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Peter Chamberlain

Email:
p.g.chamberlain@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 5005
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Work Placements Tutor
Tutorial and Marking Coordinator
WIDE Coordinator

Office

Room 302

Building location

Mathematics

Areas of interest

Linear water wave theory, particularly the scattering and trapping of waves by topography
Integral equations
Reaction-diffusion theory

Teaching

Current teaching (2023/24):

Research centres and groups

Pure and Applicable Analysis

Websites/blogs

Publications

Moran, C. , Biggs, N. , Chamberlain, P. (2016) Embedding formulae for wave diffraction by a circular arc. Wave Motion , 67 pp. 32-46. ISSN: 0165-2125 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2016.07.003

Preston, M. , Chamberlain, P. , Chandler-Wilde, S. (2011) A Nyström method for a boundary value problem arising in unsteady water wave problems. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis , 31 (3). pp. 1123-1153. ISSN: 1464-3642 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imanum/drq009

Needham, D. , Chamberlain, P. , Billingham, J. (2008) The Initial Development of a Jet Caused by Fluid, Body and Free Surface Interaction. Part 3. an Inclined Accelerating Plate. The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics , 61 (4). pp. 581-614. ISSN: 0033-5614 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbn019
Preston, M. , Chamberlain, P. , Chandler-Wilde, S. (2008) An integral equation method for a boundary value problem arising in unsteady water wave problems. Journal of Integral Equations and Applications , 20 (1). pp. 121-152. ISSN: 0897-3962 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1216/JIE-2008-20-1-121

Chamberlain, P. (2007) Water wave scattering by finite arrays of circular structures. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics , 72 (1). pp. 52-66. ISSN: 0272-4960 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxl025

Chamberlain, P. and Porter, D. (2006) Multi-mode approximations to wave scattering by an uneven bed. Journal Of Fluid Mechanics , 556 pp. 421-441. ISSN: 0022-1120

Chamberlain, P. and Porter, D. (2005) Wave scattering in a two-layer fluid of varying depth. Journal Of Fluid Mechanics , 524 pp. 207-228.

Chamberlain, P. (2004) The effect of evanescent wave modes on scattering and near- trapping. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics , 69 (2). pp. 205-218.