Prof. Alain Goriely | Mathematical Institute

Prof. Alain Goriely

Ph D

Director of External Relations and Public Engagement

Academic Faculty

Statutory Professor (Chair) of Mathematical Modelling
Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Applied Mathematics (OCIAM)
Director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM)
Fellow of SIAM and the IMA

Contact Form

Personal Website:

www.goriely.com

+44 1865 615169

Address

Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Recent Books:

New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: July 2009
Amar, MB; Goriely, A; Müller, MM; Cugliandolo, L;
ISBN-13: 9780191729522 (22 September 2011)

Preface
Amar, MB; Goriely, A; Cugliandolo, L; Müller, MM;
ISBN-13: 9780191729522 (22 September 2011)

Recent Publications:

Spirals, Spines, and Ridges: the Mathematical Story of Seashells
Goriely, A; Moulton, DEREK; Chirat, R;
Scientific American (1 April 2018)

MECHANICAL FEEDBACK IN SEASHELL GROWTH AND FORM
Erlich, A; Howell, R; Goriely, A; Chirat, R; Moulton, DE;
ANZIAM JOURNAL issue 4 volume 59 page 581-606 (April 2018) Full text available

Controllable rotational inversion in nanostructures with dual chirality.
Dai, L; Zhu, K-D; Shen, W; Huang, X; Zhang, L; Goriely, A;
Nanoscale issue 14 volume 10 page 6343-6348 (April 2018)

Stochastic isotropic hyperelastic materials: constitutive calibration and model selection.
Mihai, LA; Woolley, TE; Goriely, A;
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences issue 2211 volume 474 page 20170858- (14 March 2018)

Imaging Localized Energy States in Silicon-Doped InGaN Nanowires Using 4D Electron Microscopy
Bose, R; Adhikari, A; Burlakov, VM; Liu, G; Haque, MA; Priante, D; Hedhili, MN; Wehbe, N; Zhao, C; Yang, H; Ng, TK; Goriely, A; Bakr, OM; Wu, T; Ooi, BS; Mohammed, OF;
ACS ENERGY LETTERS issue 2 volume 3 page 476-481 (February 2018) Full text available

Edge effects in elastic bulging
Benoist, F; Box, F; Goriely, A;
International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (1 January 2018)

Bulging brains.
Weickenmeier, J; Saze, P; Butler, CAM; Young, PG; Goriely, A; Kuhl, E;
Journal Of Elasticity issue 1-2 volume 129 page 197-212 (December 2017)

Axonal Buckling Following Stretch Injury
Lang, GE; Waters, SL; Vella, D; Goriely, A;
JOURNAL OF ELASTICITY issue 1-2 volume 129 page 239-256 (December 2017) Full text available

How to characterize a nonlinear elastic material? A review on nonlinear constitutive parameters in isotropic finite elasticity.
Mihai, LA; Goriely, A;
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences issue 2207 volume 473 page 20170607- (29 November 2017)

A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue
Mihai, LA; Budday, S; Holzapfel, GA; Kuhl, E; Goriely, A;
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS volume 106 page 60-79 (September 2017) Full text available

Thermodynamic limit for particle monodispersity: How narrow can a particle size distribution be?
Burlakov, V; Goriely, A;
EPL issue 5 volume 119 (September 2017) Full text available

A tale of two nested elastic rings
Napoli, G; Goriely, A;
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES issue 2204 volume 473 (1 August 2017) Full text available

The Role of Surface Tension in the Crystallization of Metal Halide Perovskites
Zhumekenov, AA; Burlakov, VM; Saidaminov, MI; Alofi, A; Hague, MA; Turedi, B; Davaasuren, B; Dursun, I; Cho, N; El-Zohry, AM; De Bastiani, M; Giugni, A; Torre, B; Di Fabrizio, E; Mohammed, OF; Rothenberger, A; Wu, T; Goriely, A; Bakr, OM;
ACS ENERGY LETTERS issue 8 volume 2 page 1782-1788 (August 2017) Full text available

Random blebbing motion: A simple model linking cell structural properties to migration characteristics.
Woolley, TE; Gaffney, EA; Goriely, A;
Physical review. E issue 1-1 volume 96 page 012409- (18 July 2017)

Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth.
Weickenmeier, J; Fischer, C; Carter, D; Kuhl, E; Goriely, A;
Physical review letters issue 24 volume 118 page 248101- (16 June 2017)

Geometric conditions for the positive definiteness of the second variation in one-dimensional problems
Lessinnes, T; Goriely, A;
Nonlinearity issue 5 volume 30 page 2023-2062 (6 April 2017)

Microstructure-based hyperelastic models for closed-cell solids.
Mihai, LA; Wyatt, H; Goriely, A;
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences issue 2200 volume 473 page 20170036- (5 April 2017)

Self-assembly of a filament by curvature-inducing proteins
Kwiecinski, J; Chapman, SJ; Goriely, A;
PHYSICA D-NONLINEAR PHENOMENA volume 344 page 68-80 (1 April 2017) Full text available

Double Charged Surface Layers in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals.
Sarmah, SP; Burlakov, VM; Yengel, E; Murali, B; Alarousu, E; El-Zohry, AM; Yang, C; Alias, MS; Zhumekenov, AA; Saidaminov, MI; Cho, N; Wehbe, N; Mitra, S; Ajia, I; Dey, S; Mansour, AE; Abdelsamie, M; Amassian, A; Roqan, IS; Ooi, BS; Goriely, A; Bakr, OM; Mohammed, OF;
Nano letters issue 3 volume 17 page 2021-2027 (March 2017)

Research Interests:

Methods of Applied Mathematics (differential equations, dynamical systems,...)
Discrete and continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity.
Application of mechanics and mathematics to biology.
Mathematical modelling in physics and engineering.
Interesting and otherwise unclassifiable mathematical problems.

Preferred Address:

Mathematical Institute