I am a PhD student, here in the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. My research is on simulating swimmers (e.g. motile bacteria) using the Lattice Boltzmann method. My supervisor is Prof. Mike Cates. I also work with Kevin Stratford and Ronojoy Adhikari. Currently we've not got the swimmers working, but I have some preliminary results for sedimenting particles.

In the course of this, I've written my own three-dimensional, 15 velocity LB code, very creatively named D3Q15, which is mostly written in C but has been wrapped in Python using SWIG. Most of the particle motion code is written in Python.

I've also written a simple (and slightly unreliable) protocol for sending data to OpenDX, also with a Python interface, although the protocol is language agnostic. Along with py2dx, that's how I made this movie showing an instability of a 2D lattice of falling particles.

Lucky me, I'm off to Boulder, Colorado, for a summer school at the end of June. My poster is here (949 KB pdf).