Career
- 2006-present Professor of Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1997-present Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2001-2006 Reader in Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1997-2001 University Lecturer, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1992-1997 Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 1987-1993 Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1988-1990 Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Research
John Lister has a wide range of interests both in fundamental fluid mechanics and in the application of fluid mechanics to understand processes in geophysics. Some indication of this range is provided by the following topics:
Fluid driven crack propagation and dykes, Infinite-Prandtl number convection and mantle dynamics, Capillary pinch-off and film rupture, Similarity solutions and finite-time singularities, Viscous gravity currents and lava flows, Particle-laden flows, turbidity currents and sedimentation, The thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of the Earth's core, Low Reynolds number flow, Flows with solidification or temperature-dependent viscosity.
Selected Publications
Publications
Influence of cooling on lava-flow dynamics: Comment and Reply
– Geology
(1994)
22,
93
Dike transport of granitoid magmas
– Geology
(1993)
21,
845
Sediment-laden gravity currents with reversing buoyancy
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(1993)
114,
243
(doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(93)90028-8)
Analytical model for solidification of the Earth's core
– Nature
(1992)
356,
329
(doi: 10.1038/356329a0)
SOLIDIFICATION AND CONVECTION IN THE CORE OF THE EARTH
– INTERACTIVE DYNAMICS OF CONVECTION AND SOLIDIFICATION
(1992)
219,
265
The Effects of Shape on Crystal Settling and on the Rheology of Magmas
– The Journal of Geology
(1991)
99,
457
(doi: 10.1086/629506)
Singularities and Similarity Solutions in Capillary Breakup
– IUTAM SYMPOSIUM ON NON-LINEAR SINGULARITIES IN DEFORMATION AND FLOW, PROCEEDINGS
(1991)
257
(doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-4736-1_23)
The eruption of komatiites and picrites in preference to primitive basalts
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(1991)
105,
343
(doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(91)90142-5)
Steady solutions for feeder dykes in a density-stratified lithosphere
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(1991)
107,
233
(doi: 10.1016/0012-821x(91)90073-q)
The general solution of Stokes flow in a half-space as an integral of the velocity on the boundary
– The Physics of Fluids
(1988)
31,
1321
(doi: 10.1063/1.866724)
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