
Philip Winchester
Status
Postgraduate Student
I am a final year DPhil student in OCIAM. My supervisors are Peter Howell and Vassilios Dallas.
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
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.