Nigel Wilding

Nigel Wilding, after obtaining his degree in physics (with first-class honor) from Edinburgh University in 1988, stayed in Edinburgh to pursue his Ph.D. degree on “structural patterns at phase transitions”, which he completed in early 1992. He then spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, before moving to the Institute of Physics at Mainz University, where he worked with K. Binder for 3 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1996, he returned to the Physics Department at Edinburgh University to take up a Personal Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1999, he became a temporary Lecturer at Edinburgh University before moving in 2000 to take up a permanent lectureship at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool University. In January 2002, he was appointed to a lectureship at the Department of Physics, University of Bath, and became a Reader in May 2004. He specializes in Monte Carlo simulation studies of phase transitions in simple and complex fluids. He is also interested in the development of novel simulation methods for bridging time and length scales in complex fluids.

Biography Updated on 27 March 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Phase behavior of a fluid with competing attractive and repulsive interactions
    Physical Review E, vol. 76, no. 3, 2007
  2. Condensation in a Capped Capillary is a Continuous Critical Phenomenon
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 22, 2007
  3. Phase behaviour of a symmetrical binary mixture in a field
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 234–240, 2006
  4. Influence of polydispersity on the critical parameters of an effective-potential model for asymmetric hard-sphere mixtures
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 3, 2006
  5. Simulation estimates of cloud points of polydisperse fluids
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 4, 2006
  6. Metastable liquid-liquid coexistence and density anomalies in a core-softened fluid
    Physical Review E, vol. 73, no. 6, 2006
  7. Simulation of Phase Transitions in Highly Asymmetric Fluid Mixtures
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 97, no. 11, 2006
  8. Wetting Transitions in Polydisperse Fluids
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 97, no. 13, 2006
  9. Freezing line of the Lennard-Jones fluid: A phase switch Monte Carlo study
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 124, no. 6, p. 064504, 2006
  10. Phase behavior and particle size cutoff effects in polydisperse fluids
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 1, p. 014908, 2006
  11. Phase behavior of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 125, no. 23, p. 234503, 2006
  12. Liquid–vapour phase behaviour of a polydisperse Lennard-Jones fluid
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 17, no. 45, pp. S3245–S3252, 2005
  13. Liquid-vapor interface of a polydisperse fluid
    Physical Review E, vol. 71, no. 6, 2005
  14. Finite-Size Scaling and Particle-Size Cutoff Effects in Phase-Separating Polydisperse Fluids
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 15, 2005
  15. Phase equilibria and fractionation in a polydisperse fluid
    Europhysics Letters (EPL), vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 219–225, 2004
  16. Liquid-gas coexistence and critical point shifts in size-disperse fluids
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 121, no. 14, p. 6887, 2004
  17. Polydisperse hard spheres at a hard wall
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 121, no. 22, p. 11362, 2004
  18. Effects of weak surface fields on the density profiles and adsorption of a confined fluid near bulk criticality
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 16, p. 8663, 2003
  19. A nonequilibrium Monte Carlo approach to potential refinement in inverse problems
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 119, no. 23, p. 12163, 2003
  20. Continuous demixing at liquid-vapor coexistence in a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
    Physical Review E, vol. 67, no. 5, 2003
  21. Phase behavior and thermodynamic anomalies of core-softened fluids
    Physical Review E, vol. 66, no. 3, 2002
  22. The Lennard-Jones-Devonshire cell model revisited
    Molecular Physics, vol. 100, no. 10, pp. 1641–1644, 2002
  23. Wetting of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture on a wall
    Computer Physics Communications, vol. 147, no. 1-2, pp. 149–153, 2002
  24. A new simulation approach to the freezing transition
    Computer Physics Communications, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 99–106, 2002
  25. Grand canonical ensemble simulation studies of polydisperse fluids
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 116, no. 16, p. 7116, 2002
  26. Liquid-gas phase behavior of an argon-like fluid modelled by the hard-core two-Yukawa potential
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 115, no. 6, p. 2702, 2001
  27. Computer simulation of fluid phase transitions
    American Journal of Physics, vol. 69, no. 11, p. 1147, 2001
  28. Freezing by Monte Carlo Phase Switch
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 85, no. 24, pp. 5138–5141, 2000
  29. Monte Carlo investigations of phase transitions: status and perspectives
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 281, no. 1-4, pp. 112–128, 2000
  30. Lattice-switch Monte Carlo method
    Physical Review E, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 906–919, 2000
  31. Absence of simulation evidence for critical depletion in slit pores
    Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1081–1083, 1999
  32. Critical-point finite-size scaling in the microcanonical ensemble
    Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 3748–3760, 1999
  33. Effects of confinement on critical adsorption: Absence of critical depletion for fluids in slit pores
    Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 7105–7119, 1999
  34. Recoil growth: An efficient simulation method for multi-polymer systems
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 110, no. 6, p. 3220, 1999
  35. A liquid-state theory that remains successful in the critical region
    Molecular Physics, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 483–494, 1998
  36. Effect of criticality on wetting layers: A Monte Carlo simulation study
    Physical Review E, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 5795–5801, 1998
  37. Liquid-vapor phase behavior of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
    Physical Review E, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 2201–2212, 1998
  38. Critical end point behavior in a binary fluid mixture
    Physical Review E, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 6624–6631, 1997
  39. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 585–612, 1997
  40. Coexistence Curve Singularities at Critical End Points
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 78, no. 8, pp. 1488–1491, 1997
  41. Free Energy of Crystalline Solids: A Lattice-Switch Monte Carlo Method
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 79, no. 16, pp. 3002–3005, 1997
  42. Tricritical universality in a two-dimensional spin fluid
    Physical Review E, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 926–934, 1996
  43. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 8, no. 47, pp. 9637–9641, 1996
  44. Finite-size scaling for near-critical continuum fluids at constant pressure
    Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 231, no. 4, pp. 439–447, 1996
  45. Chain length dependence of the polymer–solvent critical point parameters
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 802, 1996
  46. Domain growth and finite-size-scaling in the kinetic Ising model
    Zeitschrift f�r Physik B Condensed Matter, vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 301–309, 1994
  47. A Monte Carlo study of the Ising model with uniaxial anisotropy
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 51–56, 1994
  48. Scientific modeling with massively parallel SIMD computers
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 574–585, 1991
  49. Pressure dependence of the structure of La-Sr-Cu-O
    Physica C: Superconductivity, vol. 166, no. 3-4, pp. 329–333, 1990