Prof. Chris Breward

MA, MSc, DPhil

InFoMM CDT Co-Director

Status

Academic Faculty

Co-Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling

+44 1865 270505

Contact form

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~breward/

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4568-5261

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

On the predictions and limitations of the Becker-Döring model for reaction kinetics in micellar surfactant solutions.

Griffiths, I Bain, C Breward, C Colegate, D Howell, P Waters, S J Colloid Interface Sci volume 360 issue 2 662-671 (15 Aug 2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21571292

The effect of polar lipids on tear film dynamics.

Aydemir, E Breward, C Witelski, T Bull Math Biol volume 73 issue 6 1171-1201 (Jun 2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20556530

An asymptotic theory for the reequilibration of a micellar surfactant solution

Breward, C Griffiths, I Bain, C Chapman, S Howell, P Waters, S SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics volume 72 201-215 (2011)

A theoretical analysis of the surface tension profiles of strongly interacting polymer-surfactant systems.

Bell, C Breward, C Howell, P Penfold, J Thomas, R J Colloid Interface Sci volume 350 issue 2 486-493 (15 Oct 2010) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20688336

Long-wavelength stability of an unsupported multilayer liquid film falling under gravity

Dyson, R Brander, J Breward, C Howell, P Journal of Engineering Mathematics volume 64 issue 3 237-250 (09 Mar 2009)

Teaching

I teach at Christ Church

Recent publications

Surface-tension-driven buckling of a thin viscous sheet

Ryan, N Breward, C Griffiths, I Howell, P Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 1006 (10 Mar 2025)

The role of temperature and drying cycles on impurity deposition in drying porous media

Luckins, E Breward, C Griffiths, I Please, C European Physical Society Letters volume 146 issue 3 (15 May 2024)

Mathematical modelling of impurity deposition during evaporation of dirty liquid in a porous material

Luckins, E Breward, C Griffiths, I Please, C Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 986 (10 May 2024)

The effect of pore-scale contaminant distribution on the reactive decontamination of porous media

Luckins, E Breward, C Griffiths, I Please, C European Journal of Applied Mathematics volume 35 issue 2 318-358 (08 Aug 2023)

Modelling the reduction of quartz in a quartz–carbon pellet

Metherall, B Breward, C Please, C Oliver, J Sloman, B Journal of Engineering Mathematics volume 141 issue 1 (30 Jun 2023)

Research interests

Fluid mechanics; Surfactants; Mathematical modelling for industry and the biosciences. I am working on modelling tear films at the moment, and polymer-surfactant mixtures