Items by Patterson, Michael

2012

Patterson, M., Dalziel, S., Caulfield, C. and Le Brun, S., 2012. The effects of a shear flow on lee waves. Submitted to: 65th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2012-11-18 - 2012-11-20, San Diego.

Li, L., Patterson, M. D., Zhang, K. and Kerswell, R., 2012. Spin-up and spin-down in a half cone: A pathological situation or not? Physics of Fluids, 24 (11), 116601.

Robinson, F., Patterson, M. and Sherwood, S., 2012. Idealized sea-breeze density currents. In: 20th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 2012-07-09 - 2012-07-13, Boston, Massachusetts.

Robinson, F. J., Patterson, M. D. and Sherwood, S. C., 2012. Forthcoming. A numerical modeling study of the propagation of idealized sea-breeze density currents. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Robinson, F., Sherwood, S. and Patterson, M., 2012. Use of ensembles of idealised CRM runs to explore convective dynamics and interactions with sea-breeze and gust fronts. In: European Geosciences Union, 2012-04-22 - 2012-04-27, Vienna.

2011

Dalziel, S. B., Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Le Brun, S., 2011. The structure of low Froude number lee waves over an isolated obstacle. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 689, pp. 3-31.

Dalziel, S. B., Patterson, M., Caulfield, C. P. and Le Brun, S., 2011. Lee waves: new understanding of a classical problem. In: 7th International Symposium on Stratified Flows, 2011-08-22 - 2011-08-26, Rome.

Dalziel, S. B., Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Le Brun, S., 2011. Lee waves: new understanding of a classical problem. In: Cenedese, A., Espa, S. and Purini, R., eds. Proceedings of VII International Symposium on Stratified Flows. , p. 1162.

2010

Dalziel, S. B., Patterson, M., Caulfield, C. P. and Le Brun, S., 2010. Lee waves: new understanding of a classical problem. In: 2nd Norway-Scotland Internal Waves Symposium, 2010-11-01 - 2010-11-02, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Patterson, M. D., Li, L., Zhang, K. and Kerswell, R. R., 2010. Spin-up and spin-down in a half cone. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2010-11-21 - 2010-11-23, Long Beach, California.

Patterson, M. D. and Wettlaufer, J. S., 2010. Scanned multi-light-emitting-diode illumination for volumetric particle image velocimetry. Review of Scientific Instruments, 81 (9), 096101.

Zhong, J. Q., Patterson, M. D. and Wettlaufer, J. S., 2010. Streaks to rings to vortex grids: generic patterns in transient convective spin up of an evaporating fluid. Physical Review Letters, 105 (4), 044504.

2009

Patterson, M. and Aspden, A., 2009. Gravity currents in a stratified ambient fluid. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2009-11-22 - 2009-11-24, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Zhong, J.-Q., Patterson, M. and Wettlaufer, J., 2009. Rotating spin-up in three dimensions. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2009-11-22 - 2009-11-24, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2008

Patterson, M., Caulfield, C. and Dalziel, S., 2008. Experimental measurements of lee wave interaction with wind shear, wakes, and boundary layers. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2008-11-23 - 2008-11-25, San Antonio, Texas.

Dalziel, S. B., Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Coomaraswamy, I. A., 2008. Mixing efficiency in high-aspect-ratio Rayleigh-Taylor experiments. Physics of Fluids, 20, 065106.

2007

Patterson, M. D. and Wettlaufer, J. S., 2007. Ice growth and oceanic buoyancy forcing. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2007-04-15 - 2007-04-20, Vienna.

Dell, R. W., Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Dalziel, S. B., 2007. Internal gravity waves generation by isolated topography in the laboratory: Lee waves and lee mountains. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2007-04-01, Vienna.

Patterson, M. D., 2007. Three dimensional vortex dynamics in rotating fluids. In: American Physical Society, Divison of Fluid Dynamics, 2007-11-01, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2006

Dell, R. W., Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Dalziel, S. B., 2006. Internal gravity wave generation by isolated topography in the laboratory: Limitations of linear theory. In: 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2006-11-19 - 2006-11-21, Tampa Bay, Florida.

Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P., McElwaine, J. N. and Dalziel, S. B., 2006. Time-dependent mixing in stratified Kelvin-Helmholtz billows: Experimental observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L15608.

Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Dalziel, S. B., 2006. Mixing by merging Kelvin-Helmholtz billows. In: Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, EFMC 6, 2006-06-01, Stockholm.

Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P., McElwaine, J. N. and Dalziel, S. B., 2006. Mixing and merging of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2007-04-15 - 2007-04-20, Vienna.

Patterson, M. D., Simpson, J. E., Dalziel, S. B. and van Heijst, G. J. F., 2006. Vortical motion in the head of an axisymmetric gravity current. Physics of Fluids, 18, 046601.

Patterson, M. D., Caulfield, C. P. and Dalziel, S. B., 2006. Buoyant mixing of unstably stratified fluids in a vertical square tube. In: Ivery, G., ed. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Stratified Flows. , pp. 575-580.

2005

Caulfield, C. P. and Patterson, M. D., 2005. Stratified mixing: Quantitative comparison of numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. In: Fundamentals of Fluid Flows, 2005-12-14 - 2005-12-15, BP Institute, Cambridge.

Patterson, M. D. and Dalziel, S. B., 2005. Gravity currents in a stratified ambient fluid. In: The International Conference on Fluxes and Structures in Fluids, 2005-06-20 - 2005-06-23, Moscow.

Patterson, M. D., Simpson, J. E., Dalziel, S. B. and N Nikiforakis, N., 2005. Numerical modelling of two-dimensional and axisymmetric gravity currents. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 47 (10-11), pp. 1221-1227.

Caulfield, C. P., Patterson, M. D., McElwaine, J. N. and Dalziel, S. B., 2005. Mixing efficiency in lock release gravity currents. In: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting, 2005-11-20 - 2005-11-22, Chicago, IL.

2004

Patterson, M. D., Simpson, J. E., Dalziel, S. B. and van Heijst, G. J. F., 2004. The development of an axisymmetric gravity current. In: XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2004-04-01, Warsaw.

McElwaine, J. N. and Patterson, M. D., 2004. Lobe and cleft formation at the head of a gravity current. In: XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2004-08-01, Warsaw.

Patterson, M. D., Simpson, J. E., Dalziel, S. B. and Nikiforakis, N., 2004. Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and axisymmetric gravity currents. In: ICFD Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, 2004-01-01, University of Oxford.

2003

Peregrine, D. H., Patterson, M. D. and Guoqing, H., 2003. Spurious generation of Vorticity in the surf zone. In: Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equations, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2003-01-01, Cambridge, U.K..

2001

Patterson, M. D., 2001. Shallow Water Modelling of Nearshore Processes. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Bristol.

Bokhove, O., Patterson, M. D. and Peregrine, D. H., 2001. Breaking shallow water wave simulations in the surf and swash zone. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ASCE, 2001-01-01, Sydney.

Patterson, M. D., Peregrine, D. H. and Loveless, J., 2001. Water wave interaction with coarse sediment. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ASCE, 2001-01-01, Sydney.

1997

Patterson, M. D. and Losada, I. J., 1997. Comportamiento de estrusturas sumergidas bajo la accion del oleaje. In: IV Jornadas de Ingenieria de Puertos, 1997-01-01, Cadiz.

Losada, I. J., Patterson, M. D. and Losada, M. A., 1997. Harmonic generation past a submerged porous step. Coastal Engineering, 31 (1-4), pp. 281-304.