Professor Peter Davies

Peter Davies studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, graduating with First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics (1966), a DipEd (1967) and a PhD (1971). He was awarded a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Royal Society tenable at the University of Stockholm and then spent 7 years as an RA at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1980 he moved to a Lectureship at Dundee and was awarded a Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics in 1995, the same year that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His main research areas lie in environmental, geophysical and physical fluid dynamics.

Professional Biography

• BSc (Hons) Physics and Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1966
• DipEd, 1967
• PhD, 1971

• Buoyancy-driven flows
• Rotating flows
• Turbulent mixing in stratified flows
• Wastewater disposal in estuarine and coastal waters
• Internal waves
• Turbulent jets and plumes

• Carr, M. & Davies, P.A. (2006) The motion of an internal solitary wave of depression over a fixed bottom boundary in a shallow two-layer fluid. Physics of Fluids 18, 1-10.
• Cuthbertson, A.J.S., Davies, P.A. & Guo, Y. (2006) Model study of the influence of submerged tidal barriers on estuarine mixing and exchange processes. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 132, 1033-1043.
• Davies, P.A., Wåhlin, A.K. & Guo, Y. (2006) Laboratory and analytical model studies of the Faroe Bank Channel deep-water outflow. Journal of Physical Oceanography 36, 1348-1364.
• Sveen, J.K., Guo, Y., Davies, P.A. & Grue, J. (2002) On the breaking of internal solitary waves at a ridge. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 469, 161-188.
• Boyer, D.L. & Davies, P.A. (2000) Laboratory studies of orographic effects in rotating and stratified flows. Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics 32, 165-202.

Prof Peter Davies

Division of Civil Engineering

University of Dundee

Nethergate

Dundee

DD1 4HN