Thermal Power and Fluid Engineering MSc
Following the successful completion of the first part of the course, the students embark on a four-month research project. For each student the topic of the project is the same as the one chosen for the Research Planning unit, for which a literature survey and a research plan will have already been produced. Students have the opportunity to choose a project from a variety of research topics that reflect the range of expertise of the academics that contribute to the course.
Many of these projects would be related to on-going research programmes in one of the four research groups that support this course, namely the Advanced Flow Diagnostics, the Experimental Aerodynamics, the CFD, the Energy and Multi-Physics and the Turbulence Mechanics groups. A research project in industry is also sometimes possible. Flow animations that resulted from recent computational and experimental research projects. |
- A Study of Pollution Dispersion in an Isolated Two-Dimensional Street Canyon. Supervisor Prof D Laurence
- CFD Simulation of Interference Drag from a T-junction. Supervisor Dr A Filipone
- Wall functions for oscillating turbulent flow. Supervisor Dr A P Watkins
- LES simulation of cooling practices for improved turbine blade cooling for enhanced thermodynamic efficiency. Supervisor Prof A Turan
- Internal and external flow field of a pressure swirl atomizer with induced acoustic excitation. Supervisor Mr D Cooper
- Conjugate heat transfer in simplified turbine blades. Supervisors Prof H Iacovides and Mr D Cooper
- KK-1 Shock tube studies using surface flow mapping techniques (IND). Supervisor Dr K Kontis
- The Sensitivity of Synthetic Jets to Initial Conditions. Supervisor Dr M A Cotton
- The Prediction of Impingement Heat Transfer for Turbulent 2-Dimensional Slot-Jets. Supervisors Prof H Iacovides and Dr T J Craft
- The
Computation of Turbulent Buoyancy-Affected Flows Relevant to Nuclear
Reactor Cooling Applications. Supervisors Prof
H Iacovides and Dr
T J Craft
- CFD simulation of flow parallel to a heated rod bundle. Supervisor Prof D R Laurence