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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor H.Keith Moffatt

 

Career

  • 2002-present:  Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics
  • 2002-2003: Blaise Pascal Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
  • 2000-2004: President, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • 1961-1976 and 1980-present: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 1980-2002: Professor of Mathematical Physics (1978)
  • 1996-2001: Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  • 1992-1999: Professeur en temps partiel, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1983-1991: Head of DAMTP
  • 1977-1980: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University
  • 1966-1983: Editor, J.Fluid Mech.
  • 1961-1976: Assistant Lecturer, then (from 1964) Lecturer, DAMTP

     

Research

Keith is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His  research interests are Dynamo Theory, Vortex Dynamics, Turbulence, and all aspects of Fluid Dynamics 

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

  • see my website for complete list of publications up to 2014
  • 1964  Viscous and resistive eddies near a sharp corner. J.Fluid Mech. 18, 1-18.
  • 1969 The degree of knottedness of tangled vortex lines, J.Fluid Mech. 35, 117-129
  • 1978 Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids (CUP).
  • 1985 Magnetostatic equilibria and analogous Euler flows of arbitrarily complex topology, J.Fluid Mech.159, 359-378
  • 2010 Goldstein, R.E., Moffatt, H.K., Pesci, A.I. & Ricca, R.L. Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.107,  21979-21984.
  • 2010 Environmental Hazards: Fluid Dynamics of Extreme Events (Eds: H.K.Moffatt & E.Shuckburgh)
  • 2012 Homogeneous turbulence: an introductory review. J. of Turbulence, 13:1, N39
  • 2013 Bajer, K. & Moffatt, H.K. Magnetic relaxation, current sheets, and structure formation in an extremely tenuous fluid medium. Astrophys. J. 779, 169-183.
  • 2014 Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111, 3663-3670.
  • 2014 Kimura, Y. & Moffatt, H.K. Reconnection of skewed vortices. J.Fluid Mech. 751, 329-345.
  • 2014 The fluid dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell.  In: James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work. Eds: R. Flood, M. McCartney & A.Whitaker (Oxford Univ.Press).

A full list of publications can be found here

Publications

DEDICATED TO BATCHELOR,G.K. ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY - PREFACE
HK MOFFATT
– JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
(1990)
212,
R9
(link to publication)
Stretch, twist and fold
HK MOFFATT
– Nature
(1989)
341,
285
(doi: 10.1038/341285a0)
Stretch, twist and fold
HK Moffatt
– Nature
(1989)
341,
285
(doi: 10.1038/341285a0)
SIMPLE TOPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TURBULENT VORTICITY DYNAMICS.
HK Moffatt
(1984)
223
HIGH FREQUENCY EXCITATION OF LIQUID METAL SYSTEMS.
HK Moffatt
(1984)
180
The effect of wall conductance on heat diffusion in duct flow
EM Lungu, HK Moffatt
– Journal of Engineering Mathematics
(1982)
16,
121
(doi: 10.1007/BF00042550)
Some developments in the theory of turbulence
HK Moffatt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1981)
106,
27
(doi: 10.1017/S002211208100150X)
The asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the Navier-Stokesequations near sharp corners.
HK Moffatt
(1980)
Topographic Coupling at the Core-Mantle Interface
HK Moffatt
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(1977)
9,
279
(doi: 10.1080/03091927708242332)
BEHAVIOUR OF A VISCOUS FILM ON THE OUTER SURFACE OF A ROTATING CYLINDER.
HK Moffatt
– J Mec
(1977)
16,
651
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Research Group

Astrophysics

Email

H.K.Moffatt@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Personal homepage

https://sites.google.com/site/hkeithmoffatt

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