Dr Ben Wilks

Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences

School of Mathematical Sciences

College of Science


Ben (he/him) is an enthusiastic teacher and researcher in applied mathematics. His research specialisation is the use of analytical and numerical techniques to study linear wave scattering problems, with the primary application being the study of ocean wave energy conversion---an emerging source of renewable energy. His research involves the modelling of physical systems using linear partial differential equations and their solution using numerical methods.

Year Citation
2025 Wilks, B., Meylan, M. H., Montiel, F., & Wakes, S. (2025). Generalised eigenfunction expansion and singularity expansion methods for canonical time-domain wave scattering problems. Wave Motion, 132, 18 pages.
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2025 Meylan, M. H., Challis, V. J., Thamwattana, N., Wegert, Z. J., & Wilks, B. (2025). Wave power absorption by floating plates with application to piezoelectric or other bending-based absorption. Ocean Engineering, 328, 11 pages.
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2025 Wilks, B., & Meylan, M. H. (2025). A Numerical Comparison of Eigenfunction Matching and Singularity-Respecting Galerkin Approximation Methods for Linear Water Wave Scattering. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 13(3), 19 pages.
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2025 Wilks, B., Montiel, F., Bennetts, L. G., & Wakes, S. (2025). Water wave interactions with surface-piercing vertical barriers in a rectangular tank: Connections with Bloch waves and quasimodes. Wave Motion, 132, 103444-1-103444-18.
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2024 Wilks, B., Meylan, M. H., Montiel, F., & Wakes, S. (2024). Generalized eigenfunction expansion and singularity expansion methods for two-dimensional acoustic time-domain wave scattering problems. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2297), 30 pages.
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2024 Alshahrani, F., Meylan, M. H., & Wilks, B. (2024). Transient Shallow Water Wave Interactions with a Partially Fragmented Ice Shelf. Fluids, 9(8), 18 pages.
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2023 Wilks, B., Montiel, F., & Wakes, S. (2023). A mechanistic evaluation of the local Bloch wave approximation in graded arrays of vertical barriers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 967, 23 pages.
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2022 Wilks, B., Montiel, F., & Wakes, S. (2022). Rainbow reflection and broadband energy absorption of water waves by graded arrays of vertical barriers. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 941, 25 pages.
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Year Citation
2025 Balasooriya, D. S., Blair, A., Wilks, B., Wheeler, C., Jauhar, T., & Chalup, S. (2025). Parallel TD3 for Policy Gradient-Based Multi-condition Multi-objective Optimisation. In H. Singh, T. Ray, J. Knowles, X. Li, J. Branke, B. Wang, & A. Oyama (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 15513 LNCS, pp. 208-222). SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
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