Career
- 2006-present Professor of Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1997-present Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2001-2006 Reader in Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1997-2001 University Lecturer, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, Cambridge
- 1992-1997 Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 1987-1993 Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1988-1990 Postdoctoral Reseach Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Research
John Lister has a wide range of interests both in fundamental fluid mechanics and in the application of fluid mechanics to understand processes in geophysics. Some indication of this range is provided by the following topics:
Fluid driven crack propagation and dykes, Infinite-Prandtl number convection and mantle dynamics, Capillary pinch-off and film rupture, Similarity solutions and finite-time singularities, Viscous gravity currents and lava flows, Particle-laden flows, turbidity currents and sedimentation, The thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of the Earth's core, Low Reynolds number flow, Flows with solidification or temperature-dependent viscosity.
Selected Publications
Publications
Thin-sheet flow between coalescing bubbles
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2015)
773,
r3
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2015.253)
Liquid Ropes: A Geometrical Model for Thin Viscous Jet Instabilities
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
174501
Plethora of transitions during breakup of liquid filaments.
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2015)
112,
4582
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1418541112)
Early-time free-surface flow driven by a deforming boundary
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2015)
767,
811
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2015.74)
Quantification and propagation of errors when converting vertebrate biomineral oxygen isotope data to temperature for palaeoclimate reconstruction
– Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
(2014)
412,
99
(doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.003)
High Rayleigh number convection in a porous medium containing a thin low-permeability layer
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
756,
844
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.478)
High Rayleigh number convection in a three-dimensional porous medium
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
748,
879
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.216)
Creeping axisymmetric plumes with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
745,
R2
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.128)
A fluid-mechanical model of elastocapillary coalescence
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
745,
621
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.102)
The initial transient and approach to self-similarity of a very viscous buoyant thermal
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
744,
352
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.75)
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