Hilary Weller

Dr. Hilary Weller is an Associate Professor in Meteorology and Computational Atmospheric Dynamics at the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology. Their research focuses on numerical methods for atmospheric modelling, including adaptive meshes, finite volume methods, and multi-fluid approaches for convection. Dr. Weller leads projects such as the Moving Meshes for Global Atmospheric Modelling initiative and contributes to the Gung Ho project for the UK's next-generation atmospheric model development.

Research Interests:

• Numerical methods for atmospheric flows
• Adaptive mesh techniques
• Multi-fluid convection modelling
• Implicit time stepping for long time steps
• Mesh adaptation on spherical geometries

Key Projects:

• Moving Meshes for Global Atmospheric Modelling (NERC-funded)
• Gung Ho: UK's dynamical core development
• Development of the AtmosFOAM framework for atmospheric simulations

Advising: Current and past students include James Shaw (PhD on mountain representation), Amber te Winkel (implicit advection), and James Woodfield (conservative monotone schemes).

Labs/Tools: Creator of AtmosFOAM, an OpenFOAM-based toolset for atmospheric modelling with capabilities in mesh redistribution and optimal transport.