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Alex Lukyanov

Email:
a.lukyanov@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 6441
Job title:
Senior Research Fellow

Responsibilities:

Department Health and Safety Co-ordinator
Fire Warden and Evacuation Officer

Office

Room 101

Building location

Mathematics

Areas of interest

Capillary flows, wetting dynamics and moving contact lines
Complex interfaces and interface dynamics
Capillary transport in porous media

Teaching

Current teaching (2021/22):

Research centres and groups

Complex Fluids and Theoretical Polymer Physics

Websites/blogs

Publications

Calver, E. , Pryer, T. , Lukyanov, A. (2022) Hydraulic jumps & the role of surface tension. Physics Letters A , 451 ISSN: 0375-9601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2022.128418

Lukyanov, A. (2021) Non-locality of the contact line in dynamic wetting phenomena. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science , 608 (2). pp. 2131-2141. ISSN: 0021-9797 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.10.155
Ashby, B. , Bortolozo, C. , Lukyanov, A. , Pryer, T. (2021) Adaptive modelling of variably saturated seepage problems. The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics , 74 (1). pp. 55-81. ISSN: 0033-5614 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbab001

Lukyanov, A. , Mitkin, V. , Pryer, T. , Penpark, S. , Theofanous, T. (2020) Capillary transport in paper porous materials at low saturation levels: normal, fast or superfast?. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 476 (2244). ISSN: 1364-5021 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0488

Sirimark, P. , Lukyanov, A. , Pryer, T. (2019) Surface permeability of particulate porous media. Transport in porous media , 130 (2). pp. 637-654. ISSN: 0169-3913 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11242-019-01332-9
Lukyanov, A. , Mitkin, V. , Theofanous, T. , Baines, M. (2019) Capillary transport in particulate porous media at low levels of saturation. Journal of Applied Physics , 125 ISSN: 0021-8979 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5086869

Sirimark, P. , Lukyanov, A. , Pryer, T. (2018) Surface permeability of porous media particles and capillary transport. The European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter & Biological Physics , 41 (9). ISSN: 1292-895X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2018-11716-6

Lukyanov, A. and Pryer, T. (2017) Hydrodynamics of moving contact lines: macroscopic versus microscopic. Langmuir , 33 (34). pp. 8582-8590. ISSN: 0743-7463 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02409

Lukyanov, A. and Likhtman, A. (2016) Dynamic contact angle at nano-scale: a unified view. ACS Nano , 10 (6). pp. 6045-6053. ISSN: 1936-086X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b01630

Lukyanov, A. and Likhtman, A. (2013) Relaxation of surface tension in the liquid-solid interfaces of Lennard-Jones liquids. Langmuir , 29 (46). pp. 13996-14000. ISSN: 0743-7463 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la403421b
Lukyanov, A. and Likhtman, A. (2013) Relaxation of surface tension in the free-surface boundary layers of simple Lennard-Jones liquids. Journal of Chemical Physics , 138 (3). ISSN: 0021-9606 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4774690

Lukyanov, A. , Shushchikh, M. , Baines, M. , Thoephanus, T. (2012) Superfast nonlinear diffusion: capillary transport in particulate porous media. Physical Review Letters , 109 (21). pp. 214501-214504. ISSN: 0031-9007 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.214501
Lukyanov, A. , Sushchikh, M. , Baines, M. , Theofanous, T. (2012) Superfast non-linear diffusion: capillary transport in particulate porous media. Physical Review Letters , 109 (21). ISSN: 0031-9007 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.214501

Molokov, S. , El , G. , Lukyanov, A. (2011) Classification of instability modes in a model of aluminium reduction cells with a uniform magnetic field . Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics , 25 (5). pp. 261-279. ISSN: 1432-2250 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00162-010-0201-y

Molokov, S. , Lukyanov, A. , El, G. (2010) Stabilisation of liquid metal electrolyte systems. pp 12. | doi: US 2005O121316A1
Lukyanov, A. (2010) Flow-induced dynamic surface tension effects at nanoscale. Langmuir , 26 (9). pp. 6367-6373. ISSN: 0743-7463 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la9040453

Lukyanov, A. (2009) Liquid flow over a substrate structured by seeded nanoparticles. Physics Letters A , 373 (22). pp. 1967 -1971 . ISSN: 0375-9601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2009.04.005
Pedchenko, A. , Molokov, S. , Priede, J. , Lukyanov, A. , Thomas, P. (2009) Experimental model of the interfacial instability in aluminium reduction cells. EPL (Europhysics Letters) , 88 (2). ISSN: 1286-4854 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/24001

Lukyanov, A. , Shikhmurzaev, Y. , King, A. (2008) A combined BIE-FE method for the Stokes equations. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics , 73 (1). pp. 199-224. ISSN: 0272-4960 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxm046

Lukyanov, A. and Shikhmurzaev, Y. (2007) The effect of flow field & geometry on the dynamic contact angle. Physical Review E , 75 ISSN: 1539-3755 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.051604

Lukyanov, A. and Shikhmurzaev, Y. (2006) Curtain coating in microfluidics and the phenomenon of nonlocality in dynamic wetting. Physics Letters A , 358 (5-6). pp. 426-430. ISSN: 0375-9601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2006.05.048
Lammer, H. , Lichtenegger, H. , Biernat, H. , Erkaev, N. , Arshukova, I. , Kolb, C. , Gunel, H. , Lukyanov, A. , Holmstrom, M. , Barabash, S. , Zhang, T. , Baumjohann, W. (2006) Loss of hydrogen and oxygen from the upper atmosphere of Venus. Planetary and Space Science , 54 pp. 1445-1456. ISSN: 0032-0633 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2006.04.022

Gurevich, A. , Lukyanov, A. , Zybin, K. , Roussel-Duprè, R. (2002) Spherical symmetrical approach to the theory of runaway breakdown. In: Kortshagen, U. and Tsendin, L. , (eds.) Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges. NATO Science Series: B , 367. Springer, Boston, MA pp. 19-35. ISBN: 9780306470769 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47076-4_2