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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

Transients in natural ventilation — A time-periodically-varying source
D Bolster, C Caulfield
– Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
(2008)
29,
119
Temporal variation of non-ideal plumes with sudden reductions in buoyancy flux
MM SCASE, CP CAULFIELD, SB DALZIEL
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2008)
600,
181
Local implications for self-similar turbulent plume models
MM SCASE, CP CAULFIELD, PF LINDEN, SB DALZIEL
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
575,
257
Natural ventilation in interconnected chambers
MR FLYNN, CP CAULFIELD
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
564,
139
Boussinesq plumes and jets with decreasing source strengths in stratified environments
MM SCASE, CP CAULFIELD, SB DALZIEL
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
563,
463
Time-dependent plumes and jets with decreasing source strengths
MM SCASE, CP CAULFIELD, SB DALZIEL, JCR HUNT
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
563,
443
Plumes With Nonmonotonic Mixing Behaviour
C-CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Geophysical Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
79,
173
Time-dependent mixing in stratified Kelvin-Helmholtz billows: Experimental observations
MD Patterson, CP Caulfield, JN McElwaine, SB Dalziel
– Geophysical Research Letters
(2006)
33,
L15608
Multiple linear instability of layered stratified shear flow
C-CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
258,
255
Bounds on dissipation in stress-driven flow in a rotating frame
W TANG, CP CAULFIELD, WR YOUNG
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
540,
373
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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