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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

Turbulent dynamics of pipe flow captured in a reduced model: puff relaminarization and localized 'edge' states
AP Willis, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2008)
619,
213
Highly symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow
CCT Pringle, Y Duguet, RR Kerswell
– Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
(2008)
367,
457
Relative periodic orbits in transitional pipe flow
Y Duguet, CCT Pringle, RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2008)
20,
114102
Transition in pipe flow: the saddle structure on the boundary of turbulence
Y Duguet, AP Willis, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2008)
613,
255
Planar collapse of a granular column: Experiments and discrete element simulations
L Lacaze, JC Phillips, RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2008)
20,
063302
Experimental and theoretical progress in pipe flow transition
AP Willis, J Peixinho, RR Kerswell, T Mullin
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2008)
366,
2671
Coherent structures in localized and global pipe turbulence
AP Willis, RR Kerswell
– Phys Rev Lett
(2008)
100,
124501
Asymmetric, helical, and mirror-symmetric traveling waves in pipe flow
CCT Pringle, RR Kerswell
– Physical Review Letters
(2007)
99,
074502
Recurrence of travelling waves in transitional pipe flow
RR Kerswell, OR Tutty
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
584,
69
Critical behavior in the relaminarization of localized turbulence in pipe flow.
AP Willis, RR Kerswell
– Phys Rev Lett
(2007)
98,
014501
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Research Group

High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

G1.03

Telephone

01223 766349