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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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

Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: Connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities
D Lucas, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
832,
409
Spatial Variation of Diapycnal Diffusivity Estimated From Seismic Imaging of Internal Wave Field, Gulf of Mexico
A Dickinson, NJ White, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans
(2017)
122,
9827
Adjoint-based optimization of displacement ventilation flow
S Nabi, P Grover, CP Caulfield
– Building and Environment
(2017)
124,
342
Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence
D Lucas, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
832,
r1
Role of overturns in optimal mixing in stratified mixing layers
CP Caulfield, A Mashayek
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
826,
522
Nonlinear evolution of linear optimal perturbations of strongly stratified shear layers
JR Taylor, CP Caulfield, AK Kaminski
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
825,
213
Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation
CP Caulfield, A Mashayek, H Salehipour, D Bouffard, R Ferrari, W Peltier, W Smyth, M Nikurashin
– Geophysical Research Letters
(2017)
44,
6296
Diapycnal mixing in layered stratified plane Couette flow quantified in a tracer-based coordinate
Q Zhou, CP Caulfield, PF Linden, JR Taylor
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
823,
198
Self-similar mixing in stratified plane Couette flow for varying Prandtl number
Q Zhou, JR Taylor, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
820,
86
Multiple instability of layered stratifed plane Couette flow
TS Eaves, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
813,
250
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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