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Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Career

  • 1992-1994: Post-doctoral research fellow for the Japan-Canada Project in Weather and Climate of the Arctic, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
  • 1992-1993: Senior Visitor, Department of Engineering Science, Hokkaido University
  • 1995-1999: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
  • 1999-2001: Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • 2001-2005: Associate Professor (with tenure) of Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  • 2004-2005: Visiting Researcher (Poste Rouge au CNRS) in the Hydrodynamics Laboratory, (LaDyHX) Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS
  • 2005-9: University Lecturer in Fluid Flow, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2009-13: University Senior Lecturer in Fluid Flow, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2013-15: Reader in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2015-: Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics, BP Institute and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2020-: Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2005-: Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Research

  • stratified flows
  • turbulent mixing processes
  • Generalised flow instability and transition
  • turbulent plumes
  • building ventilation

Publications

Streamwise dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional steady turbulent jets
JR Landel, CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
1
Variational identification of minimal seeds to trigger transition in plane Couette flow
SME Rabin, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
(2011)
The structure of low-Froude-number lee waves over an isolated obstacle
SB Dalziel, MD Patterson, CP Caulfield, S Le Brun
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2011)
689,
3
Estimating Geostrophic Shear from Seismic Images of Oceanic Structure
KL Sheen, N White, CP Caulfield, RW Hobbs
– Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
(2011)
28,
1149
Laboratory experiments on two coalescing axisymmetric turbulent plumes in a rotating fluid
H Yamamoto, C Cenedese, CP Caulfield
– Physics of Fluids
(2011)
23,
056601
Time-dependent ventilation flows driven by opposing wind and buoyancy
IA Coomaraswamy, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2011)
672,
33
Time-dependent ventilation flows driven by opposing wind and buoyancy
IA Coomaraswamy, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2011)
672,
33
Growth and instability of a laminar plume in a strongly stratified environment
M Lombardi, CP Caulfield, C Cossu, AI Pesci, RE Goldstein
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2011)
671,
184
Growth and instability of a laminar plume in a strongly stratified environment
M LOMBARDI, CP CAULFIELD, C COSSU, AI PESCI, RE GOLDSTEIN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2011)
1
The Relationship between flux coefficient and entrainment ratio in density currents
M Wells, C Cenedese, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Physical Oceanography
(2010)
40,
2713
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Research Group

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744