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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

The nonlinear development of three-dimensional disturbances at hyperbolic stagnation points: A model of the braid region in mixing layers
CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Physics of Fluids
(2000)
12,
1032
Turbulent gravitational convection from a point source in a non-uniformly stratified environment
CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1998)
360,
229
Secondary instability and three-dimensionalization in a laboratory accelerating shear layer with varying density differences
CP Caulfield, S Yoshida, WR Peltier
– Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
(1996)
23,
125
Three dimensionalization of the stratified mixing layer
WR Peltier, CP Caulfield
– TENTH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC WAVES AND STABILITY
(1995)
86
An experimental investigation of the instability of a shear flow with multilayered density stratification
CP CAULFIELD, WR PELTIER, S YOSHIDA, M OHTANI
– Physics of Fluids
(1995)
7,
3028
Three dimensionalization of the stratified mixing layer
CP CAULFIELD, WR PELTIER
– Physics of Fluids
(1994)
6,
3803
Internal Gravity Wave Generation and Hydrodynamic Instability
BR SUTHERLAND, CP CAULFIELD, WR PELTIER
– Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
(1994)
51,
3261
Three dimensionalization of the stratified mixing layer
CP Caulfield, WR Peltier
– Physics of Fluids
(1994)
6,
3803
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Research Group

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744