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
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.159, 359-378
- 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
Formation and disruption of concentrated vortices in turbulence
– Fluid Mechanics and its Applications
(1998)
46,
327
(doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-5118-4_80)
On the effect of a central vortex on a stretched magnetic flux tube
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1997)
339,
121
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112097005466)
A similarity solution for viscous source flow on a vertical plane
– European Journal of Applied Mathematics
(1997)
8,
37
(doi: 10.1017/s0956792596002896)
Direct Lyapunov method in nonlinear stability of complex flows.
– Nonlinear Analysis
(1997)
30,
563
On general transformations and variational principles for the magnetohydrodynamics of ideal fluids .3. Stability criteria for axisymmetric flows
– Journal of Plasma Physics
(1997)
57,
89
(doi: 10.1017/S0022377896005272)
The energy and helicity of knotted magnetic flux tubes
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A
(1997)
451,
609
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1995.0146)
Helicity and the Călugăreanu invariant
– Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
(1997)
439,
411
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1992.0159)
Structure and stability of solutions of the Euler equations: a lagrangian approach
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences
(1997)
333,
321
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.1990.0164)
Corner singularities in three-dimensional Stokes flow
– IUTAM Symposium on Non-Linear Singularities in Deformation and Flow, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium
(1997)
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