Dr. James Percival is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Applied Modelling and Computation Group at Imperial College London. His research interests include the mathematics and numerical modelling of multiphase and multi material fluid flows, with particular interests in novel mixed finite element -control volume representations. For the past year he has been a lead developer on the fully compressible multi material branch of FLUIDITY, the group’s finite element, open source, general purpose, multi-phase flow code.