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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 influence of the coast on the dynamics of upwelling fronts
P Bouruet-Aubertot, PF Linden
– Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
(2002)
36,
153
Buoyancy-driven ventilation between two chambers
YJP Lin, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
463,
293
Eigenmode resonance in a two-layer stratification
I Kanda, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
460,
223
Gravity currents in rotating channels. Part 1. Steady-state theory
JN Hacker, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
457,
295
A laboratory study of the velocity structure in an intrusive gravity current
RJ Lowe, PF Linden, JW Rottman
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
456,
33
A study of three-dimensional gravity currents on a uniform slope
AN Ross, PF Linden, SB Dalziel
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
453,
239
Stability of a buoyancy-driven coastal current at the shelf break
C Cenedese, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2002)
452,
97
Internal wave excitation by a vertically oscillating elliptical cylinder
BR Sutherland, PF Linden
– Physics of Fluids
(2002)
14,
721
A new unified investigation into vapour cloud fires
NC Daish, PF Linden, V Vieillard, D Nedelka, TA Roberts, CJ Butler
– IGT International Liquefied Natural Gas Conference Proceedings
(2001)
2,
Thermal stratification produced by plumes and jets in enclosed spaces
GR Hunt, P Cooper, PF Linden
– Building and Environment
(2001)
36,
871
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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