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
Vortex Dynamics: The Legacy of Helmholtz and Kelvin
– IUTAM Bookseries
(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)
A self-consistent treatment of simple dynamo systems
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
14,
147
(doi: 10.1080/03091927908244536)
Report on workshop on small-diffusivity dynamos and dynamical systems
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
52,
263
(doi: 10.1080/03091929008219507)
Large and small scale motions in Kinematic dynamos
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
32,
135
(doi: 10.1080/03091928508208782)
The Role of the Helicity Spectrum Function in Turbulent Dynamo Theory
– Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(2006)
21,
265
(doi: 10.1080/03091928208209016)
Evolution of toroidal magnetic eddies in an ideal fluid
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
558,
253
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112006000048)
On the behaviour of a suspension of conducting particles subjected to a time-periodic magnetic field
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
218,
509
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112090001094)
Stretched vortices – the sinews of turbulence; large-Reynolds-number asymptotics
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
259,
241
(doi: 10.1017/S002211209400011X)
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