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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

 

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 

Curriculum Vitae

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.159359-378
  • 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

The early years of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Style and international impact
HK Moffatt
– Comptes Rendus - Mecanique
(2017)
345,
498
Soap-film dynamics and topological transitions under continuous deformation
HK Moffatt, RE Goldstein, AI Pesci
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
060503
Helicity and celestial magnetism
HK Moffatt
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2016)
472,
20160183
Magnetic relaxation and the Taylor conjecture
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Plasma Physics
(2015)
81,
905810608
Flashpoint
D Lynden-Bell, HK Moffatt
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2015)
452,
902
Instability of a Mobius Strip Minimal Surface and a Link with Systolic Geometry
AI Pesci, RE Goldstein, GP Alexander, HK Moffatt
– Phys Rev Lett
(2015)
114,
127801
Instability of a gravity current within a soap film
RE Goldstein, HE Huppert, HK Moffatt, AI Pesci
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
753,
R1
Reconnection of skewed vortices
Y Kimura, HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
751,
329
Boundary singularities produced by the motion of soap films
RE Goldstein, J McTavish, HK Moffatt, AI Pesci
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2014)
111,
8339
Note on the triad interactions of homogeneous turbulence
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
741,
r3
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Research Group

Astrophysics