Professor Colm Connaughton

Colm Connaughton

Office: D2.16

Phone: +44 (0) 24 7615 0863

Email: C dot P dot Connaughton at warwick dot ac dot uk

Teaching Responsibilities 2020/21:

Term 1: MA934 Numerical Algorithms and Optimisation

Term 2: MA932 MSc Research Study Groups

Research Interests:
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics and turbulence, nonlinear waves, interacting particle systems

I'm co-organising the Warwick EPSRC Mathematics Symposium in 2015-16 on the topic of Fluctuation-driven phenomena and large deviations.

Resources and contacts:

A full list of my publications can be found in my ResearcherID profile: E-8796-2011

Preprints on arxiv.org (automatically updated)

Presentations on slideshare.net (automatically updated)

More information can be found on my personal homepage www.colmconnaughton.net.

You can also find me on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Most recent publications:

C. Connaughton, S. Nazarenko and B. Quinn
Rossby and drift wave turbulence and zonal flows: The Charney–Hasegawa–Mima model and its extensions
Phys. Reports 604, 1–71 (2015)
Y.-X. Chau, C. Connaughton and S. Grosskinsky
Explosive condensation in symmetric mass transport models
J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp., 11 P11031 (2015)
N. Peremezhney, E. Hines, A. Lapkin and C. Connaughton
Combining Gaussian processes, mutual information and a genetic algorithm for multi-target optimization of expensive-to-evaluate functions
Eng. Optimization 46 (11), 1593-1607 (2014)
K. Harper, S. Nazarenko, S. Medvedev and C. Connaughton
Wave turbulence in the two-layer ocean model
J. Fluid Mech. 756, 309-327 (2014)
J. Harris, C. Connaughton and M.D. Bustamante
Percolation transition in the kinematics of nonlinear resonance broadening in Charney–Hasegawa–Mima model of Rossby wave turbulence
New J. Phys 15, 083011 (2013)

Most cited publications:

C. Connaughton, C. Josserand, A. Picozzi, Y. Pomeau and S. Rica ,
Condensation of Classical Nonlinear Waves,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263901 (2005)
C. Connaughton and S.V. Nazarenko,
Warm Cascades and Anomalous Scaling in a Diffusion Model of Turbulence,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (4): 044501, (2004)
C. Connaughton, S.V. Nazarenko and A.C. Newell,
Dimensional Analysis and Weak Turbulence,
Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena 184 (1-4): 86-97, (2003)
M. Chertkov, C. Connaughton, I. Kolokolov and V. Lebedev ,
Dynamics of Energy Condensation in Two-Dimensional Turbulence,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 084501 (2007)
C. Connaughton, S.V. Nazarenko and A.N. Pushkarev,
Discreteness and Quasiresonances in Weak Turbulence of Capillary Waves,
Phys. Rev. E 63 (4): 046306, (2001)

Other selected publications:

R.C. Ball, Colm Connaughton, P.P. Jones, R. Rajesh, and O. Zaboronski,
Collective oscillations in irreversible coagulation driven by monomer inputs and large-cluster outputs,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 168304, (2012)
R.C. Ball, C. Connaughton, T.H.M. Stein, and O. Zaboronski,
Instantaneous gelation in Smoluchowski’s coagulation equation revisited,
Phys. Rev. E 84 (1) 0111111, (2011)
C. Connaughton and A.C. Newell,
Dynamical scaling and the finite-capacity anomaly in three-wave turbulence,
Phys. Rev. E 81 (3) 036303, (2010)

Workshops/conferences/seminars:

2010/11: MIR@W organiser