Dr James E. Sprittles

My research is concerned with the application of complex mathematical models to a cluster of industrially relevant microfluidic capillary flows. 

I have developed a specially designed computational code to simulate microdrop impact and spreading phenomena, with the main application to inkjet printing technologies.  The flexibility of the code, which for the first time incorporates the interface formation model, allows a variety of wetting flows to be described as well as other free surface flows such as, for example, the coalescence of liquid drops.

During an EPSRC fellowship, I have developed a new theory for the propagation of wetting fronts through porous media which is based on the main 'pore scale' modes of motion and accounts for previously undescribed 'anomalous' experimental results.