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Dr Duncan Robin Hewitt

Career

  • 2023 - present:  Associate Professor in Fluid Dynamics and Sustainability, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2023 - present: Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
  • 2019-2023: Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University College London
  • 2015-2019: Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
  • 2014-2015: Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • 2010-2014: Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, University of Cambridge.

 

I am an applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. I am interested in using mathematics to model and understand physical processes in the world around us, including in environmental, industrial and biological contexts. Some particular research interests include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, clogging and jamming in complex flows, the mechanics of deformable media, flow through porous media, granular and suspension mechanics, and heat and mass transfer.

Please see my personal website for more details:  www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/drh39/

Publications

High-Rayleigh-number convection in porous–fluid layers
T Le Reun, DR Hewitt
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
920,
a35
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2021.449)
On two-phase modeling of dewatering pulp suspensions
DT Paterson, TS Eaves, DR Hewitt, NJ Balmforth, DM Martinez
– AIChE Journal
(2021)
67,
ARTN e17277
(doi: 10.1002/aic.17277)
Time-dependent soft-bedded sliding laws
K Warburton, D Hewitt, J Neufeld
(2021)
(doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8766)
Tidal Grounding-Line Migration Modulated by Subglacial Hydrology
KLP Warburton, DR Hewitt, JA Neufeld
– Geophysical Research Letters
(2020)
47,
ARTN e2020GL089088
(doi: 10.1029/2020gl089088)
Internally Heated Porous Convection: An Idealized Model for Enceladus' Hydrothermal Activity
T Le Reun, DR Hewitt
– Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
(2020)
125,
ARTN e2020JE006451
(doi: 10.1029/2020JE006451)
Vigorous convection in porous media
DR Hewitt
– Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
(2020)
476,
20200111
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0111)
Vigorous convection in porous media
DR Hewitt
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2020)
476,
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0111)
Dynamic integration of enteric neural stem cells in ex vivo organotypic colon cultures
G Navoly, CJ McCann
(2020)
2020.06.12.147652
(doi: 10.1101/2020.06.12.147652)
Obstructed viscoplastic flow in a Hele-Shaw cell
M Daneshi, J Mackenzie, NJ Balmforth, DM Martinez, DR Hewitt
– Physical Review Fluids
(2020)
5,
013301
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.013301)
Dewatering saturated, networked suspensions with a screw press
TS Eaves, DT Paterson, DR Hewitt, NJ Balmforth, DM Martinez
– Journal of Engineering Mathematics
(2019)
120,
1
(doi: 10.1007/s10665-019-10029-3)
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Research Group

Solid Mechanics

Email

D.R.Hewitt@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

H1.07

Telephone

01223 764067

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/drh39/

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