Dr Peter Stewart

Dr Peter Stewart

Dr Peter Stewart

PhD, MMath

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

eMail: Peter [dot] Stewart [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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CV: stewart_cv.pdf

Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 615172

Office: RI.2.6c

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests: 

Mechanical ventilation of premature neonates (with OE Jensen, The University of Manchester)

Self-excited oscillations linked to Korotkoff noises during sphygmomanometry (with OE Jensen, SL Waters, The University of Oxford, and M Heil, The University of Manchester)

Measuring cerebrsopinal fluid pressure in the brain using the retinal pulse (with OE Jensen and A Foss, The University of Nottingham)

Dynamics and stability of metallic gas-liquid foams (with SH Davis, Northwestern University)

Separation of chiral enantiomers using shear flow (with TM Hermans, SH Davis, BA Gryzbowski, Northwestern University)

Void propagation through aqueous foams (with S Hilgenfeldt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Collective motion of swimming micro-organisms (with TJ Pedley, The University of Cambridge)

Brain mechanics, with particular interest in cortex folding and pattern formation (with A Goriely, SL Waters, D Vella, The University of Oxford and T El Sayed and K Khan, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Pattern formation in swelling polymeric gels (with S Chaieb, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Prizes, Awards and Scholarships: 

David Crighton Fellowship at The Univerisity of Cambridge (Nov 2009-Jan 2010)

Major/Recent Publications: 

PSS, S.H. Davis and S. Hilgenfeldt, Viscous Rayleigh-Taylor instability in aqueous foams, submitted

T.M. Hermans, PSS, S.H. Davis and B.A. Gryzbowski, Vortex flows impart chirality-specific lift forces, submitted

M.J. Davis, PSS and S.H. Davis, Local effects of gravity on foams, submitted

PSS and S.H. Davis, Self-similar coalescence of clean foams, J. Fluid Mech. 722, 645 (2013).

PSS and S.H. Davis, Dynamics and stability of metallic foams: network modelling J. Rheol. 56, 543 (2012). 

PSS, M. Heil, S.L. Waters and O.E. Jensen, Sloshing and slamming oscillations in collapsible channel flow J. Fluid Mech. 662, 288 (2010).

PSS, S.L. Waters and O.E. Jensen, Local instabilities of flow in a flexible channel: Asymmetric flutter driven by a weak critical layer, Phys. Fluids 031902 (2010).

PSS, S.L. Waters and O.E. Jensen, Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids 28, 541 (2009)

Teaching: 

Intercollegiate classes:

C6a Perturbation Methods (Michaelmas term) (2011-2012)

B21a Numerical Methods for Differential Equations (Michaelmas term) (2012-2013)