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
Effect of thermal diffusion on the stability of strongly tilted mantle plume tails
– Journal of Geophysical Research
(2008)
113,
ARTN B09401
(doi: 10.1029/2007JB005510)
The self-similar rise of a buoyant thermal in very viscous flow
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2008)
606,
295
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112008001730)
Meandering instability of a viscous thread.
– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2008)
77,
066218
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.066218)
Free convection beneath a heated horizontal plate in a rapidly rotating system
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
586,
491
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112007007252)
Buoyancy-driven crack propagation: the limit of large fracture toughness
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
580,
359
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112007005472)
The lateral intrusion of silicic magmas into unconsolidated sediments: The tennant creek porphyry revisited
– Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
(2007)
42,
223
(doi: 10.1080/08120099508728193)
Stability of a dragged viscous thread: Onset of “stitching” in a fluid-mechanical “sewing machine”
– Physics of Fluids
(2006)
18,
124105
(doi: 10.1063/1.2409617)
The fall of a viscous thread onto a moving surface: a 'fluid-mechanical sewing machine'
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
569,
89
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112006002503)
Steady axisymmetric creeping plumes above a planar boundary. Part 2. A distributed source
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
567,
379
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112006002382)
Steady axisymmetric creeping plumes above a planar boundary. Part 1. A point source
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
567,
361
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112006002370)
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