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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

The dynamics of stratified horizontal shear flows at low Péclet number
L Cope, P Garaud, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2020)
903,
a1
Time‐Lapse Acoustic Imaging of Mesoscale and Fine‐Scale Variability within the Faroe‐Shetland Channel
A Dickinson, NJ White, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
(2020)
125,
ARTN e2019JC015861
Time-Lapse Seismic Imaging of Oceanic Fronts and Transient Lenses Within South Atlantic Ocean
KL Gunn, N White, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans
(2020)
125,
ARTN e2020JC016293
Mixing in forced stratified turbulence and its dependence on large-scale forcing
CJ Howland, JR Taylor, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2020)
898,
a7
The viscous Holmboe instability for smooth shear and density profiles
JP Parker, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2020)
896,
a14
Wake induced long range repulsion of aqueous dunes
KA Bacik, S Lovett, C-CP Caulfield, NM Vriend
– Physical review letters
(2020)
124,
054501
Sensitivity of Deep Ocean Mixing to Local Internal Tide Breaking and Mixing Efficiency
L Cimoli, CCP Caulfield, HL Johnson, DP Marshall, A Mashayek, AC Naveira Garabato, C Vic
– Geophysical Research Letters
(2019)
46,
14622
Nonlinear optimal control strategies for buoyancy-driven flows in the built environment
S Nabi, P Grover, CP Caulfield
– Computers and Fluids
(2019)
194,
104313
Testing the assumptions underlying ocean mixing methodologies using direct numerical simulations
JR Taylor, SM de Bruyn Kops, CP Caulfield, PF Linden
– Journal of Physical Oceanography
(2019)
49,
2761
Kelvin-Helmholtz billows above Richardson number $1/4$
JP Parker, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2019)
879,
r1
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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