
Ben Sloman
Research Scientist, Elkem ASA
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
- Chemical reaction models
- Multiphase flow
- Porous media
- Heat transfer
- Linear elasticity
- Asymptotic analysis
My doctoral research concerned mathematical modelling of silicon furnaces. The DPhil thesis can be found at:
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3d43921c-078a-4390-a943-c761e750a9ea
A short summary of the project can be found at:
B. M. Sloman, C. P. Please, and R. A. Van Gorder. Melting and dripping of a heated material with temperature-dependent viscosity in a thin vertical tube. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 905 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.727
B. M. Sloman, C. P. Please, and R. A. Van Gorder. Homogenization of a shrinking core model for gas-solid reactions in granular particles. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 79 (2019) 177-206. https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/17M1159634
B. M. Sloman, C. P. Please, and R. A. Van Gorder. Asymptotic analysis of a silicon furnace model. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 78 (2018) 1174-1205. https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/17M1122335
B. M. Sloman, C. P. Please, R. A. Van Gorder, A. M. Valderhaug, R. G. Birkeland, and H. Wegge. A heat and mass transfer model of a silicon pilot furnace. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 48 (2017) 2664-2676. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11663-017-1052-3
Tutor for undergraduate courses
- C5.1 Solid Mechanics (MT 2016 and 2017)
- A10 Fluids and Waves (HT 2017)
- ASO Integral Transfoms (HT 2017 and 2018)
- ASO Calculus of Variations (TT 2017)
- A11 Quantum Theory (MT 2017)
- A6 Differential Equations 2 (HT 2018)
- M5 Fourier Series and PDEs (HT 2018)
InFoMM CDT (DPhil) course instructor
- Modelling, Analysis and Computation of Continuous Real-World Problems (MT 2016)
Teaching Assistant for undergraduate courses
- B5.2 Applied Partial Differential Equations (HT 2015)
- B5.3 Viscous Flow (MT 2015)
- B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow (HT 2016)
Tutor for consultation revision sessions
- B5.3 Viscous Flow (TT 2016)