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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 structure of turbulent density interfaces
PF CRAPPER, PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
65,
45
The front speed of intrusive gravity currents
HB Cheong, JJP Kuenen, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
552,
1
Salt fingers in the presence of grid-generated turbulence
PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
49,
611
The interaction of a vortex ring with a sharp density interface: A model for turbulent entrainment
PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
60,
467
The deepening of a mixed layer in a stratified fluid
PF LINDEN
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
71,
385
SMALL-SCALE MIXING IN STABLY STRATIFIED FLUIDS - REPORT ON EUROMECH-51
PF LINDEN, JS TURNER
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
67,
1
Colliding turbulent plumes
NB Kaye, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2006)
550,
85
The entrainment due to a turbulent fountain at a density interface
YJP Lin, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
542,
25
The non-Boussinesq lock-exchange problem. Part 1. Theory and experiments
RJ Lowe, JW Rottman, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
537,
101
The front condition for gravity currents
BM Marino, LP Thomas, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
536,
49
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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