Nonlinear Waves and Geometric Fluid Dynamics Group

Our themes range from fluid stability problems and vortex modelling on both small and large scales to the study of conservation laws and geodesic flows. Fluid dynamics applications of these research themes include predicting weather and climate systems, modelling turbulence, investigating fluid transport problems, modelling complex fluid flows and plasma modelling.

Further geometric mechanics applications are to the stability, bifurcations, dynamics and numerics of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations, to non-Hamiltonian perturbations.

Our group includes academics who are involved in cross-disciplinary research projects such as environmental fluid flows with the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, data assimilation in weather prediction with the National Centre for Earth Observation, modelling open quantum systems with the Quantum Foundation Centre and modelling wave fronts in crime data with the Centre for Criminology.