Professor Robert M. Kerr  --  Publications since 2001 and some prior to 2001

Professor for Computational Fluid Dynamics
Department of Mathematics*, School of Engineering*
and Centre for Scientific Computing*
School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel: +44 024 76 574718  Fax: +44 024 76 418922  Email: Robert.Kerr@warwick.ac.uk
Gibbon, J.D., Bustamante, M.D. and R.M. Kerr, 2008 The three-dimensional Euler equations: singular or non-singular?  Nonlinearity 21, T123-T129.

Bustamante, M.D. and R.M. Kerr, 2008 3D Euler about a 2D symmetry plane.  Proceedings of the IUTAM symposium EE250: "Euler Equations: 250 years on", Physica D 237, 1912-1920. Also: http://arXiv.org/abs/0802.3369

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

Kerr, R.M. 2006: Helicity generation in 3D Euler and turbulence, In Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium, Kyoto, October 2004. pdf

Kerr, R.M. 2006: A new 2D model for 3D Euler. Presentation at CSCAMM:  Challenges of  Incompressible Turbulence at High Re.  paper

Kerr, R.M. 2006: Computational Euler History. www.arxiv.org/physics/0607148.  pdf  with original figures

Gibbon, J.D., D.D. Holm, R.M. Kerr, I Roulstone 2006: Quaternions and particle dynamics in the Euler fluid equations,  Nonlinearity.  19, 1969-1983. Also http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.CD/0512034

Liu, Y., P.G. Tucker and R.M.Kerr 2008: Linear and nonlinear model large-eddy
simulations of a plane jet. Computers and Fluids  37, 439-449 pdf

Kerr, R.M., 2005: Vortex collapse and turbulence, Fluid Dyn. Res. 36, 249-260 pdf

Kerr, R.M., 2005: Velocity and scaling of collapsing Euler vortices, Phys. Fluids 17, 075103.

Kerr, R.M. and P. Tucker, 2005: Nonlinear LES for DES suitable flows AIAA-2005-0668, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit Conference, AIAA, Reno, NV pdf

Holm, D.D. and Kerr, R.M., 2002: Transient vortex events in the initial value problem for turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244501 pdf

Kerr, R.M., 2001: The energy budget in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 244502. pdfpu

Kerr, R.M., Meneguzzi, M., and Gotoh, T., 2001: An inertial range length scale in structure functions.   Phys. Fluids 13, 1985--1994. pdf

Kerr, R.M., 2001: Is there a 2D cascade in 3D convection?   Advances in Wave Interaction and Turbulence, (eds. P. Milewski, L. Smith, E. Tabak, F. Waleffe) Contemporary Mathematics Series published by the American Mathematics Society. pdf

Kerr, R. M. and J.R. Herring 2000: Prandtl number dependence of Nusselt number in DNS.
J. Fluid Mech. 419, 325-344.

Clark, T.L., W.D. Hall, R.M. Kerr, D. Middleton, L. Radke, F.M. Ralph, P.J. Neiman and D. Levinson, 2000: On the origins of aircraft damaging clear-air turbulence during the 9 December 1992 Colorado downslope windstorm: Numerical simulations and comparison with observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1105-1131. pdf

Papers from JFM that are still inaccessible

Kerr, R. M. 1996: Rayleigh Number Scaling in Numerical Convection. J. Fluid Mech., 310, 139-179. ps-proof