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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2014 - Director of Research, DAMTP
  • 2014 - Emeritus Fellow, Downing College
  • 2010 - 2014: G.I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, DAMTP
  • 2010 - 2014 : Professorial Fellow, Downing College
  • 2010 - : Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
  • 2009 - : Visiting Professor, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath
  • 2009 - 2010: Director, Sustainability Solutions Institute, UC San Diego
  • 2007 - 2009: Director, Environment and Sustainability Initiative, UC San Diego
  • 1998 - 2010: Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
  • 1991 - 1998: Reader in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP
  • 1977 - 1998: Fellow, Downing College
  • 1976 - 1998: Director, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, DAMTP
  • 1976 - 1991: Assistant Director of Research, DAMTP
  • 1972 - 1976: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, DAMTP

Research

The focus of my research is environmental fluid mechanics. Our group conducts experimental and theoretical research on problems associated with our environment and the processes that affect and are impacted by climate change. We study and develop models of the fluid flow in low-energy buildings, gravity-driven flows in stratified and rotating fluids, internal waves and mixing in stratified fluids

Selected recent Publications

  • Burridge, H. C. , Partridge, J. L. & Linden, P.F. 2016 The fluxes and behaviour of plumes inferred from measurements of coherent structures within images of the bulk flow. Atmosphere-Ocean iFirst article 1-15.

    doi10.1080/07055900.2016.1175337

  • Carrilho da Graca G. & Linden, P. F. 2016 Ten questions about natural ventilation of non-domestic buildings. Building and Environment, 107, 263-273. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.08.007

  • Daish, N. C., Carrilho da Graca G., Linden, P. F. & Banks, D. 2016 Impact of aperture separation on wind driven single-sided natural ventilation. Building and Environment, 108, 122-134.

    doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.08.015

  • Ramage, M. H. , Burridge, H. C., Busse-Wicher, M., Fereday, G., Reynolds, T., Shah, D., Wu, G., Yu, L., Fleming, P., Densley-Tingley, D., Allwood, J., Dupree, P., Linden, P. F. & Sherman, O. 2016 The wood from trees: the use of timber in construction. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev., 68, 333-359.

  • Hughes, G.O. & Linden, P. F. 2016 Mixing eciency in run-down gravity currents. J. Fluid Mech., 809, 691{704. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.696

  • Burridge, H. C. & Linden, P.F. 2016 Questioning the Mpemba effect: hot water does not cool more quickly than cold. Scientic Reports, 6, 37665 EP -, doi:10.1038/srep37665

     

 

Publications

The dynamics of steady, partial-depth intrusive gravity currents
MR Flynn, T Boubarne, PF Linden
– Atmosphere - Ocean
(2008)
46,
421
Buoyancy-driven flow between two rooms coupled by two openings at different levels
LP Thomas, BM Marino, R Tovar, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
594,
425
The front speed of intrusions into a continuously stratified medium
D Bolster, A Hang, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
594,
369
Contaminants in ventilated filling boxes
DT Bolster, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
591,
97
Hybrid ventilation in two interconnected rooms with a buoyancy source
R Tovar, PF Linden, LP Thomas
– Solar Energy
(2007)
81,
683
Rotating gravity currents: small-scale and large-scale laboratory experiments and a geostrophic model
PJ Thomas, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
578,
35
Lock-exchange flows in sloping channels
VK Birman, BA Battandier, E Meiburg, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
577,
53
Local implications for self-similar turbulent plume models
MM Scase, CP Caulfield, PF Linden, SB Dalziel
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2007)
575,
257
Contaminants in ventilated filling boxes
DT Bolster, PF Linden
– JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
(2007)
591,
97
The sea breeze and gravity‐current frontogenesis
DD REIBLE, JE SIMPSON, PF LINDEN
– Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
(2006)
119,
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics

Room

H1.18

Telephone

01223 337890