Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM)

Mathematical Institute

Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

Oxford

OX2 6GG

UK

Paul J. Dellar

University Lecturer

Fellow of Corpus Christi College
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+44 1865 276775

+44 1865 615164

dellar@maths.ox.ac.uk

Teaching Information

My Kinetic Theory class will be 3–5pm on Monday 10th November 2025 in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre.

The hand-in deadline is Thursday 6th November 2025 to Lucas McConnell via Canvas.

My web page for my lectures is here.

Research Interests

Lattice Boltzmann methods and kinetic theory

Magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics

Geophysical fluid dynamics

Variational and Hamiltonian methods in hydrodynamics

Scientific computation and applications of GPUs

Industrial applied mathematics through the "study group" format

Recent and Forthcoming Seminars

15 November 2013, seminar at MACSI, University of Limerick, A lattice Boltzmann formulation for viscoelastic fluids and implementation on GPUs

30 October 2013, Oxford Many-Core seminar, Experiences with porting spectral and lattice Boltzmann fluids codes using CUDA Fortran

Recent and Forthcoming Meetings

4 November 2013, Centre for Innovation: Accelerating research for Industry Event at UCL about the Emerald GPU cluster

6 to 9 August 2013, International Workshop on Applied Mathematics in Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Problems, Tianjin University

22 to 26 July 2013, 10th International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES 2013) at St Anne's College,  Oxford

15 to 19 July 2013, 22nd Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics (DSFD) Conference, Yerevan, Armenia

Recent papers (with a full list here)

P. J. Dellar (2025) A projection method to symmetrize the momentum flux in a vector lattice Boltzmann formulation of hydrodynamics  Phys. Fluids 37 063606

P. J. Dellar (2025) A quantum lattice algorithm with fourth-order accuracy for the one-dimensional Dirac equation  J. Comput. Phys. 533 113991
 
P. J. Dellar (2025) Lattice Boltzmann formulation for eight-wave magnetohydrodynamics  AIAA J. 63 583–597 (reprint)

P. J. Dellar (2024) A magic two-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann algorithm for magnetohydrodynamics  Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S 17 3155–3173 (reprint)

P. J. Dellar (2023) Hyperbolic divergence cleaning in lattice Boltzmann magnetohydrodynamics  Commun. Comput. Phys. 33 245–272 (reprint)

P. J. Dellar (2022) Vector lattice Boltzmann equations: From magnetohydrodynamics to active matter, in Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2021, pages 407–416, Springer (preprint)