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John Ockendon
John Richard Ockendon FRS (born 1940)[3] is an applied mathematician noted especially for his contribution to fluid dynamics and novel applications of mathematics to real world problems.[2] He is a professor at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, served as the first director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) and a former director of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering.[citation needed] EducationOckendon was privately educated at Dulwich College[3] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965[4] for research on fluid dynamics supervised by Alan B. Tayler.[1][5] Research and careerHis initial fluid mechanics interests included hypersonic aerodynamics, creeping flow, sloshing and channel flows and leading to flows in porous media, ship hydrodynamics and models for flow separation.[citation needed] He moved on[when?] to free and moving boundary problems. He pioneered the study of diffusion-controlled moving boundary problems in the 1970s his involvement centring on models for phase changes and elastic contact problems all built around the paradigm of the Hele-Shaw free boundary problem. Other industrial collaboration has led to new ideas for lens design, fibre manufacture, extensional and surface-tension- driven flows and glass manufacture, fluidised-bed models, semiconductor device modelling and a range of other problems in mechanics and heat and mass transfer, especially scattering and ray theory, nonlinear wave propagation, nonlinear oscillations, nonlinear diffusion and impact in solids and liquids.[citation needed] His efforts to promote mathematical collaboration with industry led him to organise annual meetings of the Study Groups with Industry from 1972 to 1989.[citation needed] Awards and honoursOckendon was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1999, and awarded the IMA Gold Medal by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in 2006.[6] Personal lifeOckendon is married to his coauthor and colleague Hilary Ockendon (née Mason).[3][7] His Who's Who entry lists his recreations as mathematical modelling, bird watching, Hornby-Dublo model trains and old sports cars.[3] References
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