Computational Fluid Dynamics Expert Group
Numerical Simulation via CFD is a widespread investigation tool in almost all engineering sectors:
- Aerodynamics of aircrafts, helicopters, cars, trains, buildings
- Heat transfer in power plants, exchangers, turbines, combustors
- Transport and mixing processes
- Environmental flows, wind and waves, sediment transport, wind loads and building ventilation
Group members
Group Leader: Prof Dominique Laurence
Membership: Dr Yacine Addad, Dr Imran Afgan, Dr David D Apsley, Dr Flavien Billard, Dr Mark Cotton, Dr Tim Craft, Dr Antonio Filippone, Prof Hector Iacovides, Dr Amir Keshmiri, Prof Thierry Maitre, Dr Adel Nasser, Dr Robert Prosser, Dr Alistair Revell, Dr Stefano Rolfo, Prof Peter Stansby, Prof Ali Turan, Dr Juan Uribe, Dr Sergei Utyuzhnikov, Mr Matthew Yates
See: Project databases, project & personal pages
Our expertise
Within the Group there are various underpinning generic capabilities where individuals have international presence:
- Unstructured Finite Volumes for very complex geometries
- High accuracy methods for representation of turbulence (Direct & Large Eddy Simulations)
- Numerical issues resulting from local refinement, convection schemes, positivity of variables
- Code Friendly advanced RANS statistical models (stable and accurate on any complex grid)
- Coupling statistical (RANS) & deterministic (LES) methods via hybrid models or domain decomposition
- Synthetic turbulence for boundary conditions in Large Eddy Simulation
- High accuracy methods for acoustics, non reflecting boundary conditions
- Mobile geometries such as helicopter rotor- stabiliser interaction, large flow induced vibrations
- Gridless methods (SPH) for breaking waves, slug flow.
The Group has close collaborations with professional software developers: CD-Adapco, ANSYS-CFX, NUMECA, TELEMAC, and EDF Code_Saturne.
Examples of recent experimental and computational research in Heat and Fluid Flow.
This group contributes to the teaching of the MSc Course in Thermal Power and Fluids Engineering.
The study of Turbulence has a long tradition in Manchester, starting with Osborne Reynolds.