Dr David W. Rees Jones
Director of Teaching
Senior Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 3715
- david.reesjones@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- 319 MI
- Location
- Mathematical Institute
Research areas
I use mathematical analysis and computational simulations to understand a wide range of geophysical and environmental fluid flows. I focus on situations in which melting and solidification are significant, such as the generation and transport of molten magma from deep within the Earth, and the formation of sea ice in the Polar Oceans. For further details about my research, please see my .
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in subduction-zone geodynamics at Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, working with and at the at the University of Oxford with . Subduction zones are a crucial part of the Earth’s tectonic system, which controls the cycling of volatile chemicals such as water and carbon on long geological timescales. We are developing physical models of the coupled fluid flow and thermal and chemical transport, and implementing these in open-source simulation code based on PETSc and available for community use. I am also working on physical models of reactive flow instabilities, which may explain the formation of tabular dunites in ophiolites.
I am also interested in the interaction between sea ice and fluid dynamics. Sea ice is a sensitive part of the climate system and is responding dramatically to Arctic warming. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford in the group of where I worked on frazil-ice formation. I studied Mathematics, leading to a PhD on convective flow within sea ice in the at the University of Cambridge, supervised by .
Selected publications
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Huang, M., Rudge, J. & Rees Jones, D. W., 1 Jun 2026, In: Geophysical Journal International. 245, 3, 23 p., ggag143.
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Rees Jones, D. W., 25 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1005, 31 p., A7.
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Rees Jones, D. W., Zhang, H. & Katz, R. F., Jul 2021, In: Geophysical Journal International. 226, 1, p. 582–609
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Rees Jones, D. W. & Rudge, J., 15 Jul 2020, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 542, 9 p., 116324.
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Horvat, C., Flocco, D., Rees Jones, D. W., Roach, L. & Golden, K. M., 17 Feb 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 4, e2019GL085956.
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Cerpa, N. G., Rees Jones, D. W. & Katz, R. F., 15 Dec 2019, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 528, 115845.
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Rees Jones, D. W. & Wells, A. J., 8 Jan 2018, In: The Cryosphere. 12, 1, p. 25-38 14 p.
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Rees Jones, D. W., Katz, R. F., Tian, M. & Rudge, J. F., 1 Jan 2018, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 481, p. 73-79 7 p.
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Horvat, C., Rees Jones, D. W., Iams, S., Schroeder, D., Flocco, D. & Feltham, D., 29 Mar 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 3, 8 p., e1601191.
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Worster, M. G. & Rees Jones, D. W., Jul 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 373, 2045, 13 p., 20140166.
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