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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

Molecular Mixing in Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
PF LINDEN, JM REDONDO, DL YOUNGS
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
265,
97
Source–sink turbulence in a rotating stratified fluid
PF LINDEN, BM BOUBNOV, SB DALZIEL
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
298,
81
The effect of background rotation on fluid motions: a report on Euromech 245
EJ HOPFINGER, PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
211,
417
Free-surface effects on the spin-up of fluid in a rotating cylinder
J ODONNELL, PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
232,
439
A laboratory simulation of mixing across tidal fronts
PJ Thomas, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
309,
321
Natural ventilation of an enclosure containing two buoyancy sources
P Cooper, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
311,
153
Frontogenesis in a fluid with horizontal density gradients
JE SIMPSON, PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
202,
1
Emptying filling boxes: The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation
PF LINDEN, GF LANESERFF, DA SMEED
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
212,
309
Multiple sources of buoyancy in a naturally ventilated enclosure
PF Linden, P Cooper
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
311,
177
The fluid dynamics of an underfloor air distribution system
QA Liu, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
554,
323
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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