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
Compressible particle-driven gravity currents
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2001)
445,
305
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112001005705)
Analytical modelling of viscous diapirism through a strongly non-Newtonian overburden subject to horizontal forces
– Journal of Geodynamics
(2001)
31,
447
Symmetry and self-similarity in rupture and pinchoff: A geometric bifurcation
– European Journal of Applied Mathematics
(2001)
12,
209
(doi: 10.1017/S0956792501004375)
Penetration of columnar convection into an outer stably stratified layer in rapidly rotating spherical fluid shells
– Earth and Planetary Science Letters
(2001)
187,
357
Rupture of thin viscous films by van der Waals forces: Evolution and self-similarity
– Physics of Fluids
(2001)
13,
1130
(doi: 10.1063/1.1359749)
Coalescence of liquid drops
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
401,
293
(doi: 10.1017/S002211209900662X)
Similarity Solutions for Capillary Pinch-Off in Fluids of Differing Viscosity
– Physical Review Letters
(1999)
83,
1151
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1151)
Particle-driven gravity currents down planar slopes
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
390,
75
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112099004917)
The effect of solidification on fluid–driven fracture, with application to bladed dykes
– Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(1999)
455,
2389
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0409)
Flow localization in fissure eruptions
– Bulletin of Volcanology
(1999)
60,
432
(doi: 10.1007/s004450050243)
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