Hilary Ockendon

Hilary Ockendon
Born
Hilary Mason

1941 (age 8384)
Derby, UK
EducationDerby High School for Girls
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse
(m. 1967)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Fluid Mechanics
Asymptotic Methods
Industrial applications
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
GCHQ
ThesisStudies in Relaxing Gas Flow (1968)
Doctoral advisorDavid Spence
Websitewww.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/hilary.ockendon

Hilary Ockendon (née Mason, born 1941) is a British mathematician who worked at the University of Oxford until retirement in 2008. Her research focuses on applications of mathematics with a particular interest in continuum models for industrial problems. She is an emeritus fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, the former president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, and the author of multiple books on fluid dynamics. She is an expert on problems in fluid dynamics, such as the reduction of sloshing in coffee cups.