Jerome Neufeld

Professor of Earth and Planetary Fluid Dynamics
Earth Sciences; DAMTP
Fellow of Trinity College

Research Interests

Fluid dynamics of geological carbon storage

Consequences of subglacial hydrology on supraglacial lake drainage and the tidal modulation of ice streams

Solidification of magma oceans and the early generation of magnetic fields on planetary bodies

Erosive dynamics of idealised river systems

Emplacement and solidification of magmatic flows

Viscous tectonic mountain building

Publications

• Warburton, K.L.P., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. Shear dilation of subglacial till results in time-dependent sliding laws Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2023

• Sahu, C.K., and Neufeld, J.A. Experimental insights into gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2023

• Doyle, S.H., Hubbard, B., Christoffersen, P., Law, R., Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., Schoonman, C.M., Chudley, T.R., and Bougamont, M. Water flow through sediments and at the ice-sediment interface beneath Sermeq Kujalleq (Store Glacier), Greenland Journal of Glaciology 2022

• Holness, M.B., Nicoli, G., Rust, A., and Neufeld, J. The Microstructural Record of Convection in the Little Minch Sill Complex, Scotland Journal of Petrology 2022

• Holness, M.B., and Neufeld, J. The Microstructural Record of Emplacement, Inflation and Convection of Sills, Lava Flows and Lakes Journal of Petrology 2022

• Benham, G.P., Neufeld, J.A., and Woods, A.W. Axisymmetric gravity currents in anisotropic porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022

• Watson, C., Neufeld, J.A., and Michaut, C. Early asymmetric growth of planetary stagnant lids Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022

• Benham, G.P., Devauchelle, O., Morris, S.W., and Neufeld, J.A. Gunwale bobbing Physical Review Fluids 2022

• Nijjer, J.S., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. Horizontal miscible displacements through porous media: the interplay between viscous fingering and gravity segregation Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022

• Michaut, C., and Neufeld, J.A. Formation of the Lunar Primary Crust From a Long‐Lived Slushy Magma Ocean Geophysical Research Letters 2022

• Gilmore, K.A., Sahu, C.K., Benham, G.P., Neufeld, J.A., and Bickle, M.J. Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022

• Benham, G.P., Bickle, M.J., and Neufeld, J.A. Two-phase gravity currents in layered porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2021

• Landeau, M., Deguen, R., Phillips, D., Neufeld, J.A., Lherm, V., and Dalziel, S.B. Metal-silicate mixing by large Earth-forming impacts Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2021

• Benham, G.P., Bickle, M.J., and Neufeld, J.A. Upscaling multiphase viscous-to-capillary transitions in heterogeneous porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2021

• Dodds, K.H., Bryson, J.F.J., Neufeld, J.A., and Harrison, R.J. The Thermal Evolution of Planetesimals During Accretion and Differentiation: Consequences for Dynamo Generation by Thermally‐Driven Convection Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2021

• Liao, Y., Nimmo, F., and Neufeld, J.A. Heat Production and Tidally Driven Fluid Flow in the Permeable Core of Enceladus Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2020

• Warburton, K.L.P., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. Tidal Grounding‐Line Migration Modulated by Subglacial Hydrology Geophysical Research Letters 2020

• Gilmore, K.A., Neufeld, J.A., and Bickle, M.J. CO2 Dissolution Trapping Rates in Heterogeneous Porous Media Geophysical Research Letters 2020

• Butler, A.J.O., Meyer, C.R., and Neufeld, J.A. Deformation of an Elastic Beam on a Winkler Foundation JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME 2020

• Warburton, K.L.P., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. The elastic Landau–Levich problem on a slope Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2020

• Géraud, B.M.M., Neufeld, J.A., Holland, P.R., and Worster, M.G. Permeability measurements using oscillatory flows Experiments in Fluids 2020

• Sahu, C.K., and Neufeld, J.A. Dispersive entrainment into gravity currents in porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2020

• Bryson, J.F.J., Neufeld, J.A., and Nimmo, F. Constraints on asteroid magnetic field evolution and the radii of meteorite parent bodies from thermal modelling Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2019

• Nijjer, J.S., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. Stable and unstable miscible displacements in layered porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019

• Zheng, Z., and Neufeld, J.A. Self-similar dynamics of two-phase flows injected into a confined porous layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019

• Neufeld, J.A., Bryson, J.F.J., and Nimmo, F. The Top‐Down Solidification of Iron Asteroids Driving Dynamo Evolution Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2019

• Ball, T.V., Penney, C.E., Neufeld, J.A., and Copley, A.C. Controls on the geometry and evolution of thin-skinned fold-thrust belts, and applications to the Makran accretionary prism and Indo–Burman Ranges Geophysical Journal International 2019

• Dauck, T.-.F., Box, F., Gell, L., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. Shock formation in two-layer equal-density viscous gravity currents Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019

• Nicoli, G., Holness, M., Neufeld, J., and Farr, R. Microstructural evidence for crystallization regimes in mafic intrusions: a case study from the Little Minch Sill Complex, Scotland Contributions to mineralogy and petrology. Beitrage zur Mineralogie und Petrologie 2018

• Hewitt, D.R., Chini, G.P., and Neufeld, J.A. The influence of a poroelastic till on rapid subglacial flooding and cavity formation Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018

• Ball, T.V., and Neufeld, J.A. Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica Physical Review Fluids 2018

• Zheng, Z., Huppert, H.E., Vriend, N.M., Neufeld, J.A., and Linden, P.F. Flow of buoyant granular materials along a free surface Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018

• Cowton, L.R., Neufeld, J.A., White, N.J., Bickle, M.J., Williams, G.A., White, J.C., and Chadwick, R.A. Benchmarking of vertically-integrated CO2 flow simulations at the Sleipner Field, North Sea Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2018

• Box, F., Neufeld, J.A., and Woods, A.W. On the dynamics of a thin viscous film spreading between a permeable horizontal plate and an elastic sheet Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018

• Nijjer, J.S., Hewitt, D.R., and Neufeld, J.A. The dynamics of miscible viscous fingering from onset to shutdown Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018

• Holness, M.B., Neufeld, J.A., Gilbert, A.J., and Macdonald, R. Orientation of Tabular Mafic Intrusions Controls Convective Vigour and Crystallization Style Journal of Petrology 2017

• Box, F., Vella, D., Style, R.W., and Neufeld, J.A. Indentation of a floating elastic sheet: geometry versus applied tension Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2017

• Golding, M.J., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Two-phase gravity currents resulting from the release of a fixed volume of fluid in a porous medium Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017

• Ball, T.V., Huppert, H.E., Lister, J.R., and Neufeld, J.A. The relaxation time for viscous and porous gravity currents following a change in flux Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017

• Holness, M.B., Farr, R., and Neufeld, J.A. Crystal settling and convection in the Shiant Isles Main Sill Contributions to mineralogy and petrology. Beitrage zur Mineralogie und Petrologie 2017

• Cooray, H., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Maximal liquid bridges between horizontal cylinders Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2016

• Sayag, R., and Neufeld, J.A. Propagation of viscous currents on a porous substrate with finite capillary entry pressure Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016

• Cowton, L.R., Neufeld, J.A., White, N.J., Bickle, M.J., White, J.C., and Chadwick, R.A. An inverse method for estimating thickness and volume with time of a thin CO2‐filled layer at the Sleipner Field, North Sea Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 2016

• Hewitt, D.R., Nijjer, J.S., Worster, M.G., and Neufeld, J.A. Flow-induced compaction of a deformable porous medium Physical review. E 2016

• Pegler, S.S., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Stratified gravity currents in porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Balmforth, N.J. Shallow, gravity-driven flow in a poro-elastic layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2015

• Pegler, S.S., Bain, E.L., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Fluid invasion of an unsaturated leaky porous layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2015

• Lythgoe, K.H., Rudge, J.F., Neufeld, J.A., and Deuss, A. The feasibility of thermal and compositional convection in Earth’s inner core Geophysical Journal International 2015

• Pegler, S.S., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Fluid migration between confined aquifers Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. High Rayleigh number convection in a porous medium containing a thin low-permeability layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. High Rayleigh number convection in a three-dimensional porous medium Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014

• Pegler, S.S., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Fluid injection into a confined porous layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014

• Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. The Fluid Mechanics of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS, VOL 46 2014

• Lythgoe, K.H., Deuss, A., Rudge, J.F., and Neufeld, J.A. Earthʼs inner core: Innermost inner core or hemispherical variations? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2014

• Lister, J.R., Peng, G.G., and Neufeld, J.A. Viscous Control of Peeling an Elastic Sheet by Bending and Pulling Physical Review Letters 2013

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. Stability of columnar convection in a porous medium Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2013

• Pegler, S.S., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. Topographic controls on gravity currents in porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2013

• Golding, M.J., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J.A. The effects of capillary forces on the axisymmetric propagation of two-phase, constant-flux gravity currents in porous media Physics of Fluids 2013

• Huppert, H.E., Neufeld, J.A., and Strandkvist, C. The competition between gravity and flow focusing in two-layered porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2013

• Zhao, B., MacMinn, C.W., Szulczewski, M.L., Neufeld, J.A., Huppert, H.E., and Juanes, R. Interface pinning of immiscible gravity-exchange flows in porous media Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2013

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. Convective shutdown in a porous medium at high Rayleigh number Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2013

• MacMinn, C.W., Neufeld, J.A., Hesse, M.A., and Huppert, H.E. Spreading and convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in vertically confined, horizontal aquifers Water Resources Research 2012

• Hewitt, D.R., Neufeld, J.A., and Lister, J.R. Ultimate Regime of High Rayleigh Number Convection in a Porous Medium Physical Review Letters 2012

• Boait, F.C., White, N.J., Bickle, M.J., Chadwick, R.A., Neufeld, J.A., and Huppert, H.E. Spatial and temporal evolution of injected CO2 at the Sleipner Field, North Sea Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 2012

• ZIMOCH, P.J., NEUFELD, J.A., and VELLA, D. Leakage from inclined porous reservoirs Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011

• GOLDING, M.J., NEUFELD, J.A., HESSE, M.A., and HUPPERT, H.E. Two-phase gravity currents in porous media Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011

• ZIMOCH, P.J., NEUFELD, J.A., and VELLA, D. Leakage from inclined porous reservoirs Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011

• VELLA, D., NEUFELD, J.A., HUPPERT, H.E., and LISTER, J.R. Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 2. A line sink Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011

• NEUFELD, J.A., VELLA, D., HUPPERT, H.E., and LISTER, J.R. Leakage from gravity currents in a porous medium. Part 1. A localized sink Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011

• Neufeld, J.A., and Wettlaufer, J.S. Shear flow, phase change and matched asymptotic expansions: Pattern formation in mushy layers Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 2011

• Neufeld, J.A., Hesse, M.A., Riaz, A., Hallworth, M.A., Tchelepi, H.A., and Huppert, H.E. Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers Geophysical Research Letters 2010

• NEUFELD, J.A., GOLDSTEIN, R.E., and WORSTER, M.G. On the mechanisms of icicle evolution Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2010

• Leahy, M.J., Ennis-King, J., Hammond, J., Huppert, H.E., and Neufeld, J. Application of gravity currents to the migration of CO2 in heterogeneous saline formations GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES 9 2009

• NEUFELD, J.A., VELLA, D., and HUPPERT, H.E. The effect of a fissure on storage in a porous medium Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2009

• NEUFELD, J.A., and HUPPERT, H.E. Modelling carbon dioxide sequestration in layered strata Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2009

• SPANNUTH, M.J., NEUFELD, J.A., WETTLAUFER, J.S., and WORSTER, M.G. Axisymmetric viscous gravity currents flowing over a porous medium Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2009

• NEUFELD, J.A., and WETTLAUFER, J.S. An experimental study of shear-enhanced convection in a mushy layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2008

• NEUFELD, J.A., and WETTLAUFER, J.S. Shear-enhanced convection in a mushy layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2008

• NEUFELD, A., WETTLAUFER, J.S., FELTHAM, D.L., and WORSTER, M.G. Flow-induced morphological instability of a mushy layer - CORRIGENDUM Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2006