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Welcome to the Computational Multiphysics Research Group!

The Computational Multiphysics (COMPHYS) research group is a multidisciplinary collaborative team focused on challenging computational multiphysics problems of relevance to industry: problems that require custom software, physically sound mathematical models, and numerical methods, and for which salient data are difficult to interpret. Our members combine formal backgrounds in engineering, mathematics, and computer science, and work with collaborators in applied mathematics, physics, and chemical engineering, and with industrial partners.

The group develops and extends continuum-scale models of multiphysics processes, coupled fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and (bio)chemical reactions, across widely separated time and length scales, together with the numerical tools to solve them. A defining theme is the "feedback loop" between computational methods development and real-world applications: applications expose gaps in the underlying formulations, and those gaps drive the next round of model and method development.

The group maintains several open-source software packages implementing the computational methods developed through its research: OpenCMP (finite element multiphysics simulation), OpenCCM (CFD-based compartment modelling), and shapelets (shapelet functions for imaging analysis), with additional tools in development here.