In the 2023/2024 academic year Chris Keylock was in receipt of a Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship, which was spent in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Bayreuth and the Water Resources Engineering Group at the University of Texas at Austin.
The former was oriented towards new approaches to modelling the velocity gradient tensor in turbulent flows and two papers have been submitted based on this work (with Maurizio Carbone, now at the Institute for Complex Systems in Rome). The Austin visit was to lay the foundations for collaborative work at larger scales and discussions took place about undertaking joint work on fluid behaviour, plant motion and sediment entrainment. In addition to a seminar on fluid mechanics’ topics, Chris also gave a seminar in Austin on landscape scale geomorphology and terrain structure.
Another dimension to the project was to develop understanding across these scales and, as part of this, the group worked on a formal means of defining directionality in network representations of physical and engineering systems. This work was presented at the Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction conference in Loughborough in September.