Robert Kerr Professor of Mathematics Joint appointment with Engineering Office: Computer Science 319 Phone: +44 (0)24 7657 4840 Email: Robert dot Kerr at warwick dot ac dot uk

Research Interests: Turbulence, nonlinear PDEs, atmospheric modelling

Teaching Responsibilities 2011/12:
Term 1: MA4H7 Atmospheric Dynamics

Most relevant recent publications:

M.D.Bustamante, R.M.Kerr. 3D Euler about a 2D Symmetry Plane. Physica D, 237, 1912 (2008) (2008), 9 pages.

D.D.Holm, R.M Kerr. Helicity in the formation of turbulence. Phys. Fluids 19, 025101 (2007).

J.D.Gibbon, D.D.Holm, R.M.Kerr, I Roulstone. Quarternions and particle dynamics in the Euler fluid equations. Nonlinearity,19,(2006),1969 -1983

R.M.Kerr. Velocity and scaling of collapsing Euler vortices. Physics of Fluids.17(7),(2005), 11 pages

R.M.Kerr. Energy budget in Rayleigh-Benard convection.Phys Review Letters,87,(2001)

Further publications

Research grants:

Leverhulme, Anti-paralell Vortex in three dimensional (01/04/2006 - 31/03/2009)

ONR, Environmental Turbulence Workshop (02/03/2006 - 17/03/2007)

EPSRC Generating High Resolution DNS for LES Comparisons (1.10.2005 - 30.9.2009)

For more information and further publications see Robert Kerr's homepage or his Expertise Profile