I started life studying rocket combustion and moved into cardiovascular mechanics when I came to Imperial College in 1971. (Stan Corrsin suggested that this makes me uniquely qualified to study heart burn.) The best guide to my research interests are my publications.

Some of my current research interests are:
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Haemodynamics:

• Ventricular-arterial fluid mechanics
• Time-domain representation of ventricular-arterial coupling as a windkessel and wave system
  J.J. Wang, A.B. O'Brien, N.G. Shrive, K.H. Parker and J.V. Tyberg
• The study of waves in the arterial system
• Wave propagation in a model of the human arteries
  J.J. Wang and K.H. Parker
• One-dimensional modelling of a vascular network in space-time variables
  S.J. Sherwin, V. Franke, J. Peiro and K.H. Parker
• Wave intensity
• Determination of wave speed and wave separation in the arteries
  A.W. Khir, A. O'Brien, J.S.R. Gibbs and K.H. Parker
• Analysis of wave reflections in the arterial system using wave intensity: a novel method for predicting the timing and amplitude of reflected waves
  T.W. Koh, J.R. Pepper, A.C. DeSouza and K.H. Parker
• Forward and backward running waves in the arteries: analysis using the method of characteristics
  K.H. Parker and C.J.H. Jones
• Analysis of the retinal vasculature
• Retinal blood vessel segmentation by means of scale-space analysis and region growing
  M.E. Martinez-Perez, A.D. Hughes, A.V. Stanton, S.A. Thom, A.A. Bharath and K.H. Parker
• Retinal vascular tree morphology: a semi-automatic quantification.
  M.E. Martinez-Perez, A.D. Hughes, A.V. Stanton, S.A. Thom, N. Chapman, A.A. Bharath and K.H. Parker

• Cartilage mechanics
• The osmotic pressure of chondroitin sulphate solutions: experimental measurements and theoretical analysis
  S. Erlich, N. Wolff, R. Schneiderman, A. Maroudas, K.H. Parker and C.P. Winlove
• The mechanics of the red-cell membrane
• The deformation of spherical vesicles with permeable, constant-area membranes: application to the red blood cell
  K.H. Parker and C.P. Winlove
• Elasticity of the red cell membrane and its relation to hemolytic disorders: An optical tweezwers study.
  J. Sleep, D. Wilson, R. Simmons and W. Glatzer
• The mechanics of the glycocalyx
• The effect of the glycocalyx on the electrophoretic mobility of red cells and on streaming potentials in blood vessels: predictions of a structurally -based model.
  A.J. Mestel, A.J. Mokady, K.H. Parker and C.P. Winlove
• The mechanical properties of elastin
• Physicochemical properties of arterial elastin and its associated glycoproteins
  M. Spina,A. Friso,A.R. Ewins,K.H. Parker and C.P. Winlove

• Metabolic processes in pregnancy
• Glucose transport and utilisation
• Intrinsic mode analysis of time series data
• Pulmonary artery pressure




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If I had some cheese I would make a cheese sandwich,
If I had some bread. - A. Reiner (circa 1962)