Chris Pringle

Addresses:


University of Bristol:

School of Earth Sciences
University of Bristol
Wills Memorial Building
Queen's Road
Bristol, BS8 1RJ

E-mail:    chris.pringle(at)bristol.ac.uk

University of Nottingham:

Room B04 L3
Chemical Engineering
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

E-mail:   chris.pringle(at)nottingham.ac.uk
Tel:        (+44) 0115 84 68933
I am currently a PostDoc working at the University of Bristol in the School of Earth Sciences. I am investigating the dynamics of rising bubbles in enclosed spaces in collaboration with Dr Alison Rust and Dr Jeremy Phillips. This research is based upon experimental work I am currently performing in the Chemical Engineering department of the Univeristy of Nottingham with Prof Barry Azzopardi.

Prior to this position I held a PostDoc in the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) at the University of Reading where I worked on developing a integrated model coupling cerebral blood flow with neural activity (working with Dr Etienne Roesch, Prof Doug Saddy and Dr Slawek Nasuto). I did my PhD in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bristol on the problem of transition to turbulence in shear flows. My supervisor was Prof Rich Kerswell, though I also worked with Dr Yohann Duguet and Dr Ashley Willis. I also spent three months visiting Prof Alessandro Bottaro at the Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Genova as a FLUBIO fellow.


Here is a table displaying (almost) all known travelling wave solutions in pipe flow along with videos of each of them.


You can now also see me in action giving a talk on highly symmetric travelling waves at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.  

Thesis:

``Transition in Pipe Flow: Nonlinear Mechanisms'' University of Bristol (2009)

Publications:

Pringle, C.C.T. , Willis, A.P. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Minimal seeds for shear flow turbulence: using nonlinear transient growth to touch the edge of chaos'' submitted to J. Fluid Mech., 2011.

Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Using nonlinear transient growth to construct the minimal seed for shear flow turbulence'' Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 154502, 2010.

Pringle, C.C.T., Duguet, Y. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Highly symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow'' Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 367, 457-472, 2009.

Duguet, Y., Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Relative periodic orbits in transitional pipe flow'' Phys. of Fluids 20, 114102, 2008.

Pringle, C.C.T. & Kerswell, R.R. ``Asymmetric, helical and mirror-symmetric travelling waves in pipe flow'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 074502, 2007.