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
- see homepage (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rrk26)
Publications
Experimental and theoretical progress in pipe flow transition
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2008)
366,
2671
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0063)
Coherent Structures in Localized and Global Pipe Turbulence
– Physical Review Letters
(2008)
100,
124501
Asymmetric, helical, and mirror-symmetric traveling waves in pipe flow.
– Physical review letters
(2007)
99,
074502
Recurrence of travelling waves in transitional pipe flow
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
584,
69
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112007006301)
Critical Behavior in the Relaminarization of Localized Turbulence in Pipe Flow
– Physical Review Letters
(2007)
98,
014501
Critical Behavior in the Relaminarization of Localized Turbulence in Pipe Flow
– Physical Review Letters
(2007)
98,
014501
Recurrence of travelling waves in transitional pipe flow
– Advances in Turbulence Xi Proceedings of the 11th Euromech European Turbulence Conference
(2007)
117,
82
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-72604-3_24)
Elliptical Instabilities Of Stratified, Hydromagnetic Waves
– Geophysical Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
71,
105
(doi: 10.1080/03091929308203599)
Infinite-Prandtl-number convection. Part 2. A singular limit of upper bound theory
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
560,
159
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112006000450)
Enhanced mobility of granular mixtures of fine and coarse particles
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(2006)
246,
466
(doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.007)
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