{{Short description|British mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Use British English|date=November 2017}} '''Jacques Vanneste''' is a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, whose main research area is fluid dynamics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Jacques Vanneste {{!}} Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group |url=https://www.efdg.ed.ac.uk/people/jacques-vanneste |website=www.efdg.ed.ac.uk |access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref>
His particular research interest is in analytic methods for handling systems with dynamics on two distinct time or length scales.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~vanneste/research.shtml | title=Jacques Vanneste's research | accessdate=2010-05-12 }}</ref> This is relevant, for example, for the interaction between weather and ocean circulation, where fast inertial waves can be generated by slow underlying flows; see for example his work<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~vanneste/papers/tropopause.pdf | title = Quasi-geostrophic dynamics of a finite-depth tropopause | accessdate=2010-05-12}}</ref> on the tropopause, and his most-cited paper.<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Vanneste | first1=Jacques | last2=Yavneh | first2=Irad | year=2004 | title=Exponentially Small Inertia Gravity Waves and the Breakdown of Quasigeostrophic Balance | journal= Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | volume=61 | issue=2 | pages=211–223 | doi=10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0211:ESIWAT>2.0.CO;2| doi-access=free }}</ref> He is also interested in the dynamics of stirring.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~vanneste/papers/wcdps3.pdf | title=What controls the decay of passive scalars in smooth flows? | accessdate=2010-05-12| date=2005-07-01}}</ref>
==Awards== He is the recipient of the 2010 Adams Prize.<ref name="2010w">{{cite web | url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010022602 | title='Fluid Mechanics' work wins 2010 Adams Prize | date=2010-02-26 | accessdate=2010-02-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305090629/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010022602 | archive-date=5 March 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, Vanneste was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/jacques-vanneste/|title=Professor Jacques Vanneste FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-02-09|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web | title=Jacques Vanneste's Refereed Publications | website=School of Mathematics | url=https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~vanneste/publi_ref.shtml | ref={{sfnref | School of Mathematics}} | access-date=20 November 2022}}
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