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Prof. Paul J. Dellar

PhD (Cantab)
Status
Academic Faculty

University Lecturer, Fellow of Corpus Christi College

Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/dellar
+44 1865 276775
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7231-3661
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

Highlighted publications
Cross-equatorial flow through an abyssal channel under the complete Coriolis force: Two-dimensional solutions
Stewart, A Dellar, P Ocean Modelling volume 40 issue 1 87-104 (05 Aug 2011)
Variations on a beta-plane: Derivation of non-traditional beta-plane equations from Hamilton's principle on a sphere
Dellar, P Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 674 174-195 (10 May 2011)
Planar channel flow in Braginskii magnetohydrodynamics
Dellar, P JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS volume 667 520-543 (25 Jan 2011) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000287052900020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Electromagnetic waves in lattice Boltzmann magnetohydrodynamics
Dellar, P EPL volume 90 issue 5 (Jun 2010) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000280061500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Multilayer shallow water equations with complete Coriolis force. Part 1. Derivation on a non-traditional beta-plane
Stewart, A Dellar, P JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS volume 651 387-413 (25 May 2010) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000278212600016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Research interests

Lattice Boltzmann methods and kinetic theory

Magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics

Geophysical fluid dynamics

Variational and Hamiltonian methods in hydrodynamics

Scientific computation

Industrial applied mathematics through the "study group" format

Recent publications
Vector lattice Boltzmann equations: from magnetohydrodynamics to active matter
Dellar, P Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2021 407-416 (11 Jul 2022)
Relativistic properties and invariants of the Du Fort–Frankel scheme for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation
Dellar, P Journal of Computational Physics: X volume 2 100004-100004 (Mar 2019)
Super- and sub-rotating equatorial jets in shallow water models of Jovian atmospheres: Newtonian cooling versus Rayleigh friction
Warneford, E Dellar, P Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 822 484-511 (07 Jun 2017)
Phase mixing versus nonlinear advection in drift-kinetic plasma turbulence
Schekochihin, A Parker, J Highcock, E Dellar, P Dorland, W Hammett, G JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS volume 82 (Apr 2016) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000376015000020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Suppression of phase mixing in drift-kinetic plasma turbulence
Parker, J Highcock, E Schekochihin, A Dellar, P Physics of Plasmas volume 23 issue 7 (01 Jan 2016)
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