Prof. S. Jon Chapman

D Phil, MA, BA

Status

Academic Faculty

Professor of Mathematics and its Applications.

+44 1865 270507

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ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3347-6024

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

Recent books

Stochastic Modelling of Reaction–Diffusion Processes Erban, R Chapman, S (30 Nov 2019)

Recent publications

Physics-Based Battery Model Parametrisation from Impedance Data

Hallemans, N Courtier, N Please, C Planden, B Dhoot, R Timms, R Chapman, S Howey, D Duncan, S (05 May 2025)

Integral constraints in multiple scales problems with a slowly varying microstructure

Kent, A Waters, S Oliver, J Chapman, S European Journal of Applied Mathematics (25 Apr 2025)

Establishment of a microwell-array-based miniaturized thymic organoid model suitable for high-throughput applications.

Major, V Palmer, S Rouse, P Morys, J Henderson, T Hübscher, T Sweetman, J Bacon, A An, C Guiyun, Q Wang, Y Corsinotti, A Cholewa-Waclaw, J Chapman, S Lütolf, M Anderson, G Blackburn, C Cell reports volume 44 issue 5 115579 (15 Apr 2025)

Gas-induced bulging in pouch-cell batteries: a mechanical model

Giudici, A Chapman, S Please, C Journal of Power Sources volume 640 (18 Mar 2025)

Multiple scales homogenisation of a porous viscoelastic material with rigid inclusions: application to lithium-ion battery electrodes

Foster, J Galvis, A Protas, B Chapman, S Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 199 (28 Feb 2025)

Research interests

Industrial mathematics, mathematical modelling, matched asymptotic expansions, partial differential equations, superconductivity, vortices, dislocations in elastic crystals, complex ray theory, high-frequency acoustic and electromagnetic scattering, free-boundary problems, exponential asymptotics, shear-thinning fluids, subcritical transition to turbulence, mathematical finance, asymptotic approximation of eigenvalues, mechanochemical models in developmental biology, mathematical physiology, tumour growth, nonlinear models of biological tissue.

Highlighted publications

Diffusion of multiple species with excluded-volume effects

Bruna, M Chapman, S Journal of Chemical Physics volume 137 issue 20 (28 Nov 2012)

Do waveless ships exist? Results for single-cornered hulls

Trinh, P Chapman, S Vanden-Broeck, J JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS volume 685 413-439 (2011) https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=elements_prod_1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000296905700016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL

Multiscale modelling of fluid and drug transport in vascular tumours.

Shipley, R Chapman, S Bull Math Biol volume 72 issue 6 1464-1491 (Aug 2010) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20099043

Motion of spiral waves in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Aguareles, M Chapman, S Witelski, T Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena volume 239 issue 7 348-365 (01 Apr 2010)

Exponential asymptotics of localised patterns and snaking bifurcation diagrams

Chapman, S Kozyreff, G PHYSICA D-NONLINEAR PHENOMENA volume 238 issue 3 319-354 (2009) https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=elements_prod_1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000263401900008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Johnson Mathematical Prize, Oxford University, 1992.
Richard C. DiPrima Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Maths, 1994.
Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society, 1998.
Julian Cole Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Maths, 2002.
Naylor Prize, London Mathematical Society, 2015.