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Dr Adam Townsend's Outputs (6)

Undulatory swimming in suspensions and networks of flexible filaments (2024)
Journal Article
Townsend, A., & Keaveny, E. (2024). Undulatory swimming in suspensions and networks of flexible filaments. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 993, Article A10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.603

Many biological fluids are composed of suspended polymers immersed in a viscous fluid. A prime example is mucus, where the polymers are also known to form a network. While the presence of this microstructure is linked with an overall non-Newtonian re... Read More about Undulatory swimming in suspensions and networks of flexible filaments.

Generating, from scratch, the near-field asymptotic forms of scalar resistance functions for two unequal rigid spheres in low Reynolds number flow (2023)
Journal Article
Townsend, A. K. (2023). Generating, from scratch, the near-field asymptotic forms of scalar resistance functions for two unequal rigid spheres in low Reynolds number flow. Physics of Fluids, 35(12), Article 127126. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0175697

The motion of rigid spherical particles suspended in a low Reynolds number fluid can be related to the forces, torques and stresslets acting upon them by 22 scalar resistance functions, commonly notated $X^A_{11}$, $X^A_{12}$, $Y^A_{11}$, etc. Near-f... Read More about Generating, from scratch, the near-field asymptotic forms of scalar resistance functions for two unequal rigid spheres in low Reynolds number flow.

VisualPDE: Rapid Interactive Simulations of Partial Differential Equations (2023)
Journal Article
Walker, B. J., Townsend, A. K., Chudasama, A. K., & Krause, A. L. (2023). VisualPDE: Rapid Interactive Simulations of Partial Differential Equations. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 85(11), Article 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-023-01218-4

Computing has revolutionised the study of complex nonlinear systems, both by allowing us to solve previously intractable models and through the ability to visualise solutions in different ways. Using ubiquitous computing infrastructure, we provide a... Read More about VisualPDE: Rapid Interactive Simulations of Partial Differential Equations.

Going round in circles: Geometry in the early years (2023)
Journal Article
Oughton, R. H., Wheadon, D. M., Bolden, D. S., Nichols, K., Fearn, S., Darwin, S., Dixon-Jones, S., Mistry, M., Peyerimhoff, N., & Townsend, A. (2023). Going round in circles: Geometry in the early years. Mathematics teaching, 286, 29-34

The research described here came from a collaboration between university-based mathematicians and early years (EY) educators. The project emerged naturally, driven by the felt need of the EY educators to develop a broader understanding and appreciati... Read More about Going round in circles: Geometry in the early years.

Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: A collaborative study between early years teachers and University-based mathematicians (2022)
Journal Article
Oughton, R., Nichols, K., Bolden, D. S., Dixon-Jones, S., Fearn, S., Darwin, S., Mistry, M., Peyerimhoff, N., & Townsend, A. (2024). Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: A collaborative study between early years teachers and University-based mathematicians. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 26(3), 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2022.2119497

Mathematics in early years settings is often restricted to learning to count and identifying simple shapes. This is partly due to the narrow scope of many early years curricula and insufficient teacher training for exploring deeper mathematical conce... Read More about Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: A collaborative study between early years teachers and University-based mathematicians.