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
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2023)
955,
a1
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2022.963)
Recurrent flow patterns as a basis for turbulence: predicting statistics
from structures
(2022)
Finite-amplitude elastic waves in viscoelastic channel flow from large to zero Reynolds number
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
951,
a3
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2022.831)
Polymeric diffusive instability leading to elastic turbulence in plane
Couette flow
(2022)
Wall shear stress and pressure patterns in aortic stenosis patients with
and without aortic dilation captured by high-performance image-based
computational fluid dynamics
(2022)
First coherent structure in elasto-inertial turbulence
– Physical Review Fluids
(2022)
7,
073301
Heat transport in Rayleigh–Bénard convection with linear marginality
– Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
(2022)
380,
20210039
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0039)
Weakly nonlinear analysis of the viscoelastic instability in channel flow for finite and vanishing Reynolds numbers
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
940,
a11
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2022.222)
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