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• PG Cert in Learning and Teaching, 2003
• DPhil in Mathematical Modelling, 1992
• MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 1990
• BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, 1989

Warren Smith obtained a first class BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Warwick University in 1989. He then moved to Exeter College, Oxford to attend the taught MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis and study for a DPhil modelling the latest design of Rolls-Royce gas journal bearing. His doctorate was followed by a short period in scientific consultancy, an EPSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the University of Nottingham and an EU-funded ECMI Research Fellowship in TU Eindhoven. In 2001, he accepted a Lectureship at the University 麻豆精选 in which he remains apart from a three-month fellowship at Cornell University.

Warren acts as a reviewer for more than ten leading scientific journals, the research councils and AMS Mathematical Reviews. He has edited a special issue of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics on Practical Asymptotics, been invited to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics on Industrial Applied Mathematics, delivered invited lectures at international conferences and organised a study group for mathematics in industry in the Netherlands.

Semester 1

LH/LM Continuum Mechanics

Semester 2

LH/LM Methods in Partial Differential Equations

LH/LM Continuum Mechanics

• Mathematical modelling of the distensible tube wave energy converter 
• Strongly non-linear analysis applied to the Navier-Stokes equations

Research themes

• Perturbation theory
• Strongly non-linear analysis
• Acoustic cavitation

Research activity

Warren has pioneered the application of strongly non-linear analysis to the Navier-Stokes equations. This analysis has succeeded in demonstrating that viscous effects always represent a singular perturbation for rotational flows even in the absence of interior/boundary layers.

Throughout his academic career, Warren has sought after multi-scale industrial topics. These allow the application of regular perturbation theory (for example, in laser percussion drilling) or singular perturbation theory (for example, in acoustic cavitation). The European Study Groups with Industry (ESGI), links with ECMI and interdisciplinary collaboration have provided sources for these projects. During his career, he has collaborated with mechanical engineers (Brunel, Oxford), electrical engineers (Nottingham), chemical engineers (Cornell, Eindhoven), physicists (Eindhoven) and biomedical engineers (Birmingham).