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
- see homepage (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rrk26)
Publications
Tidal instability as the source for Io's magnetic signature
– Geophysical Research Letters
(1998)
25,
603
(doi: 10.1029/98GL00237)
Unification of variational principles for turbulent shear flows: the background method of Doering-Constantin and the mean-fluctuation formulation of Howard-Busse
– Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
(1998)
121,
175
Variational bounds on shear-driven turbulence and turbulent Boussinesq convection
– Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
(1997)
100,
355
Effect of nonlinear interactions on p-mode frequencies and line widths
– The Astrophysical Journal
(1994)
427,
483
(doi: 10.1086/174159)
The instability of precessing flow
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(1993)
72,
107
(doi: 10.1080/03091929308203609)
Equilibrium of a magnetic flux tube in a compressible flow
– Astrophysical Journal
(1992)
385,
746
(doi: 10.1086/170981)
Linear instability in planar viscoelastic Taylor-Couette flow with and without explicit polymer diffusion
– Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
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