Professor Keith Moffatt

 

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
• 1996-2001: Director, Isaac Newton Institute
• 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 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 

Selected Publications

• see www.moffatt.tc for complete list of publications up to 2010
• 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
• 1985 Magnetostatic equilibria and analogous Euler flows of arbitrarily complex topology, J.Fluid Mech. 359-378
• 1978 Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids (CUP)
• 2010 A Voyage through Turbulence (Eds: P.Davidson, H.K.Moffatt, K.Sreenivasan & Y.Kaneda), CUP
• 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 The Fluid Dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell (In: James Clerk Maxwell, Eds: R. Flood, M. McCartney & A.Whitaker (Oxford Univ.Press, to appear)
• 2013 Three Coins in a Fountain. J.Fluid Mech. (to appear)