Professor Robert Kerr
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Robert KerrProfessor of Mathematics Office: Computer Science 319 |
Teaching Responsibilities 2012/13:
Term 2: MA3D1 Fluid Dynamics
Research Interests: Turbulence, nonlinear PDEs, atmospheric modelling
Most relevant recent publications:
D. Donzis, J.D Gibbon, A. Gupta, R.M. Kerr, R. Pandit, D. Vincenzi: 2013 Vorticity moments in four numerical simulations of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. arXiv:1302.1768v1
R.M Kerr: 2012 Incompressible hydrodynamic turbulence from a chain reaction of vortex reconnection events. arXiv:1212.3829v2
R. M. Kerr: 2012 Bounds on a singular attractor in Euler using vorticity moments. arXiv:1212.1106v1.
R.M. Kerr: 2012 Dissipation and enstrophy statistics in turbulence: Are the simulations and mathematics converging?
J. Fluid Mech. 700, 1-4.
R.M. Kerr, M. Oliver: 2011 The Ever-Elusive Blowup in the Mathematical Description of Fluids. In An Invitation to Mathematics: From Competitions to Research, D. Schleicher and M. Lackmann (eds.), pp. 137--164, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Proceedings of the 50th International Mathematics Olympiad, Bremen, Germany, August 2009.
R.M. Kerr 2011: Vortex stretching as a mechanism for quantum kinetic energy decay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224501.
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 2006: Quarternions and particle dynamics in the Euler fluid equations. Nonlinearity 19, 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)
Publications as .pdfpublications.pdf
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
