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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2014 - Director of Research, DAMTP
  • 2014 - Emeritus Fellow, Downing College
  • 2010 - 2014: G.I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, DAMTP
  • 2010 - 2014 : Professorial Fellow, Downing College
  • 2010 - : Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
  • 2009 - : Visiting Professor, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath
  • 2009 - 2010: Director, Sustainability Solutions Institute, UC San Diego
  • 2007 - 2009: Director, Environment and Sustainability Initiative, UC San Diego
  • 1998 - 2010: Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
  • 1991 - 1998: Reader in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP
  • 1977 - 1998: Fellow, Downing College
  • 1976 - 1998: Director, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, DAMTP
  • 1976 - 1991: Assistant Director of Research, DAMTP
  • 1972 - 1976: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, DAMTP

Research

The focus of my research is environmental fluid mechanics. Our group conducts experimental and theoretical research on problems associated with our environment and the processes that affect and are impacted by climate change. We study and develop models of the fluid flow in low-energy buildings, gravity-driven flows in stratified and rotating fluids, internal waves and mixing in stratified fluids

Selected recent Publications

  • Burridge, H. C. , Partridge, J. L. & Linden, P.F. 2016 The fluxes and behaviour of plumes inferred from measurements of coherent structures within images of the bulk flow. Atmosphere-Ocean iFirst article 1-15.

    doi10.1080/07055900.2016.1175337

  • Carrilho da Graca G. & Linden, P. F. 2016 Ten questions about natural ventilation of non-domestic buildings. Building and Environment, 107, 263-273. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.08.007

  • Daish, N. C., Carrilho da Graca G., Linden, P. F. & Banks, D. 2016 Impact of aperture separation on wind driven single-sided natural ventilation. Building and Environment, 108, 122-134.

    doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.08.015

  • Ramage, M. H. , Burridge, H. C., Busse-Wicher, M., Fereday, G., Reynolds, T., Shah, D., Wu, G., Yu, L., Fleming, P., Densley-Tingley, D., Allwood, J., Dupree, P., Linden, P. F. & Sherman, O. 2016 The wood from trees: the use of timber in construction. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., 68, 333-359.

  • Hughes, G.O. & Linden, P. F. 2016 Mixing eciency in run-down gravity currents. J. Fluid Mech., 809, 691{704. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.696

  • Burridge, H. C. & Linden, P.F. 2016 Questioning the Mpemba effect: hot water does not cool more quickly than cold. Scientic Reports, 6, 37665 EP -, doi:10.1038/srep37665

     

 

Publications

New insights into experimental stratified flows obtained through physics-informed neural networks
L Zhu, X Jiang, A Lefauve, RR Kerswell, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
981,
r1
Geometry of stratified turbulent mixing: Local alignment of the density gradient with rotation, shear and viscous dissipation
X Jiang, A Atoufi, L Zhu, A Lefauve, J Taylor, S Dalziel, P Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
977,
r5
Stratified inclined duct: two-layer hydraulics and instabilities
A Atoufi, L Zhu, A Lefauve, JR Taylor, RR Kerswell, SB Dalziel, GA Lawrence, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
977,
a25
Stratified inclined duct: direct numerical simulations
L Zhu, A Atoufi, A Lefauve, JR Taylor, RR Kerswell, SB Dalziel, GA Lawrence, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
969,
a20
Uniformly distributed floor sources of buoyancy can give rise to significant spatial inhomogeneities within rooms
CVM Vouriot, TD Higton, PF Linden, GO Hughes, M Van Reeuwijk, HC Burridge
– Flow
(2023)
3,
E18
Professor John Stewart Turner 11 January 1930-3 July 2022
P Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
958,
e1
The evolution of coherent vortical structures in increasingly turbulent stratified shear layers
X Jiang, A Lefauve, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
947,
a30
The circular hydraulic jump; the influence of downstream flow on the jump radius
RK Bhagat, PF Linden
– Physics of Fluids
(2022)
34,
072111
Modeling disease transmission in a train carriage using a simple 1D‐model
RJB de Kreij, MS Davies Wykes, H Woodward, PF Linden
– Indoor Air
(2022)
32,
e13066
Bubble curtains used as barriers across horizontal density stratifications
A Bacot, D Frank, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
941,
a1
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics

Room

H1.18

Telephone

01223 337890