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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

Buoyancy flux bounds for surface-driven flow
CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
536,
367
Effect of wind on highly stratified flow
K Yokoo, S Yoshida, CP Caulfield, PF Linden, I Ito
– Wit Transactions on the Built Environment
(2005)
78,
25
Bounds on dissipation in stress-driven flow
W Tang, CP Caulfield, WR Young
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
510,
333
Reynolds number dependence of an upper bound for the long-time-averaged buoyancy flux in plane stratified Couette flow
CP Caulfield, W Tang, SC Plasting
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
498,
315
Mixing efficiency in stratified shear flows
WR Peltier, CP Caulfield
– Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
(2003)
35,
135
Blocked natural ventilation: the effect of a source mass flux
AW Woods, CP Caulfield, JC Phillips
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2003)
495,
119
The mixing in a room by a localized finite-mass-flux source of buoyancy
CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
471,
33
Nonlinear evolution of a layered stratified shear flow
V Lee, CP Caulfield
– Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
(2001)
34,
103
Maximal mixing rate in turbulent stably stratified Couette flow
CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2001)
13,
894
The anatomy of the mixing transition in homogeneous and stratified free shear layers
CP Caulfield, WR Peltier
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2000)
413,
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Research Group

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744