Philip Winchester

Status

Postgraduate Student

I am a final year DPhil student in OCIAM. My supervisors are Peter Howell and Vassilios Dallas.

Contact form

https://philipwinchester.github.io/

+44 1865 615147

Research groups

Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Recent publications

The onset of zonal modes in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection

Winchester, P Howell, P Dallas, V Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 939 (23 Mar 2022)

Zonal flow reversals in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Winchester, P Ntallas, V Howell, P Physical Review Fluids volume 6 (22 Mar 2021)

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

2019-2023: EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
2020-2022: Stipendium, Helsingborgs Handelsförening
2021: Scholarship, The Society of Swedish Engineers in Great Britain

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for undergraduate classes:

Part B: Applied Partial Differential Equations (MT 2019, 2021)
Part B: Viscous Flow (MT 2020)
Part C: Topics in Fluid Mechanics (MT 2020)

Research interests

My research is on fluid dynamics with applications to geoscience. At the moment, I am working on Rayleigh–Bénard convection at high Rayleigh number which will eventually lead to studies of the dynamo instability of the Earth's core. My approach to study these systems spans from theoretical methods to statistical analysis of large data sets from state-of-the-art numerical simulations performed on supercomputers.