
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
Instability of a gravity current within a soap film
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
753,
R1
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.395)
Reconnection of skewed vortices
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
751,
329
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.233)
Boundary singularities produced by the motion of soap films
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2014)
111,
8339
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1406385111)
Note on the triad interactions of homogeneous turbulence
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
741,
r3
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2013.637)
Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2014)
111,
3663
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400277111)
Magnetic relaxation, current sheets, and structure formation in an extremely tenuous fluid medium
– The Astrophysical Journal
(2013)
779,
169
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637x/779/2/169)
Relaxation to steady vortical flows- and knots in the quark-gluon plasma
– Mechanics Down Under - Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM 2008
(2013)
155
(doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-5968-8_10)
Foreword: Turbulence colloquium marseille 2011
– Journal of Turbulence
(2013)
14,
39
(doi: 10.1080/14685248.2013.851836)
Giffen Goods and their Reflexion Property
– The Manchester School
(2013)
82,
129
(doi: 10.1111/manc.12003)
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