Dr Artur Gower

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Lecturer in Dynamics

Art Gower
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a.l.gower@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 7806
Sir Frederick Mappin Building

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Dr Artur Gower
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Welcome! My background is in applying mathematics (BSc, MSc, PhD) to understand the microstructure of complex solids. I mostly develop code and mathematical models for waves (like sound and radio).

Research interests

My main research interests include:

  • Wave scattering
  • Solid mechanics
  • Random media
  • Machine learning

We still do not fully understand how waves (like sound, radio, light, and vibrations) behave in many materials. How well can these waves propagate, and how much information can they carry in different materials?

Answering these questions will allow us to design the next generation of materials that can control waves. These new materials can then improve telecommunications by controlling light and elastic waves, and mechanical engineering by controlling vibrations and even earthquakes!

The main way we sense the world around us is by using waves too. Light and sound are reflected from all materials, and when they reach us, our brains can decode them to understand what objects are around us.

In a similar way, waves are used to sense materials during manufacturing. To automate manufacturing, we need to develop sensors that can decode waves like our brains do. Ideally these sensors would be able to detect changes in the material's microstructure, and as a result determine when the material has reached its ideal flexibility, strength, and capacity to transmit information!

Publications

Journal articles

  • Kent JJ, Loures MDC & Gower AL (2025) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 481(2322).
  • Gower AL, Shearer T, Ciarletta P & Destrade M (2025) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 481(2307).
  • Piva PS, Napal KK & Gower AL (2024) . New Journal of Physics, 26(12).
  • Napal KK, Piva PS & Gower AL (2024) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2292).
  • Karnezis A, Piva PS & Gower AL (2024) . New Journal of Physics, 26(6).
  • Berjamin H & Gower AL (2024) . Extreme Mechanics Letters, 68, 102139-102139.
  • Destrade M, Li G, Gower AL, Cao Y, Yun S-H, Zhang Z & Yin Z (2024) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3_Supplement), A329-A329.
  • Gower AL, Hawkins SC & Kristensson G (2023) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 479(2279).
  • Zhang Z, Li G-Y, Jiang Y, Zheng Y, Gower AL, Destrade M & Cao Y (2023) . Science Advances, 9(10).
  • Mukherjee S, Destrade M & Gower AL (2022) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 478(2266).
  • García Neefjes E, Nigro D, Gower AL, Assier RC, Pinfield VJ & Parnell WJ (2022) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 478(2265).
  • Li G-Y, Gower AL, Destrade M & Yun S-H (2022) . Communications Physics, 5(1).
  • Gower AL & Kristensson G (2021) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(4_Supplement), A51-A51.
  • Gower AL & Kristensson G (2021) . New Journal of Physics, 23.
  • Li G-Y, Gower AL & Destrade M (2020) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(6), 3963-3970.
  • Gower AL, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2019) . SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 79(6), 2569-2592.
  • Gower AL, Abrahams ID & Parnell WJ (2019) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 475(2229).
  • Agosti A, Gower AL & Ciarletta P (2018) . Mechanics Research Communications, 93, 4-10.
  • Francis MJ, Holmes MJ, Povey MJ, Pinfield VJ, Gower AL, Huang J, Forrester DM, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2018) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3_Supplement), 1758-1758.
  • Gower AL, Gower RM, Deakin J, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2018) . EPL, 122(5).
  • Gower AL, Smith MJA, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2018) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474(2212).
  • Gower AL, Shearer T & Ciarletta P (2017) . Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 70(4), 455-478.
  • Carfagna M, Destrade M, Gower AL & Grillo A (2017) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2093).
  • Pinfield VJ, Forrester DM, Gower AL, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2017) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5_Supplement), 3977-3977.
  • Gower AL, Deakin J, Parnell WJ, Gower RM & Abrahams ID (2017) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(5_Supplement), 3810-3810.
  • Ciarletta P, Destrade M, Gower AL & Taffetani M (2016) . Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 90, 242-253.
  • Ciarletta P, Destrade M & Gower AL (2016) . Scientific Reports, 6.
  • Gower RM & Gower AL (2016) . Mathematical Programming, 155(1-2), 81-103.
  • Gower AL, Ciarletta P & Destrade M (2015) . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 471(2183).
  • Gower AL (2015) . Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 95(1), 217-229.
  • Nolan DR, Gower AL, Destrade M, Ogden RW & McGarry JP (2014) . Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 39, 48-60.
  • Ciarletta P, Destrade M & Gower AL (2013) . The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 66(2), 273-288.
  • Gower AL, Destrade M & Ogden RW (2013) . Wave Motion, 50(8), 1218-1228.

Conference proceedings

  • Kent JJ, De Loures MC & Gower AL (2024) A tomographic method to predict forces in a rolling element bearings. Proceedings of ISMA - International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering and USD - International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics., Vol. 2024 (pp 1518-1529). Leuven, Belgium, 9 September 2024 - 9 September 2024.

Preprints

  • Zhang Z, Li G-Y, Jiang Y, Zheng Y, Gower AL, Destrade M & Cao Y (2025) , arXiv.
  • Piva PS, Gower AL & Abrahams ID (2025) Designing Band Gaps with Randomly Distributed Sub-Wavelength Helmholtz Resonators.
  • Kent JJ, Loures MDC & Gower AL (2024) Elastic waves in bearing raceways: the forward and inverse problem.
  • Piva PS, Napal KK & Gower AL (2024) Acoustic waves in a halfspace material filled with random particulate.
  • Gower AL, Shearer T, Ciarletta P & Destrade M (2024) , arXiv.
  • Karnezis A & Gower AL (2024) , arXiv.
  • Berjamin H & Gower AL (2023) , arXiv.
  • Karnezis A, Piva PS & Gower AL (2023) , arXiv.
  • Neefjes EG, Nigro D, Gower AL, Assier RC, Pinfield VJ & Parnell WJ (2022) , arXiv.
  • Mukherjee S, Destrade M & Gower AL (2022) , arXiv.
  • Li G-Y, Gower AL, Destrade M & Yun S-H (2022) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL & Kristensson G (2020) , arXiv.
  • Nolan DR, Gower AL, Destrade M, Ogden RW & McGarry P (2020) , arXiv.
  • Ciarletta P, Destrade M, Gower AL & Taffetani M (2020) , arXiv.
  • Carfagna M, Destrade M, Gower AL & Grillo A (2020) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Destrade M & Ogden RW (2020) , arXiv.
  • Li G-Y, Gower AL & Destrade M (2020) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Abrahams ID & Parnell WJ (2019) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2018) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Gower RM, Deakin J, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2018) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Smith MJA, Parnell WJ & Abrahams ID (2017) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Shearer T & Ciarletta P (2016) , arXiv.
  • Gower AL, Ciarletta P & Destrade M (2015) , arXiv.
  • Gower RM & Gower AL (2013) , arXiv.
  • Ciarletta P, Destrade M & Gower AL (2013) , arXiv.

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