Thomas P. Witelski

OCIAM: Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Maths

email: witelski maths.ox.ac.uk

Office: Dartington House DH 20, Little Clarendon Street
tel: +44 1865 270 517 (OCIAM)
fax: +44 1865 270 515

St. Catherine's College, Alan Bullock Building, Room ABB 7

St. Catherine's College, Tutorial Fellow
OCIAM, Reader in Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Institute, University Lecturer

• Research
  • Fluid dynamics of thin films and free surface flows
  • Applied nonlinear differential equations: nonlinear diffusion
  • Mathematical models derived from Industrial problems
• Teaching
  • MT 2007, B5a: Techniques of Applied Mathematics, Tom's 2007 B5a page
    • Lectures: TuTh 10-11 am, Lecture Hall 2, Maths. Inst.
    • Classes: Weeks MT468HT1, Fridays 2-3:30 pm, DHSR 2, Dartington House
  • HT 2008, Fluid Dynamics and Waves, Tom's 2008 A10 page
    • Lectures: TuTh 10-11 am, Lecture Hall 2, Maths. Inst.
    • Classes: Weeks MT468HT1, Fridays 2-3:30 pm, DHSR 2, Dartington House
  • St. Catz, Tutorials
    • MT 2007: Differential equations
    • HT 2008: Fluid Dynamics and Waves, Fourier Series and Two Variable Calculus
• Activities
  • Euromech 490 Workshop: Dynamics and Stability of thin liquid films and slender jets (organising committee)
• Selected recent publications
  • M.B. Gratton and T.P. Witelski, Coarsening of dewetting thin films subject to gravity, Physical Review E, vol. 77 no. 016301 (2008), pp. 1--11.
  • David G. Schaeffer, Michael Shearer and T.P. Witelski, Boundary-value problems for hyperbolic PDE related to steady granular flow, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, vol. 11 (August, 2006) (DOI: 10.1177/1081286506067325.)
  • R. Levy,M. Shearer and T.P. Witelski, Gravity-driven thin liquid films with insoluble surfactant: smooth traveling waves, European Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 18 no. 6 (2006), pp. 679--708.
  • T.P. Witelski, R. Levy and M. Shearer, Growing surfactant waves in thin liquid films driven by gravity, Applied Mathematics Research Express, vol. 2006 no. 15487 (2006), pp. 1-21.
  • Mark Bowen and T. P. Witelski, The linear limit of the dipole problem for the thin film equation, SIAM journal on applied mathematics, vol. 66 no. 5 (2006), pp. 1727--1748.
  • T.P. Witelski and S.W. Rienstra, Introduction to Practical Asymptotics III, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 53 no. 3-4 (December, 2005), pp. 199-199.
  • A. Munch and B. Wagner and T.P. Witelski, Lubrication models with small to large slip lengths, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 53 no. 3-4 (December, 2005), pp. 259-283.
  • R. Fetzer, K. Jacobs, A.Munch, B. Wagner, T.P. Witelski, New slip regimes and the shape of dewetting thin liquid films, Physical Review Letters, vol. 95 no. 12 (September, 2005), pp. 127801.
  • K. B. Glasner and T.P. Witelski, Collision vs. collapse of droplets in coarsening of dewetting thin films, Physica D, vol. 209 no. 1-4 (September, 2005), pp. 80-104.
  • R. P. Haskett, T. P. Witelski, and J. Sur, Localized Marangoni forcing in driven thin films, Physica D, vol. 209 no. 1-4 (September, 2005), pp. 117-134.
  • L. B. Smolka and A. Belmonte and D. M. Henderson and T.P. Witelski, Exact solution for the extensional flow of a viscoelastic filament, European Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 15 no. 6 (2005), pp. 679-712.
  • T.P. Witelski, Motion of wetting fronts moving into partially pre-wet soil, Advances in Water Resources, vol. 28 no. 10 (2005), pp. 1133-1141.
  • Jeanman Sur and T. P. Witelski and R. P. Behringer, Steady-Profile Fingering Flows in Marangoni Driven Thin Films, Physical Review Letters, vol. 93 no. 24 (December 10, 2004), pp. 7803.
  • L. J. Borucki, T. P. Witelski, C. P. Please, P. Kramer, D. Schwendeman, A theory of pad conditioning for chemical-mechanical polishing, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 50 no. 1 (September, 2004), pp. 1-24.
  • T. P. Witelski and Andrew J. Bernoff and Andrea L. Bertozzi, Blowup and dissipation in a critical-case unstable thin film equation, European Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 15 no. 2 (April, 2004), pp. 223-256.