Hilary Ockendon
Hilary Ockendon is a British applied mathematician and an expert on problems in fluid dynamics, such as the reduction of sloshing in coffee cups.[1] She is an emeritus fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, the former president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, and the author of multiple books on fluid dynamics.
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Education and career
Ockendon was educated at Somerville College, Oxford and earned her PhD in 1968. Her dissertation, Relaxing Gas Flow, was supervised by David Allan Spence.[2]
She is the former director[3] and an emerita member of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and a fellow emerita of Somerville College, Oxford.[4] She was president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry from 2001 to 2003.[5]
Personal life
Ockendon is married to coauthor and colleague John Ockendon.[6]
Books
Ockendon is the author of:
- Inviscid Fluid Flows (with Alan B. Taylor, Oxford University, 1972; Springer, 1983)[7]
- Viscous Flow (with John Ockendon, Cambridge University Press, 1995)[8]
- Waves and Compressible Flow (with John Ockendon, Springer, 2004; 2nd ed., 2015)[9]
References
- Sorg, Lina (21 December 2017), "Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee", Research nuggets, SIAM News
- Hilary Ockendon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "OCIAM" (PDF), Oxford Mathematical Institute Newsletter, 1: 6, March 2003
- Hilary Ockendon, University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, retrieved 25 May 2019
- Past presidents, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, 2016-01-22, retrieved 25 May 2019
- Rundle, John B.; Turcotte, Donald (1996), "Turcotte receives Whitten medal", Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 77 (10): 95, doi:10.1029/96eo00063
- Reviews of Inviscid Fluid Flows:
- Srivastava, K. M., zbMATH, Zbl 0512.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Heinrich, G., zbMATH (in German), Zbl 0386.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Jeffrey, Alan, Mathematical Reviews, MR 0421281CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Hyers, D. H. (1984), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0693294CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Hilbig, H. (1984), ZAMM, 64 (11): 502, doi:10.1002/zamm.19840641115CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Reviews of Viscous Flow:
- Heinrichs, W., zbMATH, Zbl 0837.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Harper, John F. (1995), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1017/CBO9781139174206, ISBN 9781139174206, MR 1315052CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Gersten, K. (1997), ZAMM, 77 (4): 280, Bibcode:1997ZaMM...77..280G, doi:10.1002/zamm.19970770414CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Reviews of Waves and Compressible Flow:
- Jeffrey, Alan, zbMATH, Zbl 1041.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Malomed, Boris A., zbMATH, Zbl 1339.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Serre, Denis (2004), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2027679CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Ockendon, Hilary; Ockendon, John R. (2004), Applied Mechanics Reviews, 57 (6): B33, Bibcode:2004ApMRv..57B..33O, doi:10.1115/1.1849177CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Frank, K. (July 2004), AIAA Journal, 42 (7): 1502, Bibcode:2004AIAAJ..42.1502K, doi:10.2514/1.14206CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Chapman, C. J. (December 2004), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 521: 380, Bibcode:2004JFM...521..380C, doi:10.1017/s0022112004001168CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Groves, M. (January 2005), ZAMM, 85 (1): 74, Bibcode:2005ZaMM...85...74G, doi:10.1002/zamm.200590004CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)