Michael Waite
Associate Professor
Applied Mathematics
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Prof/Dr Michael Waite recived his PhD, McGill University.Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. My research area is geophysical turbulence. Broadly defined, turbulence is chaotic fluid flow with interactions across a wide range of length scales. In the atmosphere and ocean, the range of scales is huge: from millimetres to thousands of kilometres. Geophysical turbulence is influenced by buoyancy, the rotation of the Earth, and phase changes of water, and my research examines all of these effects.
Research Interest
Turbulence in rotating stratified fluids Vortices in stratified fluids Mesoscale atmospheric dynamics Tropical convection
Publications
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Waite ML. Stratified turbulence at the buoyancy scale. Physics of Fluids. 2011 Jun;23(6):066602.
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Waite ML, Khouider B. The deepening of tropical convection by congestus preconditioning. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2010 Aug;67(8):2601-15.
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Waite ML, Bartello P. The transition from geostrophic to stratified turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2006 Dec;568:89-108.
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Waite ML, Bartello P. Stratified turbulence dominated by vortical motion. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2004 Sep;517:281-308.
