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Mailing Address:

Joanne M. Holford

University of Cambridge

D.A.M.T.P.

Silver Street

Cambridge, England

CB3 9EW

Phone: (outside U.K. dial 44-1223 ...)

01223 564260 home

01223 337858 office

01223 337840 lab

01223 337918 fax

E-mail:

(jmh25@damtp.cam.ac.uk)

Research Interests:

I am interested in geophysical fluid dynamics, that is the study of fluids that are stratified and/or rotating, such as the oceans and atmosphere. As befits a member of the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, I do experiments. Even if they don't display the behaviour I expect I can be sure that they do exhibit real fluid dynamical phenomena, unlike some numerical simulations! No, seriously, lab experiments are cheap(ish), fully nonlinear and offer endless variety. Recording the flow with a video camera and using image processing techniques to extract information from the images can give quantitative data over the whole flow field. Some example images are given for the two experiments below:

Evolution of a Front

Mixing in Stratified Fluids

OAQ - (Occasionally Asked Questions)

Applying to do a PhD at DAMTP

What use is fluid dynamics?

Alta Vista, a useful search engine

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Joanne M. Holford, last updated on 25 November 1996