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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 1992-1994: Post-doctoral research fellow for the Japan-Canada Project in Weather and Climate of the Arctic, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
  • 1992-1993: Senior Visitor, Department of Engineering Science, Hokkaido University
  • 1995-1999: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
  • 1999-2001: Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • 2001-2005: Associate Professor (with tenure) of Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • 2004-2005: Visiting Researcher (Poste Rouge au CNRS) in the Hydrodynamics Laboratory, (LaDyHX) Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS
  • 2005-9: University Lecturer in Fluid Flow, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2009-13: University Senior Lecturer in Fluid Flow, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2013-15: Reader in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2015-: Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2020-: Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2005-: Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Research

  • stratified flows
  • turbulent mixing processes
  • Generalised flow instability and transition
  • turbulent plumes
  • building ventilation

Publications

Evidence for layered anisotropic stratified turbulence in a freely evolving horizontal shear flow
SF Lewin, C-CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
983,
a20
Prandtl number effects on extreme mixing events in forced stratified turbulence
N Petropoulos, MMP Couchman, A Mashayek, SM de Bruyn Kops, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
983,
r1
  Prandtl Number Effects on Extreme Mixing Events in Forced Stratified Turbulence
C-CP Caulfield, N Petropoulos, MMP Couchman, S de Bruyn Kops, A Mashayek
(2024)
A data-driven method for modelling dissipation rates in stratified turbulence
SF Lewin, SM De Bruyn Kops, CCP Caulfield, GD Portwood
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
977,
a37
Settling versus mixing in stratified shear flows
N Petropoulos, CCP Caulfield, P Meunier, E Villermaux
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
974,
r1
Turbulent disruption of density staircases in stratified shear flows
N Petropoulos, A Mashayek, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
961,
a30
Mixing across stable density interfaces in forced stratified turbulence
MMP Couchman, SM De Bruyn Kops, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
961,
a20
Introducing JFM Notebooks
C Meneveau, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
952,
e1
Structured input-output analysis of stably stratified plane Couette flow
C Liu, C-CP Caulfield, DF Gayme
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
948,
ARTN A10
A physical-statistical recipe for representation of small-scale oceanic turbulent mixing in climate models
A Mashayek, BB Cael, L Cimoli, MH Alford, CP Caulfield
– Flow
(2022)
2,
ARTN E24
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744