Andrew W. Woods

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Andy Woods

FRS
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Andrew Woods at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born
Andrew William Woods

(1964-12-02) December 2, 1964 (age 58) [1]
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Bristol
University of California, San Diego
Thesis Geophysical fluid flows  (1989 [2] )
Doctoral advisor Herbert Huppert [3]
Doctoral students Silvana Cardoso [4]
Website www.bpi.cam.ac.uk/user/andy

Andrew William Woods (born 1964) [1] FRS [5] is BP Professor at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. [6]

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Education

Woods studied the Mathematical Tripos as an undergraduate student of St John's College, Cambridge and completed his PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) on geophysical fluid dynamics supervised by Herbert Huppert. [2] [7]

Career and research

Woods spent two years as a research fellow at St John's College and as a Green Scholar at the University of California, San Diego before taking up a lectureship for 5 years at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge. After three years as professor of applied mathematics at University of Bristol, he was appointed BP Professor and head of the BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

His work is characterised by the development of simplified mathematical and experimental models of complex fluid flow processes covering a wide range of phenomena from the dynamics of explosive volcanic eruptions, to geothermal power generation, carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery in heterogeneous porous rocks. His work on the dynamics of mixing in turbulent buoyant plumes and gravity currents has led to new insights about the ascent height of volcanic eruption columns and the run-out distance of pyroclastic flow, as well as constraints on the dynamics of hydrothermal and oil plumes in the deep sea. [8]

He has also developed fundamental understanding of ventilation flows in buildings, developing strategies to minimise heat loss associated with low-energy natural ventilation, as well as exploring the controls on the dispersal of air-borne infection. [5] Other work has included modelling the dynamics of traffic flows, to elucidate controls on the collective behaviour of individual vehicles and strategies to regulate the flow. [5]

Awards and honours

Woods was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. [5] He was the Stewartson Lecturer in 1999,[ citation needed ] the Bullerwell Lecturer in 2000,[ citation needed ] awarded the Wager Medal in 2002[ citation needed ] and the GFD Lecturer in 2003.[ citation needed ]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Andrew W. Woods at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Andrew W. Woods at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Andrew W. Woods at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2017). "Professor Andrew Woods FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” -- "Terms, conditions and policies | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-08-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. Andrew W. Woods publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. Woods, Andrew William (1989). Geophysical fluid flows. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   53517448. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.306472.
  8. Woods, A. W. (1988). "The fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of eruption columns". Bulletin of Volcanology . 50 (3): 169–193. Bibcode:1988BVol...50..169W. doi:10.1007/BF01079681. ISSN   0258-8900. S2CID   140193721.