Applied and Computational Mathematics Alumni

Here is a selection of our Alumni who have kindly given permission for us to include their PhD thesis on our website. The authors retain their copyright to the PhD theses posted here. Any use made of their work must be acknowledged.

Richard Archibald, Supervisor:  Dr. M. Ruffert

Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers as the Central Engines of Short-Period Gamma-Ray Bursts (19.11 MB PDF)

Jonathan Aspden, Supervisor: Professor J. Vanneste

Inertia-gravity wave generation: a WKB approach (2010) (3.52 MB PDF)

Bubacarr Bah, Supervisor: Professor J. Tanner.

Restricted Isometry Constants in Compressed Sensing (2012) (1.58 MB PDF)

Raffaele Basile, Supervisor: Professor J.Tanner

A graph-based approach for the approximate solution of the chemical master equation (2015) (596.14 KB PDF)

Philip Breen, Supervisor: Professor D. Heggie

Dynamical evolution of idealised star cluster models (2013) (4.51 MB PDF)

Jiajia Cui, Supervisor: Dr. T. Mackay

Nonzero depolarization volumes in electromagnetic homogenization studies (2007) (2.26 MB PDF)

Andrew Duncan, Supervisor: Dr. T. Mackay

On the Estimation of the electromagnetic, elastodynamic, and piezoelectric properties of homogonized composite materials (2009) (1.54 MB PDF)

Siti Suhana Jamaian, Supervisor:  Dr. T. Mackay

Homogenization Studies For Optical Sensors Based on Sculptured Thin Films (2012) (14.61 MB PDF)

Sarah Khwaja, Supervisor: Dr. T. Mackay

Uniform Asymptotic Approximations of Integrals (2014) (2.14 MB PDF)

Hatice Kursungecmez, Supervisor: Professor N. Smyth

Numerical Simulation of Shock Propagation in One and Two Dimensional Domains (2015) (8.49 MB PDF)

John Michael MacNeil

Solitary Waves in Focussing and Defocussing Nonlinear, Nonlocal Optical Media (2016) (1.01 MB PDF)

Charles Matthews, Supervisor: Professor B. Leimkuhler

The error in the invariant measure of numerical discretization schemes for canonical sampling of molecular dynamics (2013) (11.53 MB PDF)

Giacomo Mazzi, Supervisor: Professor B. Leimkuhler

Numerical Treatment of the Liouville-von Neumann Equation for Quantum Spin Dynamics (2010) (599.7 KB PDF)

Stuart Murray, Supervisor:  Professor J. Vanneste

Wave radiation in simple geophysical models (2012) (13.46 MB PDF)

Karen Ogilvie, Supervisor: Dr A  Olde Daalhuis

Rigorous asymptotics for the Lame, Mathieu and spheroidal wave equations with a large parameter (2016) (2.11 MB PDF)

Ben Skuse, Supervisor: Professor N. Smyth

The Interaction and Steering of Nematicons (2010) (3.48 MB PDF)

Hari Sriskantha, Supervisor: Dr M. Ruffert

Pseudo-Newtonian Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers as Possible Progenitors of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (2014) (4.84 MB PDF)

Jin-Han Xie, Supervisor: Professor J. Vanneste

Wave-mean flow interactions: from nanometre to megametre scales (2015) (2.12 MB PDF)