Linear Instability of Tilted Parallel Shear Flow in a Strongly Stratified and Viscous Medium
Lloyd Fung, Yongyun Hwang, "Linear Instability of Tilted Parallel Shear Flow in a Strongly Stratified and Viscous Medium." JMST Advances, 2020.
CV
Employment
- 2024- : Imperial College Research Fellow at Imperial College London
- Attached to the Department of Aeronautics and IX
- Supervisor: Prof. Luca Magri
- 2024-2024: Research Associate at the Alan Turing Institute
- Attached to the Department of Engineering, the U of Cambridge
- Supervisor: Prof. Matthew Juniper
- 2021-2024: Research Fellow at Peterhouse, U of Cambridge
- Attached to the Mathematical Biology group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Centre for Mathematical Sciences
- Supervisors: Prof. Raymond Goldstein, Prof. Eric Lauga
Education
- M.Eng. in Aeronautical Engineering (with a Year in Industry), Imperial College London, 2017 (1st Hon.)
- Ph.D in Aeronautics Research, Imperial College London, 2022
Other industry experience
- 2014-2015: Rolls-Royce, Plc. (Aerospace)
- Stress Engineer at Rotatives
- Summer 2015: Cummins Turbo Technology (Automatives)
- Engineer at Advance Engineering (Future Projects)
- Summer 2016: Imperial Consultant (Civil Engineer)
- Research consulatant for a project in next-gen railway and tunneling technology
Scholarships, Awards and Funds
- 2024-28: Imperial College Research Fellowship, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2021-24: Peterhouse Research Fellow
- 2017-21: Imperial College President’s PhD Scholarship
- 2012-17: BeiShanTang Foundation Scholarship
- 2015: Aeronautics Scholar, Dept. of Aeronautics, ICL
Publications
Bifurcation and Stability of Downflowing Gyrotactic Micro-Organism Suspensions in a Vertical Pipe
Lloyd Fung, Rachel Bearon, Yongyun Hwang, "Bifurcation and Stability of Downflowing Gyrotactic Micro-Organism Suspensions in a Vertical Pipe." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020.
A Sequence of Transcritical Bifurcations in a Suspension of Gyrotactic Microswimmers in Vertical Pipe
Lloyd Fung, Yongyun Hwang, "A Sequence of Transcritical Bifurcations in a Suspension of Gyrotactic Microswimmers in Vertical Pipe." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020.
A Local Approximation Model for Macroscale Transport of Biased Active Brownian Particles in a Flowing Suspension
Lloyd Fung, Rachel Bearon, Yongyun Hwang, "A Local Approximation Model for Macroscale Transport of Biased Active Brownian Particles in a Flowing Suspension." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022.
Instability of Tilted Shear Flow in a Strongly Stratified and Viscous Medium
Lloyd Fung, Yongyun Hwang, "Instability of Tilted Shear Flow in a Strongly Stratified and Viscous Medium." In the proceedings of IUTAM Laminar-Turbulent Transition, 2022.
Analogy between Streamers in Sinking Spheroids, Gyrotactic Plumes and Chemotactic Collapse
Lloyd Fung, "Analogy between Streamers in Sinking Spheroids, Gyrotactic Plumes and Chemotactic Collapse." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023.
Swimming, Feeding and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets
Lloyd Fung, Adam Konkol, Takuji Ishikawa, Ben Larson, Thibaut Brunet, Raymond Goldstein, "Swimming, Feeding and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets." Physical Review Letters, 2023.
Foundation and challenges in modelling Dilute Active Suspensions
Lloyd Fung, Hakan O. Caldag, Martin A. Bees, "Rapid Bayesian identification of sparse nonlinear dynamics from scarce and noisy data." arXiv, 2024.
Rapid Bayesian identification of sparse nonlinear dynamics from scarce and noisy data
Lloyd Fung, Urban Fasel, Matthew Juniper, "Rapid Bayesian identification of sparse nonlinear dynamics from scarce and noisy data." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2025.
Community and Research Culture
- Active member of the BioActive Fluids SIG
- Organising committee of BioActive Fluids SIG ECR-only seminar series (2023-24)
- Co-organiser of the DAMTP Biolunch seminar series (2023-24)
- Regular reviewer for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, Water Resource Research (see ORCiD).
Teaching
Highlighted talks and workshops
Continuum models for active suspension
Workshops at Biofilm and Bioactive Fluids ECR Day, Liverpool, UK (Online)
NFFDy Summer Programme 2024: Bayesian Data assimilation and Model Selection
Workshops at Fluid Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK