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Ben Sloman

DPhil, MMath
Status
Visiting Professor, Research Fellow, Lecturer

Research Scientist, Elkem ASA

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+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)
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