Roger Smith
Professor of Mathematical Engineering
Research Interests
Long time scale Dynamics, growth and defect accumulation
Molecular
Dynamics simulations of metals, polymers and covalent materials
and modelling surface effects
Radiation damage phenomena
Recent Research Grants
Nanoindentation and Nanofriction EPSRC October 2001- October 2004; Pro Inno project with University of Applied Sciences Wildau, June 2003-June 2004; Royal Society joint project grant July 2005- June 2007.
Modelling Intergranular Segregation in Nuclear Pressure Vessel ferritic steels EPSRC October 2001-October 2004 with Roy Faulkner
Radiation effects in ionic materials and oxides. Funding from Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 2003- September 2009
Ion implantation of Mercury Cadmium Telluride. Royal Society joint project grant with Tomsk State University, January 2003 - December 2004.
A multiscale modelling approach to engineering functional coatings, EPSRC October 2005 - September 2009, with Steven Kenny and 4 other universities.
Radiation damage in heavy metals, AWE October 2006 - September 2009 with Steven Kenny
London Mathematical Society Meeting Grant "Waves Pollution and Modelling" September 2006.
Modelling Radiation with Robin Grimes at Imperial College and Los Alamos EPSRC September 2007- March 2009.
Structure of the Interstellar Medium EPSRC January 2008 - January 2009.
PERFORM 60 An EU funded project, concerned with nuclear energy March 2009 - February 2013 with Steven Kenny
PROMINENT An EPSRC funded project, concerned with nuclear energy July 2010 - July 2014 with Steven Kenny
Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award (thermal barrier coatings) February 2010 - December 2010
EPSRC grant with Oxford University January UK-India Nuclear collaboration 2011 - December 2014, also with investigators, Chris Grovenor (Oxford) and Steven Kenny
EPSRC grant January 1 - March 31 2012 Feasibility study of the use analytical models for CdTe sputter grown coatings
Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems Dresden, Workshop " Beyond Molecular Dynamics" 26-29 March 2012, with Matthias Posselt and Charlotte Becquart as joint organisers
Research Students Academic Year 2011/2012
Sabrina Blackwell, Chris Scott, Tomas Lazauskas, Xiao Gai, Miao Yu
See the book "Atomic and ion collisions in solids and at surfaces", R. Smith, Cambridge University Press 1997, republished in paperback 2005.
Teaching Duties Academic Year 2011/2012
MAC175 Operational Research
MAA303 Mathematics for Electrical Engineering
Course tutor for the MSc course "Industrial Mathematical Modelling"
Course tutor for the exchange programme with the University of Minnesota, Duluth
Other Interests
The world's greatest game Rugby League and one of the most entertaining teams.See old campus images here
Last updated October 2011.