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Career

  • 2017- date:  DAMTP,  Cambridge University
  • 1996-2017:  Mathematics,  Bristol University
  • 1992-1996:  Mathematics,  Newcastle University
  • 1992          :  PhD,  MIT

Research

General fluid mechanics: the Navier-Stokes equations (nonlinear dynamics, transition and turbulence); geophysical and astrophysical fluid mechanics (e.g. convection; stably stratified flows; tidal, precessional and librational motion of planetary interiors and subsurface oceans; accretion disks);

Selected Publications

Publications

Upper bounds for turbulent Couette flow incorporating the poloidal power constraint
RR Kerswell, AM Soward
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
328,
161
Oscillatory internal shear layers in rotating and precessing flows
R Hollerbach, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
298,
327
On the viscous decay rates of inertial waves in a rotating circular cylinder
RR Kerswell, CF Barenghi
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
285,
203
On the linear instability of elliptic pipe flow
RR Kerswell, A Davey
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
316,
307
Tidal excitation of hydromagnetic waves and their damping in the Earth
RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
274,
219
Granular collapse in two dimensions
NJ Balmforth, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
538,
399
Recent progress in understanding the transition to turbulence in a pipe
RR Kerswell
– Nonlinearity
(2005)
18,
r17
Dam break with Coulomb friction: A model for granular slumping?
RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2005)
17,
057101
A friction factor bound for transitional pipe flow
SC Plasting, RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2004)
17,
011706
Bounds on horizontal convection
JH Siggers, RR Kerswell, NJ Balmforth
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
517,
55
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Research Group

High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

G1.03

Telephone

01223 766349