Rich Kerswell

School of Mathematics
University Walk
Bristol University 
Bristol BS8 1TW, U.K.
R.R.Kerswell@bris.ac.uk
Tel: +44-117-928-7966
Fax: +44-117-928-7999

Research Interests

Meetings

Papers:

Archive:
Kerswell, R.R. ``The instability of precessing flow'' Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynam. 72, 107-144, 1993.
Kerswell, R.R. ``Tidal excitation of hydromagnetic waves and their damping in the Earth'' J. Fluid Mech. 274, 194-241, 1994.
Wedin, H. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Exact coherent structures in pipe flow: travelling wave solutions'' (colour version) J. Fluid Mech. 508, 333-371, 2004.
Kerswell, R.R. & Tutty, O.R. ``Recurrence of travelling waves in transitional pipe flow'' (colour version) J. Fluid Mech. 584, 69-102, 2007.

Recent:
Willis, A.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Coherent structures in localised and global pipe turbulence'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 124501, 2008.
Lacaze, L., Phillips, J.C. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Planar collapse of a granular column: experiments and discrete element simulations'' Phys. Fluids 20, 063302, 2008.
Willis, A.P., Peixinho, J., Kerswell, R.R. & Mullin, T. "Experimental and theoretical progress in pipe flow transition" Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 366, 2671-2684, 2008.
Duguet, Y., Willis, A.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Transition in pipe flow: the saddle structure on the boundary of turbulence'' J. Fluid Mech. 613, 255-274, 2008.
Duguet, Y., Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Relative periodic orbits in transitional pipe flow'' Phys. Fluids 20, 114102, 2008.
Willis, A.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Turbulent dynamics of pipe flow captured in a reduced model: puff relaminarisation and localised `edge' states'' J. Fluid Mech. 619, 213-233, 2009.
Pringle, C.C.T., Duguet, Y. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Highly symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow'' Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 367, 457-472, 2009.
Lacaze, L. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Axisymmetric granular collapse: a transient 3D flow test of visco-plasticity'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 108305, 2009.
Tang, W., Caulfield, C.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``A prediction for the optimal stratification for turbulent mixing'' J. Fluid Mech. 634, 487-497, 2009.
Duguet, Y., Willis, A.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Slug genesis in cylindrical pipe flow'' J. Fluid Mech. in press.
Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``On constructing the minimal seed of turbulence: nonlinear transient growth'' Phys. Rev. Lett. in press.
Kerswell, R.R. ``Exchange flow of two immiscible fluids and the principle of maximum flux'' submitted (arXiv).

Postdocs:

Ashley Willis, EPSRC-funded 2005-2008 (now Lecturer at Sheffield Univ.)
Yohann Duguet, Marie-Curie Fellow 2006-2008 (now CNRS, LIMSI, Paris)
Laurent Lacaze, Marie-Curie Fellow 2006-2008 (now CNRS, IMFT, Toulouse)
Mark Woodhouse, Renishaw & North Bristol NHS Trust funded 2007-2009 (now working with Prof. Nico Gray at Manchester Univ.)
Gary Chandler, EPSRC-funded 2010-2013

Graduate students:

Darren Mason 1995-1999 (now working at IPL in software development).
Denise Cooper (née Barnes) 1996-2000 (senior software engineer at Radan Computational Ltd in CAD).
Robert Mason 1998-2001 (followed by a postdoc in Earth Science with Prof. S. Sparks and is now working at Serco Assurance in scientific consultancy).
Stephen Plasting 2000-2004 (followed by a postdoc at Scripps Oceanographic Institute, San Diego with Prof. W.R. Young; now Goldman Sachs, New York).
Hakan Wedin 2001-2004 (followed by postdocs at Kyoto University with Prof. M. Nagata and now Genoa University with Prof. A. Bottaro).
Chris Pringle 2005-2009 (currently a postdoc at Reading Univ.)
Helen Sweeney 2008-present