PhD on gas-liquid flows in centrifugal pumps at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. She approaches complex industrial fluid problems through the confrontation of experiments and modelling. Her interests are in hydrodynamics, flow loops, multiphase flows, and flow measurement.
Adrien received a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from UTC Compiègne, France, having studied two years abroad at the TU Vienna, DLR Stuttgart and University of Illinois at Urbana Champain, where he wrote his thesis on the hydrodynamics of suspensions of active particles. He then obtained a MSc in Fluid Dynamics from Ecole Polytechnique on numerical estimations of tidal dissipation in the deep ocean. In 2014, Adrien joined DAMTP, University of Cambridge as a PhD student. As part of the MUST project he performs laboratory experiments on the stratified shear flow in an inclined duct, using simultaneous, time-resolved, volumetric measurements of velocity and density. He is mainly interested in elucidating the stability, nonlinear waves, turbulent transition and mixing of such flows.
Niall completed his BSc in Applied Mathematics at the National University of Ireland, Galway and MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford. His current research interests involve fluid-structure interaction and fracture propagation. During his PhD, Niall experimentally explores fluid-driven fractures in hydrogels. We have produced novel experiments, which allows observation of a rich parameter space, and provides new insights into complicated physical processes.
