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Dr Matthew Turner

Lecturer

Qualifications: MMath (UEA), PhD (UEA)

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 6183
Room no: 01 AA 04

Further information

Biography

I obtained an MMath degree at the UEA in 2002 before completing my PhD in Fluid Dynamics in 2006, also at the UEA, under the supervision of Dr Paul Hammerton. After this, I spent 3 years at the University of Exeter working with Prof. Andrew Gilbert, before moving to the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories at the University of Brighton, where I worked with Prof. Sergei Sazhin.

 

I started my current position here at Surrey in May 2011.

 

For more information, visit my personal web page.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the field of fluid dynamics, in particular:

  • Boundary layer receptivity
  • Vortex dynamics
  • Jet stability and breakup
  • General flow stability
  • Sloshing fluids

For more information on my research interests, see the research page of my personal web site.

Publications

For more information on my publications, including draft copies of papers, see the publications page of my personal web page.

Journal articles

  • Alemi Ardakani H, Bridges TJ, Turner MR. (2012) 'Resonance in a model for Cooker's sloshing experiment'. European Journal of Mechanics B - Fluids,
    [ Status: Accepted ]
  • Turner MR, Sazhin SS, Healey JJ, Crua C, Martynov SB. (2012) 'A breakup model for transient Diesel fuel sprays'. Elsevier Fuel: The Science and Technology of Fuel and Energy, 97, pp. 288-305.
    doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2012.01.076
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/527105/
  • Turner MR, Healey JJ, Sazhin SS, Piazzesi R. (2012) 'Wave packet analysis and break--up length calculations for accelerating planar liquid jets.'. Institute of Physics Fluid Dyn Res, 44 Article number 015503
    doi: 10.1088/0169-5983/44/1/015503
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/527106/
  • Turner MR. (2012) 'Tollmien-Schlichting wave amplitudes on a semi-infinite flat plate and a parabolic body: comparison of a parabolized stability equation method and direct numerical simulations'. Oxford University Press Quarterly Journal of Mechanics & Applied Maths, 65 (2), pp. 183-210.
    doi: 10.1093/qjmam/hbr027
  • Turner MR, Healey JJ, Sazhin SS, Piazzesi R. (2011) 'Stability analysis and breakup length calculations for steady planar liquid jets'. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS J FLUID MECH, 668, pp. 384-411.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112010004787
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2899/
  • Turner MR, Berger MA. (2011) 'A study of mixing in coherent vortices using braiding factors'. Institute of Physics Fluid Dynamics Research, 43 (3) Article number 035501
    doi: 10.1088/0169-5983/43/3/035501
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2918/
  • Turner MR, Thuburn J, Gilbert AD. (2009) 'The influence of periodic islands in the flow on a scalar tracer in the presence of a steady source'. American Institute of Physics Physics of Fluids, 21 (6)
    doi: 10.1063/1.3159615
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2919/
  • Turner MR, Bassom AP, Gilbert AD. (2009) 'Diffusion and the formation of vorticity staircases in randomly strained two-dimensional vortices'. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS J FLUID MECH, 638, pp. 49-72.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112009990875
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2917/
  • Turner MR, Gilbert AD. (2009) 'Spreading of two-dimensional axisymmetric vortices exposed to a rotating strain field'. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 630, pp. 155-177.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112009006855
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2916/
  • Turner MR, Hammerton PW. (2009) 'Analysis of the unstable Tollmien-Schlichting mode on bodies with a rounded leading edge using the parabolized stability equation'. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS J FLUID MECH, 623, pp. 167-185.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112008005260
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2927/
  • Turner MR, Gilbert AD, Thuburn J. (2008) 'Effective diffusion of scalar fields in a chaotic flow'. AMER INST PHYSICS PHYS FLUIDS, 20 (10) Article number 107103
    doi: 10.1063/1.2998461
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2914/
  • Turner MR, Gilbert AD. (2008) 'Thresholds for the formation of satellites in two-dimensional vortices'. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS J FLUID MECH, 614, pp. 381-405.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112008003558
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2913/
  • Turner MR, Gilbert AD, Bassom AP. (2008) 'Neutral modes of a two-dimensional vortex and their link to persistent cat's eyes'. AMER INST PHYSICS PHYS FLUIDS, 20 (2) Article number 027101
    doi: 10.1063/1.2838596
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2912/
  • Turner MR, Gilbert AD. (2007) 'Linear and nonlinear decay of cat's eyes in two-dimensional vortices, and the link to Landau poles'. Cambridge University Press Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 593, pp. 255-279.
    doi: 10.1017/S0022112007008944
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2911/
  • Turner MR. (2007) 'Far downstream analysis for the Blasius boundary-layer stability problem'. QJMAM, 60 (3), pp. 255-274.
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2910/
  • Turner MR, Hammerton PW. (2006) 'Asymptotic receptivity analysis and the Parabolized Stability Equation : a combined approach to boundary layer transition'. J. Fluid Mech, 562, pp. 355-382.
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2909/

Departmental Duties

Schools liaison officer

Internal seminar organiser