DrChris Howland

I am an applied mathematician who uses and develops numerical methods for the simulation of turbulence in environmental and geophysical flows. In particular, I am interested in processes involving the interaction of buoyancy, turbulence and thermodynamic phase changes, and how these typically small-scale processes have an impact on larger systems such as the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere.

Application topics

• Ocean mixing
• Ice-ocean interaction
• Pore-scale solute transport in porous media
• Moist atmospheric convection

Numerical methods

• Direct numerical simulation
• Multiple-resolution techniques
• Finite-difference methods
• Pseudospectral methods
• Phase-field models
• Immersed boundary methods