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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 Journal of The Electrochemical Society (05 May 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)
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 (14 Dec 2024)
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.
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