ד"ר אופיר נווה

2010-2013: Postdoctorat in applied mathematics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Gol'dshtein.

2010-2011: Teaching certificate, Lifshitz College of Education Jerusalem.

2006-2010: Ph.D. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "Theoretical and Numerical Analysis of Spray Combustion", Applied Mathematics, under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Gol'dshtein.

2002-2005: M. Sc. Department of Mathematics (summa cum laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Decomposition of Tensors Spaces", General Relativity, under the supervision of Professor Shmuel Kaniel.

1998-2002: B. Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.            

2010-present: Adjunct Lecturer, Jerusalem College of Technology.
2011-present: Lecturer and professional examiner, Lifshitz College of Education Jerusalem.
2010-2012: Faculty Member, The David Yellin Academic College of Education Jerusalem.
2010-2012: Physics Laboratory Manager, The David Yellin Academic College of Education Jerusalem.
2013-Senior Lecturer , Jerusalem College of Technology.
2009-2010: Professional advisor for a project of the Defence Minister of Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2009: Conference organization: "Twelfth Mini-Workshop on Applied and Computational Mathematics", Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
2006-2010: Teaching assistant for undergraduate students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
2000-2005: Physics Laboratory Manager, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2002-2005: Teaching assistant for undergraduate students, The Hebrew University of the Jerusalem, Department of Mathematics.

2005: Federman's scholarship for M.Sc. thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2007: Certificate of Excellence for teacher assistant, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Current and Future Research Subjects: Spray combustion, Thermal explosion limit, Asymptotic analysis, Heat and mass transfer, Thermal radiation effect, Perturbation theory, Singular perturbations analysis (SPA), Method of invariant integral manifolds (MIM), Simgular perturbed vector  field (SPVF), Singular perturbed homotopy analysis method (SPHAM).

Member of research team at project of Defense Minister of Israel at Ben-Gurion University in the faculty of humanities and Social Science under the supervision of Professor Yair Nueman (Grant via BGU).

I am the second master's advisor at the Ariel University of a student named Ifat Baron. The directive is in collaboration with the Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky faculty member.

I am leading a research student Mirim Elbaz and Itzchak Iluz in the outstanding program of the Academic Lev Center

The subject of the research is a mathematical modeling of Bladder and Prostate Cancer.

5.1 Peer-Reviewed Papers in Refereed Journals:

1. Neuman, Y., Argyris, A., & Nave, O. (2008). Sign-mediated concept formation. The American Journal of Semiotics, 24(1), 107-133 [Special issue Biosemiotics].
2. Neuman, , & Nave, O. (2008). A mathematical theory of sign-mediated concept formation. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 201(1-2), 72-81.
3. Neuman, Y., & Nave, O. (2008). On the Semio-Mathematical Nature of Codes. Biosemiotics, Springer Netherlands, 1(1), 99-111.
4. Neuman, Y., & Nave, O. (2009). Metaphor-based meaning excavation. Information Sciences, 179 (16), 2719-2728.
5. Suraj, A., & Nave, O. (2009). Approximate Critical Conditions in Thermal Explosion Theory for a two-step Kinetic Model. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 47(2), 790-807.
6. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., & Bykov, V. (2010). A Probabilistic Model of Thermal Explosion in Polydisperse Spray. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217(6), 2698-2709.
7. Neuman, Y., & Nave, O. (2010). Why the brain needs language in order to be self-conscious. New Ideas in Psychology. 28(1), 37-48.
8. Nave, O., & Gol'dshtein, V. (2011). The Flammable Spray Effect on Thermal Explosion of a Combustible Gas-Fuel Mixture. Combustion Science and Technology, 183(6), 519-539.
9. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., Lehav, Y., & Bykov, V. (2011). Thermal Radiation Effects on Thermal Explosion in Polydisperse Fuel Spray-Probabilistic. The International Journal of  Spray and Combustion Dynamics, 3(2), 45-68.
10. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., & Dan, E. (2011). The Delay Phenomena in Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray-Using the Method of Integral Manifolds. Atomization and Spray, 21(1), 69-85.
11. Nave, O,. Gol'dshtein, V., Bykov, V., & Lehavi, Y. (2011). Numerical Simulations Applying to the Analysis of Thermal Explosion of Organic Gel Fuel in a Hot Gas. Fuel 90(11), 3410-3416.
12. Neuman, Y., Nave, O., & Dolev, E. (2011). Buzzwords on their way to a tipping-point: A view from the blogosphere. Complexity, 16 (4), 58-68.
13. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., & Lehavi, Y. (2012). The Time Evolution of the Size Distribution of Droplets Effects on the Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray. Applied Mathematics and Modeling, 36(3), 1068-1084.
14. Nave, O, Ajadi, S., & Lehavi, Y. (2012). Analysis of the dynamics of fuel spray using asymptotic methods: The method of integral invariant manifolds. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 218(10), 5877-5890.
15. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., & Lehavi, Y. (2012). Physical Continuous Model of Heating, Evaporation and Ignition of Polydisperse Fuel Droplets. International Journal of Chemistry, (IJC), 4(3), 61-72.
16. Neuman, Y., Cohen, J., Bekerman, Z., & Nave, O. (2012). A generic method for measuring the potential number of structure-preserving transformations. Complexity, 18(1), 26-37.
17. Nave, O., Lehavi, Y., Gol'dshtein, V., & Ajadi, S. (2012). Application of the Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) and the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) to the Problem of the Thermal Explosion in a Radiation Gas with Polydisperse Fuel Spray. Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 1(4), 115-124.
18. Nave, O., Ajad, S., Lehavi, Y., & Gol'dshtein, V. (2013). Comparison of Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) and Method of Integral Manifold (MIM) on a Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray System. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics,
19. Nave, O., Hareli, S., Gol'dshtein, V., (2014). Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method. Applied Mathematics and Modeling, 38(19-20), 4614–4624.
20. Nave, O., Neuman, Y., Perlovsky, L. Howard, N., (2014). How much Information should we Drop to become Intelligent? Applied Mathematics and Computation, 245, 261-264.
21. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V. Ajad, S., (2015). Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method Applied to the Pressure Driven Flame in Porous Media. Combustion and Flame, 162(3), 864–873.
22. Hareli, S. Nave O. (2015) . Auto-detection of a target by eye-movement, Complexity, 21(6), 452–459.
23. O. (2015). Analysis of the two-dimensional polydisperse liquid sprays in a laminar boundary layer flow using the similarity transformation method. Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, 2(20), 1-15.
24. O., Lehavi Y.,  Ajadi S., Gol’dshtein V. (2016). Analysis of Polydisperse Fuel Spray Flame, Heat and Mass Transfer, 53(2), 649-660.
25. O. (2016). Analysis Combustion of Fuel Droplets Release to the Atmosphere Using Homotopy Analysis Method, Cogent Mathematics & statistics, 3(1), 1-17.
26. O., and Gol'dshtein, V.,  (2016). A Combination Between Two Semi-Analytical Method Called: Singular Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method, Applied to Combustion of Spray Fuel Droplets. Cogent Mathematics& statistics, 3(1),  1-12.
27.   O., Gol'dshtein, V., and Ajadi S., (2017). Mathematical Modelling of Spray Combustion-Numerical and Analytical Analysis with application to Engineering Science, Applied Physics Research, 9(1),  1-55.
28. O., Singularly Perturbed Vector Field Method (SPVF) Applied to Combustion of Monodisperse Fuel Spray. Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems,(2017).
29. , O., Baron., Y., and Manju Sharma, (2018) A Semi-Analytical Method for Solving Problems on the Role of Prey Taxis in a Biological Control-Mathematical Model. Journal of Multiscale Modelling. (accepted).
30. , O., (2018). A New Method to Find the Base Functions Approximate the Solution that Received from the Method of Directly Defining the Inverse Mapping for Systems of Nonlinear Differential Equations. Journal of Multiscale Modelling. (accepted).
31. , O., Elbaz., M., (2018). Method of Directly Defining the Inverse Mapping Applied to Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy- Mathematical Model. International Journal of Biomathematics. (accepted).
32. , O., Hareli., S., (2018). Singular Perturbed Vector Field Method Applied to Combustion in Diesel Engine: Continuous Case with Thermal Runaway. Applied Mathematical Modelling. (accepted).
33. , O., Elbaz., M., (2018). Combination of Singularly Perturbed Vector Field Method and Method of Directly Defining the Inverse Mapping Applied to Complex ODE System Prostate Cancer Model.  Journal of Biological Dynamics. (accepted).
34. , O., Elbaz., M., Shlomo., Hareli.,  Itzhak Hayim Iluz, Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky (2019). BCGand IL − 2 model for bladder cancer treatment with fast and slow dynamics based on SPVF method—stability analysis.  Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 16(5),  5346-5379

5.2 Conferences

1. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., & Bykov, V. Influence of assumed drop size distribution on model predictions of thermal explosion in statistically homogeneous spray combustion with highly exothermic reactions. (WIP) The 24th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute. Carleton hotel, Tel Aviv, December 16, 2009.
2. Nave, O. Analytical expression of thermal explosion limit in polydisperse fuel spray. The 12th Israeli Mini-Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, December 31, 2009.
3. Neuman, , Cohen, J.,  Kedma, G., & Nave, O. A New Technology in Order to Extract the Meaning of target Domain by Intelligent Web. Innovation 2010. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. April 15, 2010.
4. Neuman, Y., Cohen, J., Kedma, G., & Nave, O. Using Web-Intelligence for Excavating the Emerging Meaning of Target-Concepts. International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies. IEEE/WIC/ACM WI. Toronto, Canada, September 3, 2010.
5. Nave, O. A probabilistic model of thermal explosion in polydisperse fuel spary. The 33rd International Symposium on Combustion. Tsinghua University, Beijing, August 1-6, 2010.
6. Bykov, V. Gol'dshtein, V., & Nave, O. Thermal Explosion Sprays. The 13th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, Corfu, Greece, April 27-29, 2011.
7. Nave, O. About thermal explosion of polydisperse fuel spray. The 34th International Symposium on Combustion. Warsaw, Poland, July 29 – August 3, 2012.
8. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., Singular Perturbad Homotopy Analysis Methods. (WIP) The 26th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute. Carleton hotel, Tel Aviv, December 13, 2012.
9. Ajadi, S., Nave, O., & Gol'dstein, V. Oscillatory Dynamical Behaviour in Combustible Gas Bubble using a Three Step Reaction Model. MaCKie 2013, Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering Conference, 4th to 6th February 2013, India Madras.
10. Nave, O., A new analytical method for solving the problem of thermal explosion in polydisperse fuel spray, MaCKie 2013, Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering Conference,  4th to 6th February 2013, India Madras.
11. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., Analytical Methods for Solving the Problem of Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray System in the Form of Singularly Perturbed System, SIAM: Fourteenth International Conference on Numerical Combustion, San-Antonio, Texas USA, April 8-10, 2013.
12. Nave, O., Gol'dshtein, V., Premixed Polydisperse Fuel Spray Flame Based on Droplet Size Moment. (WIP) The 25th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute. Tel Aviv, December 27, 2013.
13. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., Polydisperse Fuel Spray Flame Based on Droplets Size Moment. French-Italian Sections of the IFRF and the Combustion Institute. Piza, Italy, 23-24 Apr, 2014.
14. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method Applied to Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray, The 35th International Symposium on Combustion, USA, San-Francisco, 3-8 Aug, 2014.
15. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method Applied to the Pressure Driven Flame in Porous Media. (WIP) The 24th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute. Dan-Panorama hotel, Tel Aviv, December 10, 2015.
16. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., Singular Perturbed Homotopy Analysis  Method applied to Combustion of (Polydisperse) Fuel Spray, EMN Meeting on Droplets 2016, Energy Materials Nanotechnology, May 9-13, San-Sebastian, Spain, ,  (I was the Invited Speaker) 2016.
17. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., Singularly Perturbed Vector Field Method Applied to Thermal Explosion of Polydisperse Fuel Spray, (WIP) The 36th International Symposium on Combustion, SEOUL, Coex-Korea, July 31- Aug 5, 2016.
18. Nave, O., Gol’dshtein, V., A Combination Between Two Semi-Analytical Method Called "Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method, (SPHAM)" Applied to Monodisperse Fuel Spray, (WIP) The 30th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of The Combustion Institute, Dan December 29 2016, Dan-Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv.
19. Nave, O., Singular Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method, BIT’s 3^rd Annual World Congress of Smart Materials-2017, Bangkok-Thailand.
20. Nave, O. A Combination Between Two Semi-Analytical Method Called "Singularly Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method, (spham)" Applied to Combustion of Spray Fuel Droplets.  International Conference on Numerical Combustion, Rozen Plaza Orlando Florida USA, 3-5 April, 2017.
21. Nave, O., Singular Perturbed Homotopy Analysis Method, BIT’s 3^rd Annual World Congress of Smart Materials-2017, Bangkok-Thailand.
22. Nave, O., Singularly Perturbed Vector Field Method (SPVF) Applied to Combustion of Monodisperse Fuel Spray, (WIP) 31st Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute, Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv, 2017.
23. Nave, O., Singular Perturbed Vector Field Method (SPVF) Applied to ODE Systems, 20th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Bangkok, Thailand, February, 8-9, 2018.
24. Nave, O., Singularly Perturbed Vector Field Method (SPVF) Applied to Combustion of Monodisperse Fuel Spray, The 37th International Symposium on Combustion, The Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland from, 29 July - 3 August 2018.

Nave, O. Singular Perturbed Vector Field Applied to Turbo Charge-Engine. (WIP) 32st Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute, Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv, 2018.

1. Professional reviewer of the following journals:

• Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Computers and Mathematics with Applications
• Physical Review & Research International
• Heat amd Mass Transfer
• International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
• DJ Journal of Engineering and Applied Mathematics
• Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research
• Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (DEDS)
• Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier)
• Energy & Fuels (ACS Publicartions) (from 2017)
• Journal of Computational Physisc (Elsevier) (From (2018))
• Biophysical Reviews and Letters
• Mathematical and Computer Modelling Dynamical Systems

1. I was a examiner for a PhD candidate at the Technion (2015)

I'm a member of research team working on a project underway at BGU and financed by the Israel Ministry of Defence.  The grant is cantered in the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences and is under the supervision of Prof. Yair Nueman.