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 (1978)
- 1996-2001: Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
- 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 (from 1964) 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 my website for complete list of publications up to 2014
- 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
- 1978 Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids (CUP).
- 1985 Magnetostatic equilibria and analogous Euler flows of arbitrarily complex topology, J.Fluid Mech.159, 359-378
- 2010 Goldstein, R.E., Moffatt, H.K., Pesci, A.I. & Ricca, R.L. Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.107, 21979-21984.
- 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 Bajer, K. & Moffatt, H.K. Magnetic relaxation, current sheets, and structure formation in an extremely tenuous fluid medium. Astrophys. J. 779, 169-183.
- 2014 Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111, 3663-3670.
- 2014 Kimura, Y. & Moffatt, H.K. Reconnection of skewed vortices. J.Fluid Mech. 751, 329-345.
- 2014 The fluid dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell. In: James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work. Eds: R. Flood, M. McCartney & A.Whitaker (Oxford Univ.Press).
A full list of publications can be found here
Publications
Transport effects associated with turbulence with particular attention to the influence of helicity
– Reports on Progress in Physics
(1999)
46,
621
(doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/46/5/002)
Formation and disruption of concentrated vortices in turbulence
– Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications
(1998)
46,
327
(doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-5118-4_80)
On the effect of a central vortex on a stretched magnetic flux tube
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1997)
339,
121
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112097005466)
A similarity solution for viscous source flow on a vertical plane
– European Journal of Applied Mathematics
(1997)
8,
37
(doi: 10.1017/S0956792596002896)
The energy and helicity of knotted magnetic flux tubes
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A
(1997)
451,
609
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1995.0146)
Corner singularities in three-dimensional Stokes flow
– IUTAM Symposium on Non-Linear Singularities in Deformation and Flow, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium
(1997)
21
On general transformations and variational principles for the magnetohydrodynamics of ideal fluids .3. Stability criteria for axisymmetric flows
– Journal of Plasma Physics
(1997)
57,
89
(doi: 10.1017/s0022377896005272)
Helicity and the Călugăreanu invariant
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A
(1997)
439,
411
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1992.0159)
Structure and stability of solutions of the Euler equations: a lagrangian approach
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences
(1997)
333,
321
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.1990.0164)
Direct lyapunov method in nonlinear stability of complex flows
– Nonlinear Analysis
(1997)
30,
563
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