Chris Pringle

Department of Mathematics University of Bristol University Walk Bristol, BS8 1TW United Kingdom E-mail:     chris.pringle(at)bristol.ac.uk Tel:          (+44) 0117 3311662   'Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists' - Jose Mourinho

I'm a graduate student working on the problem of transition to turbulence in pipe flow. My supervisor is Prof Rich Kerswell, though I have also been working with Yohann Duguet and Ashley Willis. The majority of my published work is based upon travelling waves, which are exact non-trivial solutions of the full Navier-Stokes equations in the pipe problem. Here is a table displaying all such known solutions, with links to animations of all these waves. I am presently visiting the Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Genova where I am working with Prof Alessandro Bottaro. I shall be working here until July with a FLUBIO fellowship.

You can now also see me in action giving a talk on highly symmetric travelling waves at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.  

Publications:

Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Asymmetric, helical and mirror-symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 074502, 2007.

Pringle, C.C.T., Duguet, Y. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Highly symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow'' Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 367, 457-472, 2009. (doi: 10.1095/rsta.2008.0236)

Duguet, Y., Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Relative periodic orbits in transitional pipe flow'' Phys. of Fluids 20, 114102, 2008.

Tea count: 356
Coffee count: 534
Justin Lee Collins count: 7