sandbox/wmostert/README

    My name is Wouter Mostert, I am an associate professor at Oxford in the Department of Engineering Science. Previously, I studied at the University of Queensland in Australia (under Vincent Wheatley) where I got my BEng (Mechanical & Aerospace, 2012) and PhD (2015) degrees; I did postdoctoral research at Caltech (with Dale Pullin) and Princeton (with Luc Deike), and spent some time as an assistant professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

    My interests are in fluid mechanics, namely in air-sea interaction concerning mass, momentum and energy primarily due to wave breaking, along with the associated dynamics of bubbles and droplets, which play a large role in these kinds of problems. Waves in shallow water environments are also of interest, especially the dynamics and energetics of breaking solitary waves, and more broadly around the effects of ocean wave systems on sediment and pollutant transport, along with better understanding wave loadings on civil infrastructure.

    Other interests include problems in compressible gases and continuum plasma models, especially dynamics and geometrical stability of material interfaces and of shock waves in such systems, and potential analogues in water wave systems.

    Some problems

    *A shoaling and breaking solitary wave

    *A shoaling and breaking solitary wave in the presence of wind (due especially to hard work by Kentaro Hanson - see also Falk Feddersen’s sandbox )

    *Deformation of a bubble in a turbulent environment

    *Breaking Stokes wave (from Stephane Popinet’s sandbox)

    *Droplet bag-breakup in a cross-flow (from Kaitao Tang’s sandbox and, crucially, using the manifold death algorithm from Leonardo Chirco’s sandbox)

    *Transverse collision of two liquid rims (from Kaitao Tang’s sandbox)

    *Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of an interface with surface tension (from Kaitao Tang’s sandbox)

    Published work using Basilisk

    [feddersen2024]

    Falk Feddersen, Kentaro Hanson, Wouter Mostert, and Adam Fincham. Modelling wind-induced changes to overturning wave shape. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1000:A48, 2024. [ DOI ]
    [tang2024]

    K. Tang, T.A.A. Adcock, and W. Mostert. Fragmentation of colliding liquid rims. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 987:A18, 2024. [ DOI ]
    [tang2023]

    K. Tang, T.A.A. Adcock, and W. Mostert. Bag film breakup of droplets in uniform airflows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 970:A9, September 2023. [ DOI ]
    [erinin2023]

    MA Erinin, C Liu, X Liu, W Mostert, L Deike, and JH Duncan. The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 972:R5, 2023.
    [boswell2023]

    Hunter Boswell, Guirong Yan, and Wouter Mostert. Characterizing energy dissipation of shallow-water wave breaking in a storm surge. Physical Review Fluids, 8(5):054801, 2023.
    [mostert2022]

    Wouter Mostert, Stéphane Popinet, and Luc Deike. High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942(A27), April 2022. [ DOI | http | .pdf ]
    [riviere2022]

    Aliénor Rivière, Daniel J. Ruth, Wouter Mostert, Luc Deike, and Stéphane Perrard. Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 7:083602, Aug 2022. [ DOI | http ]
    [tang2021]

    Kaitao Tang, Wouter Mostert, Daniel Fuster, and Luc Deike. Effects of surface tension on the richtmyer-meshkov instability in fully compressible and inviscid fluids. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 6:113901, Nov 2021. [ DOI | http ]
    [perrard2021]

    Stéphane Perrard, Aliénor Rivière, Wouter Mostert, and Luc Deike. Bubble deformation by a turbulent flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920:A15, 2021. [ DOI ]
    [riviere2021]

    Aliénor Rivière, Wouter Mostert, Stéphane Perrard, and Luc Deike. Sub-hinze scale bubble production in turbulent bubble breakup. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 917:A40, 2021. [ DOI ]
    [mostert2020]

    Wouter Mostert and Luc Deike. Inertial energy dissipation in shallow-water breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 890:A12, 2020. [ DOI ]
    [ruth2019]

    Daniel J. Ruth, Wouter Mostert, Stéphane Perrard, and Luc Deike. Bubble pinch-off in turbulence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(51):25412–25417, 2019. [ DOI | arXiv | http ]

    (More to be added, as ever!)