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Dr Duncan Robin Hewitt

Career

  • 2023 - present:  Associate Professor in Fluid Dynamics and Sustainability, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2023 - present: Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
  • 2019-2023: Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University College London
  • 2015-2019: Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
  • 2014-2015: Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • 2010-2014: Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge.

 

I am an applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. I am interested in using mathematics to model and understand physical processes in the world around us, including in environmental, industrial and biological contexts. Some particular research interests include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, clogging and jamming in complex flows, the mechanics of deformable media, flow through porous media, granular and suspension mechanics, and heat and mass transfer.

Please see my personal website for more details:  www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/drh39/

Publications

Stokes layers in complex fluids
DR Hewitt, NJ Balmforth
– Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
(2024)
334,
105328
(doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2024.105328)
Swimming in viscoplastic fluids
DR Hewitt
– Rheologica Acta
(2024)
63,
673
(doi: 10.1007/s00397-024-01466-8)
Optimal face-to-face coupling for fast self-folding kirigami
M Pecnik Bambic, NAM Araújo, BJ Walker, DR Hewitt, QX Pei, R Ni, G Volpe
– Soft Matter
(2024)
20,
1114
(doi: 10.1039/d3sm01474f)
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds
KLP Warburton, DR Hewitt, CR Meyer, JA Neufeld
– Journal of Glaciology
(2023)
1
(doi: 10.1017/jog.2023.47)
Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines
KA Hogan, KLP Warburton, AGC Graham, JA Neufeld, DR Hewitt, JA Dowdeswell, RD Larter
– The Cryosphere
(2023)
17,
2645
(doi: 10.5194/tc-17-2645-2023)
Obstructed free-surface viscoplastic flow on an inclined plane
EM Hinton, DR Hewitt, AJ Hogg
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
964,
a35
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.389)
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds
K Warburton, D Hewitt, C Meyer, J Neufeld
(2023)
(doi: 10.31223/x5q668)
Shear dilation of subglacial till results in time-dependent sliding laws
KLP Warburton, DR Hewitt, JA Neufeld
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2023)
479,
20220536
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2022.0536)
Supplementary material to "Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines"
KA Hogan, KLP Warburton, AGC Graham, JA Neufeld, DR Hewitt, JA Dowdeswell, RD Larter
(2022)
(doi: 10.5194/tc-2022-222-supplement)
Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines
KA Hogan, KLP Warburton, AGC Graham, JA Neufeld, DR Hewitt, JA Dowdeswell, RD Larter
(2022)
(doi: 10.5194/tc-2022-222)
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Research Groups

Fluid Mechanics
Solid Mechanics
Theoretical Geophysics

Email

D.R.Hewitt@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

H1.07

Telephone

01223 764067

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/drh39/

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge