Dr Ben Wilks
Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences
School of Mathematical Sciences
College of Science
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD as Co-Supervisor only - email supervisor to discuss availability.
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 |
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| 2026 | Alshahrani, F., Meylan, M., & Wilks, B. (2026). Time-domain analysis of an ice shelf in a bounded domain. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1026, A44-1-A44-20. |
| 2026 | Jauhar, T., Balasooriya, D., Wilks, B., Chalup, S., Carr, M., Wheeler, C., & Ellis, D. (2026). Investigating the influence of design and operational parameters on SAG mill energy spectra: A DEM and SHAP-based sensitivity analysis. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 227, 583-600. |
| 2026 | Wegert, Z. J., Wilks, B., Thamwattana, N., Challis, V. J., Koley, S., & Meylan, M. H. (2026). Wave energy conversion by floating and submerged piezoelectric bimorph plates. Ocean Engineering, 354(Part 1), 124792. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2026 | Wilks, B., Meylan, M. H., Wegert, Z. J., Challis, V. J., & Thamwattana, N. (2026). Water wave scattering by a surface-mounted rectangular anisotropic elastic plate. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1030, A5-1-A5-31. |
| 2026 | Pethiyagoda, R., Das, S., Wilks, B., & Meylan, M. H. (2026). A generalised inner product-based wave scattering from an underwater source in a compressible ocean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1032, A28-1-A28-25. |
| 2026 | Aldosri, A. A., Meylan, M. H., & Wilks, B. (2026). Numerical simulation of time-domain harbour response from an incident pulse. Applied Ocean Research, 171, 105088. |
| 2026 | Murari, B., Wegert, Z. J., Wilks, B., Ghayesh, M. H., Thamwattana, N., Challis, V. J., & Meylan, M. H. (2026). Wave energy conversion using submerged piezoelectric plates with functionally graded graphene origami-enabled auxetic metamaterial substrates: A hydroelectromechanical study. Ocean Engineering, 363(P2), 11 pages. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 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. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 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. Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 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. Scopus11 WoS10 |
| 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), 398-1-398-19. Scopus7 WoS6 |
| 2025 | Aldosri, A. A., Meylan, M. H., & Wilks, B. (2025). Wave scattering at a rectangular junction of four waveguides. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 154, 116697. |
| 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. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 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. Scopus7 WoS8 |
| 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. Scopus8 WoS7 |
| 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. Scopus51 WoS47 |
| Year | Citation |
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| 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. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2022 | Wilks, B., Montiel, F., & Wakes, S. J. (2022). Complex Resonances and Bandgaps of Split-Ring Resonator Arrays with Polygonal Sub-Structure. DOI |
Courses I teach
- MATH 1056 Linear Algebra (2025)
- MATH 1066 Essential Mathematics 1: Algebra and Trigonometry (2025)
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | A mathematical model of water wave/ice shelf interactions incorporating energy transfer across the grounding line | Master of Research | Master | Full Time | Mr Kye Jones-Anderson |
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