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Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Research Interests:
- Heat and mass transfer modelling
- Multiphase flow
- Asymptotic analysis
- Perturbation theory and boundary layer theory
- Delay differential equations and stability
- PDEs with applications to mathematical biology
Teaching:
MT 2017 intercollegiate classes include:
- 2 x Computational Mathematics (Senior Demonstrator)
TT 2017 classes include:
- ASO Mathematical Modelling in Biology (College Tutor, Mansfield)
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M4 Constructive Mathematics (College Tutor, St. Catherine's)
HT 2017 classes include:
- 3 x M5 Fourier Series and PDE's (College Tutor, Mansfield)
MT 2016 intercollegiate classes include:
- 2 x C5.5 Perturbation Methods (Class Tutor)
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2 x Computational Mathematics (Demonstrator)
HT 2016 intercollegiate classes include:
- B5.6 Nonlinear Systems (Class Tutor)
- 2 x B5.6 Nonlinear Systems (TA)
MT 2015 intercollegiate classes include:
- 2 x C5.5 Perturbation Methods (TA)
HT 2015 intercollegiate classes include:
- C5.12 Mathematical Physiology (TA)
Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships:
- Clarendon Scholarship (2014-2018)
- T.M. Cherry Prize for best student talk (ANZIAM Conference, 2018)
- G-Research DPhil Prize in Quantitative Finance (2018)
- Departmental Teaching Award (2016)
Major / Recent Publications:
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N. T. Fadai, J. Melrose, C. P. Please, A. Schulman, R. A. Van Gorder, A Heat and Mass Transfer Study of Coffee Bean Roasting. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 104 (2017), pp. 787-799.
- N. T. Fadai, M. J. Ward, J. Wei, Delayed Reaction-Kinetics and the Stability of Spikes in the Gierer-Meinhardt Model. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 77 (2017), pp. 664-696.
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N. T. Fadai, C. P. Please, R. A. Van Gorder, Asymptotic Analysis of a Multiphase Drying Model Motivated by Coffee Bean Roasting. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 78 (2018), pp. 418-436.
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N. T. Fadai, M. J. Ward, J. Wei. A Time-Delay in the Activator Kinetics Enhances the Stability of a Spike Solution to the Gierer-Meinhardt Model. Accepted to Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Series B) 22/11/2016.
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N. T. Fadai, Z. Akram, J. Melrose, F. Guilmineau, C. P. Please, R. A. Van Gorder, The Influence of Distributed Chemical Reaction Groups in a Multiphase Coffee Bean Roasting Model. Revisions submitted to IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics 14/3/2017.
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N. T. Fadai, Coffee Roasting, Mathematical Modelling, and Asymptotic Analysis. SIAM News Blog 29/9/17.