Four threads run through my work. The first three are what I do at IFE today; the fourth is where the methods came from.
Live models of real production lines. I combine physics-based simulation with sensor data so operators can see what is happening inside a die, a mould or a casting line, and act on it.
Thermo-mechanical and flow models of material processing, built to run inside industrial projects rather than only in papers.
Teams of LLM agents that read a problem in plain language, build the mesh, run the solver and check the result, backed by a knowledge graph of the physics.
Where I started: kinetic and fluid simulation of plasma sheaths, probes and spacecraft charging, from laboratory devices to the ionosphere and the Moon.
The Rashid rover carried a Langmuir probe from the University of Oslo to study the plasma and dust environment at the lunar surface. I modelled the probe's response to the photoelectron sheath.
Space Science Reviews paper, 2025 Nature news Going to the Moon
A nanosatellite constellation for mapping the geomagnetic field and ionospheric environment. I worked on simulations of the multi-needle Langmuir probe design.
A proposed low-flying spacecraft to explore the lower thermosphere and ionosphere, where collisions between charged and neutral particles change how probes respond.
Most of my research runs on code I wrote or helped extend. These are the ones that are public.
I have also worked with the kinetic codes PTetra, PUNC++, PINC, XOOPIC, Gkeyll, OpenFOAM.