Ronald Smith's Homepage

 Department of Mathematical Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU, UK
Tel: +44(0)1509 223191.
Fax:+44(0)1509 223969
email: Ron.Smith@lboro.ac.uk

Research

Optimal schemes for computing concentrations and minimum environmental impact discharging in rivers, estuaries and coastal waters.

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Recent Publication

Three-point scheme and two-point boundary formulations for unsteady diffusion with flow. IMA J. Appl. Math. 71, 795-810 (2006).

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Brief CV

Bristol, Mathematics: Undergraduate B.Sc (1) 1967, Postgraduate Ph.D. 1970.
Essex, Fluid Mechanics Research Institute: Postdoc 1970-74.
Cambridge DAMTP: CEGB Fellow 74-79, Roy. Soc. Sen. Res. Fellow 1979-90, Sc.D. 1990.
Loughborough: Professor of Applied mathematics 1990-2006 (ill-health retirement).
The 1996 B. H. Ketchum Award of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Erdös Number=3

Distance  from Paul Erdös(1913-1996) on a graph whose edges denote the relationship of coauthorship.
1. Paul Erdös, George Szekeres (1935) A combinatorial problem in geometry, Compositio Mathematica 2, 463--470. (Plus 4 other joint publications) .
2. Lawrence Mysak   and George Szekeres (1966) Behavior of the Schwarzschild singularity in superimposed gravitational fields. Canad. J. Phys. 44, 617--627.
3. Lawrence Mysak, D Howell Peregrine, David G Provis, Ronald Smith (1977) Waves on water of variable depth. J. Fluid Mech. 79, (1977) 449--462.