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Thomas Peacock

Thomas Peacock

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Room 1-310D
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-258-0736  
Fax: 617-258-8744  
Email:
Web: http://web.mit.edu/endlab/

Administrative Contact:
Raymond Hardin
Room 1-310
Phone: 617-253-5328  
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Education

B.Sc. in Physics, Manchester University , 1994
D. Phil. in Physics, Oxford University, 1998
 

MIT Service

2008-present: Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

2007-2008:  ARCO Associate Professor in Energy, Mechanical Engineering

2005-2007: ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy, Mechanical Engineering

2003-2005: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering 

2000-2003: Instructor, Mathematics

 

Other related Experience

Mar2008-Jun2008: Visiting Professor, Mathematics, UBC

1998-2000:  Research Associate, University of Colorado

 

Research Interests

Internal Waves; Stratified Flows; Nonlinear Dynamics; Fluid Dynamics; Experimental Methods.

 

Teaching Interests

Mechanics; Nonlinear Dynamics; Fluid Dynamics; Experimental Techniques.

 

Consulting

Co-producer of Internal Waves Documentary for Discovery Science

 

Journal Publications

  1. Mullin, T. and Peacock, T., "Hydrodynamic instabilities in nematic liquid crystals under oscillatory shear," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 455, 2635-2653, 1999.
  2. Peacock, T. and Mullin, T., "Bifurcation phenomena in flows of a nematic liquid crystal," International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 9, 427-441. 
  3. Peacock, T. and Mullin, T., "From low- to high-dimensional dynamics in a microscopic fluid flow," Physical Review Letters, 82, 1446-1449, 1999.
  4. Peacock, T. and Mullin, T., "Homoclinic bifurcations in a liquid crystal flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 432, 369-386, 2000.
  5. Peacock, T. and Mullin, T., "The transition to turbulence in a microscopic fluid flow," Physics of Fluids, 12, S8, 2000. 
  6. Ma, Z.C., Bradley, E., Peacock, T., Hertzberg, J.R. and Lee, Y.C., "Solder assembled large MEMS flaps for fluid mixing," IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, 26, 268-276, 2003.
  7. Peacock, T., Bradley, E., Hertzberg, J. and Lee, Y.C., "Forcing a planar jet flow using MEMS," Experiments in Fluids, 37, 22-28, 2004.
  8. Peacock, T., Stocker, R. and Aristoff, J., "An experimental investigation of the angular dependence of diffusion-driven flow," Physics of Fluids, 16, 3503-3505, 2004.
  9. Blanchette, F., Peacock, T. and Bush, J.W.M., "The Boycott effect in magma chambers," Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L05611, 2004.
  10. Heitz, R., Peacock, T. and Stocker, R., "Optimizing diffusion-driven flow in a fissure," Physics of Fluids, 17, Art. 128104, 2005.
  11. Peacock, T. and Weidman, P., "The effect of rotation on conical wave beams in a stratified fluid," Experiments in Fluids, 39, 32-37, 2005.
  12. Peacock, T., Blanchette, F. and Bush, J.W.M., "The stratified Boycott effect," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 529, 33-49, 2005.
  13. Peacock, T. and Tabaei, A., "Visualization of nonlinear effects in internal wave beam reflection," Physics of Fluids, 17, Art. 061702, 2005.
  14. Yick, K.Y., Stocker, R. and Peacock, T., "Microscale Synthetic Schlieren," Experiments in Fluids, 42, 41-48, 2007.
  15. Mathur, M., Haller, G. Peacock, T., Ruppert-Felsot, J.E. and Swinney, H.L., "Uncovering the Lagrangian Skeleton on Turbulence," Physical Review Letters, 98, Art. 144502, 2007.
  16. Alford, M.H., MacKinnon, J.A., Zhao, Z., Pinkel, R., Klymak, J. and Peacock, T., "Internal waves across the Pacific," Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L24601, 2007.
  17. Peacock, T., Echeverri, P. and Balmforth, N.J.B., "Experimental investigation of internal tide generation by two dimensional topography," Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 235-242, 2008.
  18. Peacock, T. and Bradley, E., "Going with (or against) the flow," Science, 320, 1302-1303, 2008.
  19. Blanchette, F., Peacock, T. and Cousin, R., "Stability of a stratified fluid with a vertically moving sidewall," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 609, 305-317, 2008.
  20. Weldon, M., Peacock, T., Jacobs, G.B., Helu, M. and Haller, G., "Experimental and numerical investigation of the kinematic theory of unsteady separation," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 611, 1-11, 2008.
  21. Balmforth, N.J.B. and Peacock, T., "Internal tide generation by supercritical topography," Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 1965-1974, 2009.
  22. Yick, K.Y., Torres, C., Peacock, T. and Stocker, R., "Particle settling in a stratified fluid at low Reynolds number," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 632, 49-68, 2009.
  23. Echeverri, P., Flynn, M.R., Winters, K.B. and Peacock, T., "Low-mode inernal tide generation: an experimental and numerical investigation," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 638, 2009.
  24. Mathur, M. and Peacock, T., "Internal wave beam propagation in nonuniform stratifications," to appear in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009.
  25. Allshouse, M.R., Barad, M.F. and Peacock, T., "Sailing on diffusion," submitted to Nature, 2009.
  26. Peacock, T., Mercier, M., Didelle, H., Viboud, S. and Dauxois, T., "A laboratory study of internal tide scattering by supercritical topography," submitted to Physics of Fluids, 2009.
  27. Echeverri, P. and Peacock, T., "Internal tide generation by complicated topography," submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009.
  28. Echeverri, P., Yokossi, T., Balmforth, N.J. and Peacock, T., "Internal tide attractors in double ridge systems," submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009.
  29. Mercier, M., Martinand, D., Mathur, M., Gostiuax, L., Peacock, T. and Dauxois, T., "New (internal) wave generation," submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009.
  30. Tang, W.E. and Peacock, T., "Lagrangian coherent structures and internal tide attractors," submitted to CHAOS, 2009.

Honors and Awards

NSF CAREER Award in Physical Oceanography (2007)

Abkowitz International Travel Fellowship (2006)

ARCO Professorship in Energy (2005-2008)

ICTAM Travel Fellowship (2004)
APS Gallery of Fluid Motion (1999)
Royal Society Physics Research Award (1996)
Domus Scholarship, Oxford University (1995)
Samuel Bright Scholarship, Manchester University (1994)
Hatfield Scholarship, Manchester University (1993)

 

Memberships

American Academy of Mechanics

American Physical Society

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Geophysical Union

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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