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Faculty of Mathematics

 

 

Career

  • 2002-present:  Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics
  • 2002-2003: Blaise Pascal Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
  • 2000-2004: President, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • 1961-1976 and 1980-present: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 1980-2002: Professor of Mathematical Physics (1978)
  • 1996-2001: Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  • 1992-1999: Professeur en temps partiel, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1983-1991: Head of DAMTP
  • 1977-1980: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University
  • 1966-1983: Editor, J.Fluid Mech.
  • 1961-1976: Assistant Lecturer, then (from 1964) Lecturer, DAMTP
     

Research

Keith is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His  research interests are Dynamo Theory, Vortex Dynamics, Turbulence, and all aspects of Fluid Dynamics 

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

  • see my website for complete list of publications up to 2014
  • 1964  Viscous and resistive eddies near a sharp corner. J.Fluid Mech. 18, 1-18.
  • 1969 The degree of knottedness of tangled vortex lines, J.Fluid Mech. 35, 117-129
  • 1978 Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids (CUP).
  • 1985 Magnetostatic equilibria and analogous Euler flows of arbitrarily complex topology, J.Fluid Mech.159359-378
  • 2010 Goldstein, R.E., Moffatt, H.K., Pesci, A.I. & Ricca, R.L. Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.107,  21979-21984.
  • 2010 Environmental Hazards: Fluid Dynamics of Extreme Events (Eds: H.K.Moffatt & E.Shuckburgh)
  • 2012 Homogeneous turbulence: an introductory review. J. of Turbulence, 13:1, N39
  • 2013 Bajer, K. & Moffatt, H.K. Magnetic relaxation, current sheets, and structure formation in an extremely tenuous fluid medium. Astrophys. J. 779, 169-183.
  • 2014 Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111, 3663-3670.
  • 2014 Kimura, Y. & Moffatt, H.K. Reconnection of skewed vortices. J.Fluid Mech. 751, 329-345.
  • 2014 The fluid dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell.  In: James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work. Eds: R. Flood, M. McCartney & A.Whitaker (Oxford Univ.Press).

A full list of publications can be found here

Publications

Some developments in the theory of turbulence
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
106,
27
A dynamic runaway effect associated with flux expulsion in magnetohydrodynamic channel flow
H Kamkar, HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
121,
107
Flow of fluid of non-uniform viscosity in converging and diverging channels
A Hooper, BR Duffy, HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
117,
283
Effects of inertia in forced corner flows
C Hancock, E Lewis, HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
112,
315
Local similarity solutions and their limitations
HK Moffatt, BR Duffy
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
96,
299
Corrigendum local similarity solutions and their limitations
HK Moffatt, BR Duffy
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
99,
860
The response of Hill's spherical vortex to a small axisymmetric disturbance
HK Moffatt, DW Moore
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
87,
749
An approach to a dynamic theory of dynamo action in a rotating conducting fluid
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
53,
385
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 2. Edited by M. VAN DYKE, W. G. VINCENTI and J. V. WEHAUSEN. Annual Reviews, Inc., 1970. 462 pp. $10.00.
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
49,
415
Dynamo action associated with random inertial waves in a rotating conducting fluid
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
44,
705
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Research Group

Astrophysics