Jacques Vanneste is a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, whose main research area is fluid dynamics. [1]
His particular research interest is in analytic methods for handling systems with dynamics on two distinct time or length scales. [2] This is relevant, for example, for the interaction between weather and ocean circulation, where fast inertial waves can be generated by slow underlying flows; see for example his work [3] on the tropopause, and his most-cited paper. [4] He is also interested in the dynamics of stirring. [5]
He is the recipient of the 2010 Adams Prize. [6] In 2014, Vanneste was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [7]
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