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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

A model for an under floor air distribution system
YJP Lin, PF Linden
– Energy and Buildings
(2005)
37,
399
Displacement and mixing ventilation driven by opposing wind and buoyancy
GR Hunt, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2005)
527,
27
Effect of wind on highly stratified flow
K Yokoo, S Yoshida, CP Caulfield, PF Linden, I Ito
– WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
(2005)
78,
25
Gravity currents produced by lock exchange
JO Shin, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
521,
1
Lock-release inertial gravity currents over a thick porous layer
LP Thomas, BM Marino, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
503,
299
'Optimal' vortex rings and aquatic propulsion mechanisms
PF Linden, JS Turner
– Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
(2004)
271,
647
Coalescing axisymmetric turbulent plumes
NB Kaye, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2004)
502,
41
Simplified Modeling of Cross-Ventilation Airflow
GC Da Graça, PF Linden
– ASHRAE Winter Meetings CD, Technical and Symposium Papers
(2003)
2003,
67
The drag on a vertically moving grid of bars in a linearly stratified fluid
RC Higginson, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Experiments in Fluids
(2003)
34,
678
Simplified modeling of cross-ventilation airflow
G Carrilho da Graça, PF Linden
– ASHRAE Transactions
(2003)
109 PART 1,
65
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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