Dr Stephen Peppin

Dr Stephen Peppin

Dr Stephen Peppin

eMail: Stephen [dot] Peppin [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 615135

Office: RI.2.26a

Departmental Address:

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

Research Interests: 

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, colloid physics, solidification, pattern formation, geophysical and technological applications.

Major/Recent Publications: 

Style, R. W., Peppin, S. S. L., Cocks, A. C. F. and Wettlaufer, J. S., Ice lens formation and geometrical supercooling in soils and other colloidal materials, Physical Review E, in press, 2011.

Peppin, S. S. L., Majumdar, A., Style, R. W. and Sander, G., Frost heave in colloidal soils, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 71, pp1717--1732, 2011.

Elliott, J. A. W. and Peppin, S. S. L., Particle trapping and banding in rapid colloidal solidification, Physical Review Letters, 107, 168301, 2011.

Style, R. W. and Peppin, S. S. L.,  Mud peeling and horizontal crack formation in drying clays, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 116, F01025, 2011.

Spannuth M, Mochrie, S. G. J., Peppin S. S. L and Wettlaufer, J. S., Particle-scale structure in frozen colloidal suspensions from small-angle x-ray scattering, Physical Review E, 83, 021402, 2011.

Style R. W. and Peppin S. S. L., Crust formation in drying colloidal suspensions, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 467, pp174--193, 2011.

Peppin, S. S. L, Majumdar, A. and Wettlaufer, J. S., Morphological instability of a nonequilibrium ice-colloid interface, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 466, pp177--194, 2010.  

Peppin, S. S. L., On diffusion and permeation, Journal  of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 34, pp355--369, 2009.

Peppin, S. S. L., Spannuth, M. and Wettlaufer, J. S., Onsager  reciprocity in premelting solids, Journal  of Statistical Physics, 134,  701--708, 2009.

Peppin, S. S. L., Wettlaufer, J. S. and Worster, M. G., Experimental  verification of morphological instability in freezing aqueous colloidal suspensions, Physical Review Letters, 100, 238301, 2008.

Peppin, S. S. L., Huppert, H. E. and Worster, M. G., Steady-state  solidification of aqueous ammonium chloride, Journal of Fluid  Mechanics, 599, pp  465--476, 2008.

Peppin, S. S. L., Worster, M. G. and Wettlaufer, J. S., Morphological  instability in freezing colloidal suspensions, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 463, pp723--733, 2007.

Peppin, S. S. L., Aussillous, P., Huppert, H. E., Worster, M. G.,  Steady-state mushy layers: Experiments and theory, Journal  of Fluid Mechanics, 570,  pp69--77, 2007.

Peppin, S. S. L., Elliott, J. A. W. and Worster, M. G., Solidification  of colloidal suspensions, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 554, pp147--166, 2006.

Peppin, S. S. L., Elliott, J. A. W. and Worster, M. G., Pressure and  relative motion in colloidal suspensions, Physics of  Fluids A, 15, 053301, 2005.

Peppin, S. S. L. and Elliott, J. A. W., Non-equilibrium thermodynamics  of ultrafiltration, Advances in Colloid and Interface  Science, 92, pp 1--72, 2001.