Profile
Dr Paul Burns
Research Fellow
Telephone: 01392 725280
Extension: (Streatham) 5280
Research interests
Fluid dynamics, Oceanography and Dynamical systems. More specifically, understanding the dynamics of geophysical fluids with a focus on Earth’s oceans. My main focus is on applying theoretical and numerical modelling techniques to investigate problems concerning:
- The role of nonlinear resonance in the creation and maintenance of layers in stably-stratified flows
- The interplay of nonlinear resonance and small-scale mixing
- Effects on the slow dynamics from interactions of nonlinear and linear resonance
- Dynamical systems perspective of long-lived density layers and relationships to nonlinear resonance theory
Numerical models include Dedalus (a spectral-methods model), Firedrake-Gusto (a finite-element methods model), WRF (a finite difference model) and MITgcm (a finite volume model).
Some research highlights include the following:
- Researcher Co-I for current project
- Lecturer for the MSc module Waves, Instabilities and Turbulence in 2020 (excellent student feedback received)
- Co-supervised 5 student MSc projects
- Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Committee member for Insitute of Physics group Nonlinear and Complex Physics
- Session Chair at two international conferences