skip to content

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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

Modelling dispersion in stratified turbulent flows as a resetting process
N Petropoulos, SM de Bruyn Kops, C-CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2025)
1002,
a48
  Prandtl Number Effects on Extreme Mixing Events in Forced Stratified Turbulence
C-CP Caulfield, N Petropoulos, MMP Couchman, S de Bruyn Kops, A Mashayek
(2024)
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
1000,
e1
On the interaction between a rising bubble and a settling particle
AM Abdal, L Kahouadji, S Shin, J Chergui, D Juric, CP Caulfield, OK Matar
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
999,
a18
Regimes of stratified turbulence at low Prandtl number
K Shah, GP Chini, CCP Caulfield, P Garaud
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
998,
a60
Bouncing behaviour of a particle settling through a density transition layer
S Wang, P Kandel, J Deng, CP Caulfield, SB Dalziel
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
997,
a49
Numerical validation of scaling laws for stratified turbulence
P Garaud, GP Chini, L Cope, K Shah, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
991,
r1
Evidence for layered anisotropic stratified turbulence in a freely evolving horizontal shear flow
SF Lewin, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
983,
a20
Prandtl number effects on extreme mixing events in forced stratified turbulence
N Petropoulos, MMP Couchman, A Mashayek, SM de Bruyn Kops, CCP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
983,
r1
A data-driven method for modelling dissipation rates in stratified turbulence
SF Lewin, SM De Bruyn Kops, CCP Caulfield, GD Portwood
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
977,
a37
  • 1 of 17
  • >

Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744