Professor Rich Kerswell | High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

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Career

2017- date: DAMTP, Cambridge University
1996-2017: Mathematics, Bristol University
1992-1996: Mathematics, Newcastle University
1992 : PhD, MIT

Research

General fluid mechanics: the Navier-Stokes equations (nonlinear dynamics, transition and turbulence); geophysical and astrophysical fluid mechanics (e.g. convection; stably stratified flows; tidal, precessional and librational motion of planetary interiors and subsurface oceans; accretion disks);

Selected Publications

see homepage (www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/rrk26)

Publications

Polymer diffusive instability leading to elastic turbulence in plane Couette flow

M Beneitez, J Page, RR Kerswell

– Physical Review Fluids

(2023)

8,

l101901

(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.8.l101901)

Physics-informed neural network to augment experimental data: an application to stratified flows

L Zhu, X Jiang, A Lefauve, RR Kerswell, PF Linden

(2023)

(link to publication)

Exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence identified with convolutional autoencoders

J Page, J Holey, MP Brenner, RR Kerswell

(2023)

(link to publication)

Long-wave instabilities of sloping stratified exchange flows

L Zhu, A Atoufi, A Lefauve, RR Kerswell, PF Linden

(2023)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.10056)

Inertial enhancement of the polymer diffusive instability

MMP Couchman, M Beneitez, J Page, RR Kerswell

(2023)

(link to publication)

Multistability of elasto-inertial two-dimensional channel flow

M Beneitez, J Page, Y Dubief, RR Kerswell

(2023)

(link to publication)

Stratified inclined duct: direct numerical simulations

L Zhu, A Atoufi, A Lefauve, JR Taylor, RR Kerswell, SB Dalziel, GA Lawrence, PF Linden

– Journal of Fluid Mechanics

(2023)

969,

a20

(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.502)

Learning Stochastic Dynamics with Probabilistic Neural Networks to study Zonal Jets

I Shokar, P Haynes, R Kerswell

(2023)

(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9121)

Learning Stochastic Dynamics with Probabilistic Neural Networks to study Zonal Jets

I Shokar, P Haynes, R Kerswell

(2023)

(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9121)

Stratified inclined duct: two-layer hydraulics and instabilities

A Atoufi, L Zhu, A Lefauve, JR Taylor, RR Kerswell, SB Dalziel, GA Lawrence, PF Linden

(2023)

(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.13035)