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Career

  • 2017- date:  DAMTP,  Cambridge University
  • 1996-2017:  Mathematics,  Bristol University
  • 1992-1996:  Mathematics,  Newcastle University
  • 1992          :  PhD,  MIT

Research

General fluid mechanics: the Navier-Stokes equations (nonlinear dynamics, transition and turbulence); geophysical and astrophysical fluid mechanics (e.g. convection; stably stratified flows; tidal, precessional and librational motion of planetary interiors and subsurface oceans; accretion disks);

Selected Publications

Publications

Critical Behavior in the Relaminarization of Localized Turbulence in Pipe Flow
AP Willis, RR Kerswell
– Physical Review Letters
(2007)
98,
014501
Recurrence of Travelling Waves in Transitional Pipe Flow
RR Kerswell, OR Tutty
– Springer Proceedings in Physics
(2007)
117,
82
Elliptical Instabilities Of Stratified, Hydromagnetic Waves
RR Kerswell
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
71,
105
Infinite-Prandtl-number convection. Part 2. A singular limit of upper bound theory
GR Ierley, RR Kerswell, SC Plasting
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
560,
159
Enhanced mobility of granular mixtures of fine and coarse particles
JC Phillips, AJ Hogg, RR Kerswell, NH Thomas
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(2006)
246,
466
Oscillatory internal shear layers in rotating and precessing flows
R Hollerbach, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
298,
327
On the linear instability of elliptic pipe flow
RR Kerswell, A Davey
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
316,
307
Upper bounds for turbulent Couette flow incorporating the poloidal power constraint
RR Kerswell, AM Soward
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
328,
161
On the viscous decay rates of inertial waves in a rotating circular cylinder
RR Kerswell, CF Barenghi
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
285,
203
Upper bounds on the energy dissipation in turbulent precession
RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
321,
335
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Research Group

High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

G1.03

Telephone

01223 766349