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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

Coherent structures in interacting vortex rings
J Deng, J Xue, X Mao, CP Caulfield
– Physical Review Fluids
(2017)
2,
022701
Optimal perturbation growth in axisymmetric intrusions
BR Sutherland, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
811,
r4
Nonlinear effects in buoyancy-driven variable-density turbulence
P Rao, CP Caulfield, JD Gibbon
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
810,
362
Detrainment of plumes from vertically distributed sources.
R Bonnebaigt, CP Caulfield, PF Linden
– Environ Fluid Mech (Dordr)
(2016)
18,
3
A new method for isolating turbulent states in transitional stratified plane Couette flow
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
808,
r1
Robust identification of dynamically distinct regions in stratified turbulence
GD Portwood, SM De Bruyn Kops, JR Taylor, H Salehipour, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
807,
r2
Turbulent mixing due to the Holmboe wave instability at high Reynolds number
H Salehipour, CP Caulfield, WR Peltier
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
803,
591
Instabilities of interacting vortex rings generated by an oscillating disk.
J Deng, L Teng, CP Caulfield, X Mao
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
94,
033107
Seismic Imaging of Rapid Onset of Stratified Turbulence in the South Atlantic Ocean*
M Falder, NJ White, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Physical Oceanography
(2016)
46,
1023
Dependence on aspect ratio of symmetry breaking for oscillating foils: implications for flapping flight
J Deng, CP Caulfield
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2015)
787,
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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