Current group members

Name   Research areas

Academic and Teaching Staff

    
Prof. David Dritschel
(Professor, head of group)		  
Dr. Richard Scott
(Reader)		  
Dr. Jean Reinaud
(Reader)
[Google Scholar]		 Coherent structures in rotating-stratified flows;
coherent structures in geophysical turbulence;
geophysical vortex stability; geophysical vortex interactions;
vortex/topography interactions;
vortex/shear flows interactions; applications to oceans dynamics
Dr. David Rees Jones
(Senior Lecturer)		 Geophysical fluid dynamics; phase change;
porous media flows; instabilities and pattern formation;
reactive flow instabilities; magma dynamics;
sea-ice processes; ice–ocean interaction
Dr. Dan Lucas
(Lecturer)		 Turbulence; instabilities; nonlinear dynamics;
exact coherent structures; extreme events; stratified flows;
layer formation; transition to turbulence; control

Dr. Daphné Lemasquerier
(Lecturer, UKRI Future Leader Fellow)
[University page – Google Scholar – arXiv – ResearchGate]

 planetary flows; rotating turbulence; stratified flows;
rotating convection; flow-topography interactions;
geophysical vortices; zonal flows; Rossby waves;
wave-mean flow interactions; gas giant dynamics;
icy moon ocean dynamics 
Dr. Josh Shelton
(Lecturer)
[Google Scholar‬]		 Matched asymptotic expansions; exponential asymptotics;
WKBJ theory; free-boundary problems;
boundary-integral methods; complex analysis and analytic continuation

Research Staff

    
Dr. Hamish Hay
(STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow)

[University page – Google Scholar]

Geophysical flows in planetary interiors; tidal dynamics;
magnetohydrodynamics; rotating convection;
poro-viscoelasticity; wave–wave and wave–mean-flow interactions;
ice–ocean coupling; solid mechanics and rheology;
observational signatures of internal flow in icy satellites;
implications of solid and fluid mechanics on planetary evolution; magma oceans.
Dr. Max Coppin
(Research Fellow)

 

 

PhD Students

    
Ms. Yu Sun

(Visiting PhD, China Scholarship Council)
(supervised by Daphné Lemasquerier and
Ankit Barik, Johns Hopkins University)

 Current project: Rotating convection
subject to combined vertical and lateral forcing
Mr Stefan Faaland
(supervised by Dan Lucas)		    
Ms. Madeleine Heideman
(supervised by Daphné Lemasquerier and 
Alan Cuthbertson, Dundee University)		 Current project: An experimental study of
Rossby wave-mean flow interactions

Mr. Jonny Duffy
(supervised by Richard Scott)

    

 

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