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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - SIAM Fellow For innovative combinations of analysis and computation to obtain fundamental insights into complex dynamics of spatially extended systems.
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For combining computation and dynamical systems analyses to obtain remarkable insights into hydrodynamic instabilities and patterns in diverse systems, including flow past a cylinder, channel flow, laminarturbulent bands, and thermal convection

Overview

Dwight Barkley is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans a range of fields including Engineering, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. More specifically, Barkley's work focuses on subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics covered in Barkley's publications include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Barkley illustrate involvement in studies on transitional turbulence and fluid flow dynamics. These include:

  • Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow, 2022, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Statistical transition to turbulence in plane channel flow, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Extreme events in transitional turbulence, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Patterns in transitional shear turbulence. Part 1. Energy transfer and mean-flow interaction, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Patterns in transitional shear turbulence. Part 2. Emergence and optimal wavelength, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Barkley frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably Sébastien Gomé, Laurette S. Tuckerman, Emanuele Zuccoli, Edward James Brambley, and Santiago Benavides. These partnerships have contributed to multiple publications spanning various research topics.

Publications by Barkley have appeared repeatedly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

Over the course of their career, Barkley has received awards recognizing contributions to computational and dynamical systems analyses in fluid dynamics. These awards include being named a SIAM Fellow in 2016 for work related to complex dynamics of spatially extended systems, and becoming a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for contributions to the understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities and patterns in various flow systems.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the wake of a circular cylinder

    Dwight Barkley;Ronald D. Henderson

  • The onset of turbulence in pipe flow

    Kerstin Avila;David Moxey;Alberto de Lozar;Marc Avila

  • A model for fast computer simulation of waves in excitable media

    Dwight Barkley

  • Three-dimensional instability in flow over a backward-facing step

    Dwight Barkley;M. Gabriela M. Gomes;Ronald Dean Henderson

  • Linear analysis of the cylinder wake mean flow

    Dwight Barkley

  • Spiral-wave dynamics in a simple model of excitable media: The transition from simple to compound rotation.

    Dwight Barkley;Mark Kness;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Euclidean symmetry and the dynamics of rotating spiral waves.

    Dwight Barkley;Dwight Barkley

  • Linear stability analysis of rotating spiral waves in excitable media.

    Dwight Barkley

  • Computational study of turbulent laminar patterns in couette flow.

    Dwight Barkley;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Direct optimal growth analysis for timesteppers

    Dwight Barkley;Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Spencer John Sherwin

  • Bifurcation Analysis for Timesteppers

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Convective instability and transient growth in flow over a backward-facing step

    Hugh Maurice Blackburn;Dwight Barkley;Spencer John Sherwin

  • Theoretical perspective on the route to turbulence in a pipe

    Dwight Barkley

  • The rise of fully turbulent flow

    Dwight Barkley;Baofang Song;Baofang Song;Baofang Song;Vasudevan Mukund;Grégoire Lemoult

  • Secondary instability in the wake of a circular cylinder

    Ronald D. Henderson;Dwight Barkley

  • Bifurcation analysis of the Eckhaus instability

    Laurette S. Tuckerman;Dwight Barkley

  • Simplifying the Complexity of Pipe Flow

    Dwight Barkley

  • Mean flow of turbulent-laminar patterns in plane Couette flow

    Dwight Barkley;Laurette S. Tuckerman

  • Distinct large-scale turbulent-laminar states in transitional pipe flow

    David C. Moxey;Dwight Barkley

  • Fast Simulations of Waves in Three-Dimensional Excitable Media

    Matthew Dowle;Rolf Martin Mantel;Dwight Barkley

  • Transient growth analysis of flow through a sudden expansion in a circular pipe

    Christopher Cantwell;Dwight Barkley;Hugh Blackburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Maurice Blackburn
Hugh Maurice Blackburn Monash University
Spencer J. Sherwin
Spencer J. Sherwin Imperial College London
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis Johns Hopkins University
Andrew M. Stuart
Andrew M. Stuart California Institute of Technology
Gernot Plank
Gernot Plank Medical University of Graz
Martin Golubitsky
Martin Golubitsky The Ohio State University
Alexander Smits
Alexander Smits Princeton University
Harry L. Swinney
Harry L. Swinney The University of Texas at Austin
George Em Karniadakis
George Em Karniadakis Brown University

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