Ben Sloman

DPhil, MMath

Status

Visiting Professor, Research Fellow, Lecturer

Research Scientist, Elkem ASA

Contact form

+44 1865 615202

Research groups

Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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

Research interests

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:

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduate-study/industrially-focused-mathematical-modelling-epsrc-cdt/infomm-resear-14

Major / recent publications

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

Teaching

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)