John Richard Ockendon FRS (born 1940)[3] is an applied mathematician noted especially for his contribution to fluid dynamics and novel applications of mathematics to real world problems.

[2] He is a professor at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, served as the first director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) and a former director of the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering.

[citation needed] Ockendon was privately educated at Dulwich College[3] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965[4] for research on fluid dynamics supervised by Alan B.

Other industrial collaboration has led to new ideas for lens design, fibre manufacture, extensional and surface-tension- driven flows and glass manufacture, fluidised-bed models, semiconductor device modelling and a range of other problems in mechanics and heat and mass transfer, especially scattering and ray theory, nonlinear wave propagation, nonlinear oscillations, nonlinear diffusion and impact in solids and liquids.

[citation needed] Ockendon was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1999, and awarded the IMA Gold Medal by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in 2006.