PAUL F. LINDEN
Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Address
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA
E-Mail:
pflinden@ucsd.edu
Office: 178 EBUII
Phone: 1 858 822 2274
Cell: 1 858 342 9159
Fax: 1 858 534 7720
Education
PhD 1972
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge
, U.K.
Actvities
Curriculum vitae
Environmental Engineering Group
Current Research
Architectural fluid dynamics
Gravity-driven flows
Geophysical turbulence
Aquatic propulsion
Publications
Publication list
1973
2. On the structure of salt fingers
1974
4. A note on the transport across a density interface
1976
10. The formation and destruction of fine-structure by double-diffusive processes
11. The spectral signature of salt fingers
1979
18. Transects by submarine of the East Greenland Polar Front
1981
22. The stability of buoyancy-driven coastal currents
1988
38. Modulated mixing and frontogenesis in shallow seas and estuaries
1992
47. Dynamics of tidal mixing fronts in the North Sea
1993
48. Forced angled plumes
1996
56. Mixing in lock-release gravity currents
1997
61. Strongly buoyant plume and 'small-fire' ventilation
62. Low Froude number stable flowws past mountains
1998
63. Gravity currents over porous substrates
64. Internal wave excitation from stratified flow over a thin barrier
66. The bi-modal structure imposed on gravity-driven boundary currents in rotating systems by the effects of bottom topography
1999
68. The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation - displacement ventilation by buoyancy-driven flows reinforced by wind
69. Electrical measurement of sediment layer thickness under suspension flows
70. Cyclone and anticyclone formation in a rotating stratified fluid over a sloping bottom
71. Experimental investigations of quasi-two-dimensional vortices in a stratified fluid with source-sink forcing
72. Saline and particle-driven interfacial intrusions
73. Visualization and measurement of internal waves by 'synthetic schlieren'. Part 1. Vertically oscillating cylinder
74. Turbulent mixing in a stratified fluid
75. The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation
76. Self-similarity and internal structure of turbulence induced by Rayleigh-Taylor instability
2000
77. Internal waves revisited
79. SMEDIS: Scientific model evaluation of dense gas dispersion models
2001
80. Steady-state flows in an enclosure ventilated by buoyancy forces and wind
81. The formation of optimal vortex rings and the efficeincy of propulsion devices
82. Sensitivity of horizonatl flows to forcing geometry
83. Thermal stratification produced by jets and plumes in enclosed spaces
84. Top down ventilation and cooling
2002
85. Stability of a buoyancy-driven current at the shelf break
86. Internal wave excitation by a vertically oscillating elliptical cylinder
87. A study of three-dimensional gravity currents on a uniform slope
88. A laboratory study of the velocity structure in an intrusive gravity current
89. Gravity currents in rotating channels. Part 1. Steady-state theory
90. Eigenmode resonance in a two-layer stratification
91. Buoyancy-driven ventilation between two chambers
92. Simplified modeling of cross-ventilation airflow
93. The influence of a coast on the dynamics of upwelling fronts
2003
94. The drag on a vertically moving grid of bars in a linearly stratified fluid
2004
95. Optimal vortex rings and aquatic propulsion
96. Coalescing axisymmetric turbulent plumes
97. Lock release gravity currents over a thick porous layer
98. Gravity currents produced by lock exchange
99. Use of simulation in the design of a large, naturally ventilated office building
100. Design and testing of a control strategy for a large, naturally ventilated office building
2005
101. A model for an underfloor air distribution system
102. Displacement and mixing ventilation driven by opposing wind and buoyancy
103. The front condition for gravity currents
104. The non-Boussinesq lock exchnage problem. Part 1. Theory and experiments
105. The entrainment due to a turbulent fountain at a density interface
2006
106. Colliding turbulent plumes
107. Interacting turbulent plumes in a naturally ventilated enclosure
108. The front speed of intrusive gravity curents
108. The fluid dynamics of an underfloor air distribution system
110. Axisymmetric gravity currents on a cone
Teaching
MAE 125A Flow and transport in the environment