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Wouter Mostert

Professor

Wouter Mostert PhD

Associate Professor

Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College

COLLEGE: Worcester College

Biography

Wouter Mostert earned his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2015, on the topic of hydrodynamic stability of magnetohydrodynamic implosions, with application to inertial fusion energy, and in the propagation of shock waves. As a postdoc, he continued in this work at Caltech, before moving to study breaking ocean waves at Princeton University. He continued with this research as an Assistant Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, before joining Oxford in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group.

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Research Interests

Wouter Mostert has interests in fluid mechanics, namely in air-sea interaction and flux of mass, momentum and energy primarily due to wave breaking, along with the associated dynamics of bubbles and droplets, which play a large role in these kinds of problems. He is further interested in the effects of ocean wave systems on sediment and pollutant transport, along with better understanding wave loadings on civil infrastructure.

His current interests are in understanding energy, bubble and droplet statistics in plunging breakers; in wind-driven spume generation processes in ocean waves; in the dissipative properties of shallow-water breakers and coastal wave systems; and the combined effects of wind, waves and storm surge on coastal infrastructure.

Most Recent Publications

Fragmentation of colliding liquid rims

Tang K, Adcock T & Mostert W (2024), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 987

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@article{fragmentationof-2024/5,
  title={Fragmentation of colliding liquid rims},
  author={Tang K, Adcock T & Mostert W},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={987},
  number={A18},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  year = "2024"
}

Bag film breakup of droplets in uniform airflows

Tang K, Adcock T & Mostert W (2023), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 970

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@article{bagfilmbreakupo-2023/8,
  title={Bag film breakup of droplets in uniform airflows},
  author={Tang K, Adcock T & Mostert W},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={970},
  number={A9},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  year = "2023"
}

Characterizing energy dissipation of shallow-water wave breaking in a storm surge

Boswell H, Yan G & Mostert W (2023), Physical Review Fluids, 8

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@article{characterizinge-2023/5,
  title={Characterizing energy dissipation of shallow-water wave breaking in a storm surge},
  author={Boswell H, Yan G & Mostert W},
  journal={Physical Review Fluids},
  volume={8},
  number={054801},
  publisher={American Physical Society},
  year = "2023"
}

Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence

Riviere A, Ruth DJ, Mostert W, Deike L & Perrard S (2022), Physical Review Fluids, 7(8)

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@article{capillarydriven-2022/8,
  title={Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence},
  author={Riviere A, Ruth DJ, Mostert W, Deike L & Perrard S},
  journal={Physical Review Fluids},
  volume={7},
  number={83602},
  publisher={American Physical Society},
  year = "2022"
}

High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production

Mostert W, Popinet S & Deike L (2022), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942

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@article{highresolutiond-2022/5,
  title={High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production},
  author={Mostert W, Popinet S & Deike L},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={942},
  number={A27},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  year = "2022"
}

Effects of surface tension on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in fully compressible and inviscid fluids

Tang K, Mostert W, Fuster D & Deike L (2021), Physical Review Fluids, 6(11)

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@article{effectsofsurfac-2021/11,
  title={Effects of surface tension on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in fully compressible and inviscid fluids},
  author={Tang K, Mostert W, Fuster D & Deike L},
  journal={Physical Review Fluids},
  volume={6},
  number={113901},
  publisher={American Physical Society},
  year = "2021"
}

Bubble deformation by a turbulent flow

Perrard S, Rivière A, Mostert W & Deike L (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920, a15

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@article{bubbledeformati-2021/8,
  title={Bubble deformation by a turbulent flow},
  author={Perrard S, Rivière A, Mostert W & Deike L},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={920},
  pages={a15},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = "2021"
}

Sub-Hinze scale bubble production in turbulent bubble break-up

Rivière A, Mostert W, Perrard S & Deike L (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 917, a40

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@article{subhinzescalebu-2021/6,
  title={Sub-Hinze scale bubble production in turbulent bubble break-up},
  author={Rivière A, Mostert W, Perrard S & Deike L},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={917},
  pages={a40},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = "2021"
}

Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: a journey through scales

Zhou Y, Williams RJR, Ramaprabhu P, Groom M, Thornber B et al. (2021), Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 423

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@article{rayleightaylora-2021/4,
  title={Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: a journey through scales},
  author={Zhou Y, Williams RJR, Ramaprabhu P, Groom M, Thornber B et al.},
  journal={Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena},
  volume={423},
  number={132838},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2021"
}

Inertial energy dissipation in shallow-water breaking waves

Mostert W & Deike L (2020), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 890, a12

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@article{inertialenergyd-2020/5,
  title={Inertial energy dissipation in shallow-water breaking waves},
  author={Mostert W & Deike L},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={890},
  pages={a12},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = "2020"
}

Bubble pinch-off in turbulence.

Ruth DJ, Mostert W, Perrard S & Deike L (2019), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(51), 25412-25417

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@article{bubblepinchoffi-2019/12,
  title={Bubble pinch-off in turbulence.},
  author={Ruth DJ, Mostert W, Perrard S & Deike L},
  journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
  volume={116},
  pages={25412-25417},
  year = "2019"
}

Spontaneous singularity formation in converging cylindrical shock waves

Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V (2018), Physical Review Fluids, 3(7), 071401

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@article{spontaneoussing-2018/7,
  title={Spontaneous singularity formation in converging cylindrical shock waves},
  author={Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V},
  journal={Physical Review Fluids},
  volume={3},
  pages={071401},
  publisher={American Physical Society (APS)},
  year = "2018"
}

Singularity formation on perturbed planar shock waves

Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V (2018), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 846, 536-562

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@article{singularityform-2018/7,
  title={Singularity formation on perturbed planar shock waves},
  author={Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={846},
  pages={536-562},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = "2018"
}

Magnetohydrodynamic implosion symmetry and suppression of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in an octahedrally symmetric field

Mostert W, Pullin DI, Wheatley V & Samtaney R (2017), Physical Review Fluids, 2(1), 013701

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@article{magnetohydrodyn-2017/1,
  title={Magnetohydrodynamic implosion symmetry and suppression of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in an octahedrally symmetric field},
  author={Mostert W, Pullin DI, Wheatley V & Samtaney R},
  journal={Physical Review Fluids},
  volume={2},
  pages={013701},
  publisher={American Physical Society (APS)},
  year = "2017"
}

Geometrical shock dynamics for magnetohydrodynamic fast shocks

Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V (2017), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 811, r2

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@article{geometricalshoc-2017/1,
  title={Geometrical shock dynamics for magnetohydrodynamic fast shocks},
  author={Mostert W, Pullin DI, Samtaney R & Wheatley V},
  journal={Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  volume={811},
  pages={r2},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
  year = "2017"
}
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