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
- see homepage (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rrk26)
Publications
Threshold transient growth as a criterion for turbulent mean profiles
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
996,
a32
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.671)
Exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence identified with convolutional autoencoders
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
991,
a10
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.552)
Linear Stability of Stratified, Rotating, Viscous Plane Couette-Poiseuille Flow
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
991,
a16
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.549)
Asymptotics of the centre-mode instability in viscoelastic channel flow: with and without inertia
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
991,
a13
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.500)
Transition route to elastic and elasto-inertial turbulence in polymer
channel flows
(2024)
Stochastic Latent Transformer: Efficient Modeling of Stochastically Forced Zonal Jets
– Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
(2024)
16,
e2023MS004177
(doi: 10.1029/2023ms004177)
Recurrent flow patterns as a basis for turbulence: predicting statistics from structures
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2024)
121,
e2320007121
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.2320007121)
Long-wave instabilities of sloping stratified exchange flows
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
983,
a12
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2024.96)
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