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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

Publications

Sensitivity and downstream influence of the impinging leading-edge vortex instability in a bileaflet mechanical heart valve
H Zolfaghari, RR Kerswell, D Obrist, PJ Schmid
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2022)
936,
a41
Finite-amplitude elastic waves in viscoelastic channel flow from large to zero Reynolds number
G Buza, M Beneitez, J Page, RR Kerswell
(2022)
Non-equivalence of quasilinear dynamical systems and their statistical closures
GV Nivarti, RR Kerswell, JB Marston, SM Tobias
(2022)
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr-Sommerfeld stability analysis
VK Markeviciute, RR Kerswell
(2022)
Data-Driven Identification of Turbulent Oceanic Mixing From Observational Microstructure Data
MMP Couchman, B Wynne-Cattanach, MH Alford, CCP Caulfield, RR Kerswell, JA MacKinnon, G Voet
– Geophysical Research Letters
(2021)
48,
ARTN e2021GL094978
Optimal perturbation growth on a breaking internal gravity wave
JP Parker, CJ Howland, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
925,
A16
Degeneracy of turbulent states in two-dimensional channel flow
VK Markeviciute, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
917,
a57
Revealing the state space of turbulence using machine learning
J Page, MP Brenner, RR Kerswell
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
034402
The effects of Prandtl number on the nonlinear dynamcis of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in two dimensions
JP Parker, CP Caulfield, RR Kerswell
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
915,
a37
Exact traveling wave solutions in viscoelastic channel flow
R Kerswell, J Page, Y Dubief
– Physical Review Letters
(2020)
125,
154501
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Research Group

High-Reynolds-Number Fluid Flow

Room

G1.03

Telephone

01223 766349