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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

Sensitivity of horizontal flows to forcing geometry
I Kanda, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2001)
432,
419
The formation of ‘optimal’ vortex rings, and the efficiency of propulsion devices
PF Linden, JS Turner
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2001)
427,
61
Steady-state flows in an enclosure ventilated by buoyancy forces assisted by wind
GR Hunt, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2001)
426,
355
Top down ventilation and cooling
SA Gage, GR Hunt, PF Linden
– JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING RESEARCH
(2001)
18,
286
Modelling the global efficiency of dissolved air flotation.
DM Leppinen, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
(2001)
43,
159
Laboratory modeling of geophysical turbulence
PF Linden, JN Hacker, BM Boubnov, SB Dalziel
– ADVANCES IN TURBULENCE VIII
(2000)
379
SMEDIS: scientific model evaluation of dense gas dispersion models
NC Daish, RE Britter, PF Linden, SF Jagger, B Carissimo
– International Journal of Environment and Pollution
(2000)
14,
39
Internal waves revisited
BR Sutherland, GO Hughes, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
(2000)
31,
209
Turbulent mixing in a stratified fluid
JM Holford, PF Linden
– Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
(1999)
30,
173
Self-similarity and internal structure of turbulence induced by Rayleigh–Taylor instability
SB Dalziel, PF Linden, DL Youngs
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
399,
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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