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
The structure of the vortices in freely decaying two-dimensional turbulence
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
313,
209
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112096002182)
On a class of steady confined Stokes flows with chaotic streamlines
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
212,
337
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112090001999)
Turbulence and Stochastic Processes: Kolmogorov's Ideas 50 Years On
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
275,
406
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112094212417)
On general transformations and variational principles for the magnetohydrodynamics of ideal fluids .2. Stability criteria for two-dimensional flows
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
329,
187
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112096008890)
ON GENERAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND VARIATIONAL-PRINCIPLES FOR THE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS OF IDEAL FLUIDS .1. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
283,
125
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112095002254)
Free-surface cusps associated with flow at low Reynolds number
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
241,
1
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112092001927)
Stretched Vortices - the Sinews of Turbulence; Large-Reynolds-Number Asymptotics
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
266,
371
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112094001047)
Deflection of a stream of liquid metal by means of an alternating magnetic field
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
194,
309
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112088003003)
MAGNETOSTATIC EQUILIBRIA AND ANALOGOUS EULER FLOWS OF ARBITRARILY COMPLEX TOPOLOGY .2. STABILITY CONSIDERATIONS
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
166,
359
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112086000198)
On the existence of localized rotational disturbances which propagate without change of structure in an inviscid fluid
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
173,
289
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112086001180)
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