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
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
Dynamics of a rolling robot.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2017)
114,
12858
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1713685114)
A tent model of vortex reconnection under Biot–Savart evolution
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
834,
r1
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.769)
The degree of knottedness of tangled vortex lines – CORRIGENDUM
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2017)
830,
821
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.667)
Helicity-invariant even in a viscous fluid.
– Science (New York, N.Y.)
(2017)
357,
448
(doi: 10.1126/science.aao1428)
The early years of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Style and international impact
– Comptes Rendus Mécanique
(2017)
345,
498
(doi: 10.1016/j.crme.2017.05.007)
Soap-film dynamics and topological transitions under continuous deformation
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
060503
Helicity and celestial magnetism
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2016)
472,
20160183
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2016.0183)
Magnetic relaxation and the Taylor conjecture
– Journal of Plasma Physics
(2015)
81,
905810608
(doi: 10.1017/s0022377815001269)
Flashpoint
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2015)
452,
902
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1255)
Instability of a Mobius Strip Minimal Surface and a Link with Systolic Geometry
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
127801
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