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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

A laboratory study of explosive volcanic eruptions
AW WOODS, CCP CAULFIELD
– Journal of Geophysical Research
(2012)
97,
6699
Streamwise dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional steady turbulent jets
JR Landel, CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
711,
212
Variational framework for flow optimization using seminorm constraints
DPG Foures, CP Caulfield, PJ Schmid
– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2012)
86,
026306
Variational framework for flow optimization using seminorm constraints.
DPG Foures, CP Caulfield, PJ Schmid
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2012)
86,
026306
Seismic imaging of a large horizontal vortex at abyssal depths beneath the Sub-Antarctic Front
KL Sheen, NJ White, CP Caulfield, RW Hobbs
– Nature Geoscience
(2012)
5,
542
Turbulent buoyant convection from a maintained source of buoyancy in a narrow vertical tank
DDJA Van Sommeren, CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
701,
278
Meandering due to large eddies and the statistically self-similar dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional jets
JR Landel, CP Caulfield, AW Woods
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
692,
347
Dynamics of vorticity defects in stratified shear flow
NJ Balmforth, A Roy, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
694,
292
Entrainment and mixing dynamics of surface-stress-driven stratified flow in a cylinder
A Shravat, C Cenedese, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
691,
498
Triggering turbulence efficiently in plane Couette flow
SME Rabin, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2012)
712,
244
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Research Groups

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

Room

B1.36

Telephone

01223 337744