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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 fluid mechanics of natural ventilation - Displacement ventilation by buoyancy-driven flows assisted by wind
GR Hunt, PF Linden
– Building and Environment
(1999)
34,
707
Visualization and measurement of internal waves by 'synthetic schlieren'. Part 1. Vertically oscillating cylinder
BR Sutherland, SB Dalziel, GO Hughes, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
390,
93
Saline and particle-driven interfacial intrusions
F de Rooij, PF Linden, SB Dalziel
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
389,
303
Experimental investigations of quasi-two-dimensional vortices in a stratified fluid with source–sink forcing
F de Rooij, PF Linden, SB Dalziel
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
383,
249
Cyclone and anticyclone formation in a rotating stratified fluid over a sloping bottom
C Cenedese, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
381,
199
SMEDIS: Scientific Model Evaluation techniques applied to dense gas Dispersion models in complex situations
NC Daish, RE Britter, PF Linden, SF Jagger, B Carissimo
– INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON MODELING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ACCIDENTAL RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(1999)
345
The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation
PF Linden
– Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
(1999)
31,
201
LSMS: A model for the spreading and vaporization of spills of cryogenic and volatile liquids
PF Linden, JW Rottman, NC Daish, SB Dalziel
– INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON MODELING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ACCIDENTAL RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(1999)
773
Electrical measurement of sediment layer thickness under suspension flows
F de Rooij, SB Dalziel, PF Linden
– Experiments in Fluids
(1999)
26,
470
Internal wave excitation from stratified flow over a thin barrier
BR Sutherland, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1998)
377,
223
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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