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
Singularities in Fluid Dynamics and their Resolution
– Lecture Notes in Mathematics
(2009)
1973,
157
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00837-5_5)
Instability of magnetic modons and analogous Euler flows
– Journal of Plasma Physics
(2009)
56,
677
(doi: 10.1017/s0022377800019528)
Reconnexion of vortex and magnetic tubes subject to an imposed strain: An approach by perturbation expansion
– Fluid Dynamics Research
(2009)
36,
333
Singularities in Fluid Dynamics and their Resolution
– LECTURES ON TOPOLOGICAL FLUID MECHANICS
(2009)
1973,
157
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-692-00837-5)
Magnetostrophic Turbulence and the Geodynamo
– Solid Mechanics and its Applications
(2008)
4,
339
(doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6472-2_51)
Kinematic variational principle for motion of vortex rings
– Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
(2008)
237,
2210
(doi: 10.1016/j.physd.2008.02.003)
Celt reversals: a prototype of chiral dynamics
– Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A. Mathematics
(2008)
138,
361
(doi: 10.1017/s0308210506000679)
Vortex dynamics: The legacy of Helmholtz and Kelvin
– Solid Mechanics and its Applications
(2008)
6,
1
(doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6744-0_1)
The birth and adolescence of MHD turbulence
– Fluid Mechanics and its Applications
(2007)
80,
213
(doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4833-3_12)
Spinning flight: Dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras and skipping stones
– Nature
(2006)
444,
820
(doi: 10.1038/444820a)
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