Details of research grants

Project titleFundingDatesNotes
Machine-aided general framework for fluctuating dynamic density functional theory (MAGFFDDFT) ERC
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€1,781,000 

June 2023
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May 2028 

PI Serafim Kalliadasis. ERC Frontier Research Advanced Investigator Grant 
Nonlinear dynamics of microscale interfacial flows and model nonlinear partial differential equations EPSRC
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£46,000
Jul 2015
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Sept 2015
 Overseas Travel Grant
Fluid processes in smart microengineered devices: Hydrodynamics and thermodynamics in microspace EPSRC
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£1,335,000
Jan 2015
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Jan 2019
PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort with Prof Amparo Galindo (Chem. Eng., IC), Profs Aseterios Gavriilidis and Eva Sorensen (Chem. Eng., UCL), and Dr Marc Pradas (Mathematics and Statistics Dept., Open University).
Statistical mechanics of soft matter: Derivation, analysis and implementation of dynamic density functional theories EPSRC
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£473,840
Nov 2014
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Nov 2017
PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort with Dr Ben Goddard (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) and Prof Greg Pavliotis, (Mathematics, Imperial College London).
Multiscale Analysis of Complex Interfacial Phenomena (MACIPh): Coarse graining, molecular modelling, stochasticity, and experimentation EPSRC
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£2,020,000
Jun 2014
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Jun 2019
Platform Grant. PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort by a team from the departments of Chemical Engineering (Dr Joao Cabral, Prof Geoff Hewitt, Prof Sergei Kazarian, Dr Christos Markides, Prof Omar Matar, Prof Erich Muller) and Mathematics (Prof Richard Craster, Prof Demetrios Papageorgiou, Prof Andrew Parry, Dr Greg Pavliotis).
Complex interfacial flows with heat transfer: Analysis, direct numerical simulations and experiments EPSRC
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£783,000
Jul 2013
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Jun 2016
PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort with Drs Christos Markides and Berend van Wachem, Imperial College London.
Development of an innovative, continuous ozonolysis platform for sustainable chemical manufacturing EPSRC
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£118,000
Dec 2012
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Dec 2014
Collaborative effort with GSK, HEL Limited and Professor Aseterios Gavriilidis, UCL
Active-dissipative nonlinear spatially extended media: Complexity, coarse-graining, multiscale analysis and numerical methods  EPSRC
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£463,000
Oct 2010
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Oct 2013
PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort with Dr Greg Pavliotis, School of Mathematics, Imperial College London.
Complex Interfacial Flows: From the Nano- to the Macro-Scale ERC

€1,300,000 
Apr 2010
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April 2015 
 ERC Advanced Investigatior Grant
Multiflow EU Framework Programme 7
(Marie Curie Training Network)

€6,200,000
Jan 2009
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Jan 2013
Collaborative effort with the following academic institutions and SMEs:

Loughborough University, UK
(Dr Uwe ThieleProfessor Victor Starov);

Université Libre de  Bruxelles, Belgium
(Professors Pierre ColinetAnne de Wit);

Universidad Complutence  de Madrid, Spain
(Professor Manuel Velarde);

CNRS Paris, Fr ance
(Dr Christian Ruyer-Quil
Professor Dominique Salin);

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
(Professors Alex Oron,
Alex Nepomnyashchy
);

Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany
(Professor Marcus Müller);

University of Thessaly, Greece
(Professor Vasilis Bontozoglou);

ASCOMP GMBH, Switzerland
(Dr Djamel Lakehal);

Olympus Life Science Research Europa GMBH, Germany
(Dr Zeno G ut te nberg).
Interfacial Turbulence in Falling Liquid Films EPSRC
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£160,000
Feb 2008
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Feb 2010
 
Advanced Experimental and Numerical Methods for the Prediction of Complex Gas-Liquid Annular Flows  EPSRC
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£510,000.
Sep 2007
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Sept 2010
Collaborative effort with Professors Geoff Hewitt, Chris Lawrence, Omar Matar, Dr Peter Spelt, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London and Professor Alex Taylor, Dr Yannis Hardalupas, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.
Predictive Analysis of Complex Interfacial Flows
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Platform Grant
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£1,008,000
Oct 2007
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Sep 2012
Collaborative effort with Professors Geoff Hewitt, Sergei Kazarian, Chris Lawrence, Omar Matar, Drs Alex Bismarck, Fery Stepanek, Peter Spelt, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London and Professor Richard Craster, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London.
Coherent Structures Theory of Interacting Solitary Waves in Thin Liquid Films Alliance , Franco-British Research Partnership Programme
£12,000
Oct 2006
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Oct 2008
Collaborative effort with Dr Christian Ruyer-Quil, Laboratoire FAST, UMR CNRS, Université Paris VI and Paris XI, Paris, France.  Travel Grant to fund visits between London and Paris.
Pattern Formation Driven by Coupled Hydrodynamic and Reaction-Diffusion Instabilities
EPSRC
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£157,000
Nov 2004
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Nov 2007
 
Dynamics of Free-Surface Thin Film Flows EPSRC Advanced Fellowship
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£240,000
Jan 2004
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Jan 2009
 
Interfacial instabilities of viscoelastic flows Dow Benelux B.V.
£41,000
Dec 2002
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Apr 2006
 
Thermocapillary instability of a thin liquid film heated from below EPSRC
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£146,000
Nov 2002
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Nov 2005
 
Nonlinear waves and flooding in counter-current gas-liquid flows EPSRC
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£11,500
Oct 2001
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Dec 2001
Visiting Fellowship undertaken by Professor Eugene Demekhin, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, USA.
Inhibition of flame propagation EPSRC
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£126,000
Oct 2000
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Oct 2003
Collaborative effort with Professor John Merkin, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds and Professor Steve Scott, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds.
Wetting of imperfect surfaces EPSRC
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£12,000
Oct 1998
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Sep 1999
Visiting Fellowship undertaken by Professor Bud Homsy, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.  Collaborative effort with Professor Phil Gaskell, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds and Professor Mike Savage, School of P hysics and Astronomy, University of Leeds.
Dynamics of free-surface thin film flows over topography EPSRC
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£10,500
Jul 2000
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Sep 2000
Overseas Travel Grant to visit Stan ford University, USA.
Experimental investigation of forced liquid spreading over patterned surfaces EPSRC
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£161,00 0
Jun 2000
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Jun 2003
Collaborative effort with Professor Phil Gaskell, School of Mechanical Engineering, Leeds University and Professor Steve Evans, School of Physics and Astronomy, Leeds University.
Competition between circulation and reaction enhancement of he at/mass tran sport in a falling film EPSRC
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£138,000
Nov 1999
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Nov 2002
Collaborative effort with Professor Steve Scott, School of Chemistry, Leeds University.
Air entrainment in liquid coating EPSRC
Fast Stream
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£37,000
Aug 1998
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Aug 2001
 
Wavy flow of liquid films under complicated condi tions
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€120,000
May 2000 --
May 2003
PI Serafim Kalliadasis and collaborative effort with Professor Sergey Alekseenko, Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr Oleg Tsvelodub, Faculty of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia, Professor E.N. Kalaidin, Department of Applied Mathematics, Kuban State Technological University, Russia and Professor Vasilis Bontozoglou, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece.