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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2017- date:  DAMTP,  Cambridge University
  • 1996-2017:  Mathematics,  Bristol University
  • 1992-1996:  Mathematics,  Newcastle University
  • 1992          :  PhD,  MIT

Research

General fluid mechanics: the Navier-Stokes equations (nonlinear dynamics, transition and turbulence); geophysical and astrophysical fluid mechanics (e.g. convection; stably stratified flows; tidal, precessional and librational motion of planetary interiors and subsurface oceans; accretion disks);

Selected Publications

Publications

Transient growth in streaky unbounded shear flow: A symbiosis of Orr and push-over mechanisms
W Oxley, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1019,
a5
A physics-augmented GraphGPS framework for the reconstruction of 3D Riemann problems from sparse data
R Cassia, R Kerswell
– Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
(2025)
447,
118328
Three-layer stratified exchange flows: hydraulically controlled transition to turbulence
A Atoufi, L Zhu, A Lefauve, JR Taylor, RR Kerswell, SB Dalziel, GA Lawrence, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1016,
a69
Nonlinear optimals and their role in sustaining turbulence in channel flow
DS Klingenberg, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1015,
A50
Nonlinear optimals and their role in sustaining turbulence in channel flow
DS Klingenberg, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
abs/2503.08283,
a50
Linear instability in planar viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow with and without explicit polymer diffusion
M Beneitez, S Mrini, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Non Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
345,
105459
Revisiting two-dimensional viscoelastic Kolmogorov flow: a centre-mode-driven transition - CORRIGENDUM (Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2025) 1007 (A55) DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2025.119)
T Lewy, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1012,
e1
Linear instability in planar viscoelastic Taylor-Couette flow with and without explicit polymer diffusion
M Beneitez, S Mrini, RR Kerswell
(2025)
Revisiting two-dimensional viscoelastic Kolmogorov flow: A centre-mode-driven transition
T Lewy, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1007,
a55
Nonlinear optimals and their role in sustaining turbulence in channel flow.
D Klingenberg, RR Kerswell
(2025)
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Research Group

High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

G1.03

Telephone

01223 766349