Dr Tom Flint completed his Doctorate in Nuclear Engineering in 2016 at The University of Manchester, developing novel heat source descriptions for power beam welding applications and methods to solve for the thermal fields due to these sources analytically. Since completing his PhD, Tom has been developing mathematical frameworks to describe how multi-component substrates behave when they go through fusion and vapourisation state transitions in the presence of electromagnetic fields.
Tom is also interested in how the polycrystalline structure in metallic substrates evolves when subjected to high energy density thermal loads, and develops phase-field frameworks to investigate this numerically.
Tom joined the Department of Materials at The University of Manchester in January 2022 as a DSTL sponsored Research Fellow and member of academic staff. Tom leads the microstructure modelling activities in NEWAM.