
Dr. Sam Mallinson is an Industrial Engineering Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. His research interests include fluid mechanics, heat transfer, structural mechanics, with coupling between these fields of particular interest.
His main focus is in the area of inkjet physics: bubble generation, droplet ejection, print-zone aerodynamics, evaporation and condensation, capillarity and wetting, ink-media interaction, ink mixture material properties, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics.
He has significant expertise in computational modelling, an in particular, use of open source computer-aided engineering tools, such as OpenFOAM, FreeCAD, Gmsh, FreeFem++, SurfaceEvolver paraview and python. He is also an experienced user of the ANSYS suite of tools.
He can propose the following topics for thesis and HDR students:
see Suppressing tiger stripes: Taming flow oscillations to improve print quality