Prof. Sarah Waters
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Applied Mathematics Tutorial Fellow of St Anne's college
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted publications
The energetics of flow through a rapidly oscillating tube with slowly varying amplitude.
Whittaker, R Heil, M Waters, S Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci volume 369 issue 1947 2989-3006 (28 Jul 2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21690145 Predicting the onset of high-frequency self-excited oscillations in elastic-walled tubes
Whittaker, R Heil, M Jensen, O Waters, S Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences volume 466 issue 2124 3635-3657 (08 Dec 2010) A multiphase model for tissue construct growth in a perfusion bioreactor.
O'Dea, R Waters, S Byrne, H Math Med Biol volume 27 issue 2 95-127 (Jun 2010) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19805485 The energetics of flow through a rapidly oscillating tube. Part 1. General theory
Whittaker, R Waters, S Jensen, O Boyle, J Heil, M Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 648 83-121 (10 Apr 2010) The energetics of flow through a rapidly oscillating tube. Part 2. Application to an elliptical tube
Whittaker, R Heil, M Boyle, J Jensen, O Waters, S Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 648 123-153 (10 Apr 2010) Research interests
Physiological fluid mechanics; Tissue engineering; Biomechanics; Mathematical modelling in medicine and biology
Recent publications
Weakly deformable poroelastic particle in an unbounded Stokes flow
Finney, S Hennessy, M Muench, A Waters, S Physical Review Fluids volume 10 (23 Sep 2025) Viscoelastic time responses of polymeric cell substrates measured continuously from 0.1-5000 Hz in liquid by photothermal AFM nanorheology.
Adam, C Piacenti, A Zhang, Y Waters, S Contera, S Nanoscale (11 Sep 2025) JFM ‘Outstanding Reviewers’ 2024
Waters, S Caulfield, C Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 1018 (01 Sep 2025) Computational model of cardiac cycle driven brain pulsation: a novel tool for brain disease exploration
Collier, A Haste, P Hayman, E Rezayaraghi, F Lam, T Waters, S Kurt, M Jerusalem, A Computers in Biology and Medicine volume 197 issue A (28 Aug 2025) Optimal control of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in a heart-tumour model
van der Vegt, S Baker, R Waters, S Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 87 issue 9 (11 Aug 2025)