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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

Laboratory observations of internal waves
BR Sutherland, SB Dalziel, GO Hughes, PF Linden
– Proceedings of the 1998 Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 December 1998 (Volume 2)
(1998)
855
Gravity currents over porous substrates
LP Thomas, BM Marino, PF Linden
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(1998)
366,
239
A bi-modal structure imposed on gravity driven boundary currents in rotating systems by effects of the bottom topography
PJ Thomas, PF Linden
– Experiments in Fluids
(1998)
25,
388
On the diffusional circulation in a stratified rotating liquid
BM Boubnov, PF Linden
– Doklady Physics
(1997)
42,
557
Strongly buoyant plume similarity and 'small-fire' ventilation
GG Rooney, PF Linden
– Fire Safety Journal
(1997)
29,
235
On diffusion circulation in stratificating rotating liquid
BM Bubnov, PF Linden
– DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK
(1997)
356,
625
Report on Turbulence and Mixing in Geophysical Flows II
JM Redondo, PF Linden
– Applied Scientific Research (The Hague)
(1997)
59,
89
Low-Froude-number stable flows past mountains
JCR Hunt, Y Feng, PF Linden, MD Greenslade, SD Mobbs
– NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA C-GEOPHYSICS AND SPACE PHYSICS
(1997)
20,
261
The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation
PF Linden
– THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS 1996
(1997)
551
Dynamics of tidal mixing fronts in the North Sea
AE HILL, ID JAMES, PF LINDEN, JP MATTHEWS, D PRANDLE, JH SIMPSON, EM GMITROWICZ, DA SMEED, KMM LWIZA, R DURAZO, AD FOX, DG BOWERS
– Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
(1997)
343,
431
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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