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Prof. Patrick Farrell

PhD, BSc (Hons)
Status
Academic Faculty

Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow

Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College

+44 1865 270743
Contact form
http://www.pefarrell.org
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-7060
Research groups
  • Numerical Analysis
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications

See http://www.pefarrell.org.

Research interests
  • The numerical solution of differential equations.
  • Adaptive discretisations of PDEs.
  • Adjoints and PDE-constrained optimisation problems.
  • Bifurcation analysis of nonlinear PDEs.
Prizes, awards, and scholarships
  • Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, 2015
  • IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis, second place, 2015
  • EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship, 2013
  • Outstanding Thesis award from the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2010
  • Represented the UK in the PhD Olympiad of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, 2010
  • Core member of team winning the Imperial College Research Excellence Award, 2010
  • Janet Watson Memorial Prize as the best PhD student in the department in 2009
  • Janet Watson Doctoral Scholarship, 2006
  • Hamilton Prize, Royal Irish Academy, 2006
  • Blayney Exhibition, National University of Ireland, 2006
Recent publications
Colloidal smectics in button-like confinements: experiment and theory
Wittmann, R Monderkamp, P Xia, J Cortes, L Grobas, I Farrell, P Aarts, D Löwen, H Physical Review Research volume 5 (28 Aug 2023)
Optimization of Hopf bifurcation points
Boullé, N Farrell, P Rognes, M SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing volume 45 issue 3 B390-B411 (23 Jun 2023)
Monolithic multigrid for implicit Runge-Kutta discretizations of incompressible fluid flow
Abu-Labdeh, R MacLachlan, S Farrell, P Journal of Computational Physics volume 478 (26 Jan 2023)
On the finite element approximation of a semicoercive stokes variational inequality arising in glaciology
de Diego, G Farrell, P Hewitt, I SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis volume 61 issue 1 1-25 (25 Jan 2023)
Two-component three-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensates supporting complex stable patterns
Boullé, N Newell, I Farrell, P Kevrekidis, P Physical Review A volume 107 issue 1 (18 Jan 2023)
Teaching

Lecturing:

  • Practical Numerical Analysis, MT 2014
  • Python in Scientific Computing, TT 2014-2017
  • Solving PDEs on Supercomputers, TT 2015-2016
  • Finite Element Methods for PDEs, HT 2017

Tutoring:

  • Numerical Analysis, HT 2014
  • Constructive Mathematics, TT 2014
  • Optimisation, TT 2014
  • Introduction to University Level Mathematics, MT 2016
  • Geometry, MT 2016
  • Differential Equations I, MT 2016
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