Energy and Multiphysics Expert Group
The Energy and Multi-Physics group has six academic staff working on a wide range of research activities as the group name indicates.
The main research areas include aerodynamics, energy systems, combustion, heat transfer, spray and multiphase flows and thermochemical aspects of nano and bio systems.
Group members
Group Leader: Prof Ali Turan
Membership: Mr Dennis Cooper, Dr Amir Keshmiri, Prof Konstantinos Kontis, Mrs Laure A Pellet, Dr Robert Prosser, Dr Joao Quariguasi, Dr Alistair Revell, Dr Paul Watkins
The thematic and specific research areas the group members are involved in are:
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Atomisation
- Computational High-temperature Aerophysics
- Combustion
- Reacting flows
- Spray auto ignition
- Flame propagation
- Multi-phase problems
- Spray - wall interaction
- Medical inhalers
- Combustion Synthesized Nano Particulates
- Wavelet Methods for Reacting Flows
- Computational Chemistry
- Fuel Cells and Various Advanced Cycles including Co-Generation
- Chemical Processing and Reactor Design for Various Industries
Experimental research
- Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics
- Heat Transfer Measurement Techniques
- Thin Film Gauge Instrumentation
- Brush Seals
- Testing Jet Engine Turbine Components
- Bio-thermodynamics and bio-fluid mechanics
- Vehicle Aerodynamics
- Subsonic, Transonic, Supersonic and Hypersonic vehicles
- Flow Control
- Hydrodynamic instabilities
- Shock Wave related phenomena
- Pressure and Temperature Sensitive Paint systems
- LIF
- Acoustics and signal processing
- Advanced heat transfer sensors
- Flame acoustics
- Flame instability
- Flame and wall interactions
- High temperature heat transfer
- Laser based diagnostics
- Terahertz imaging
- Stereo imaging of flame diagnostics
- 3D flow visualisation and velocity measurement
Theoretical studies
- Combustion modelling
- Spray modelling
- Spray - wall interaction models
- Nano Particle Synthesis Modelling including nucleation, surface growth, coalescence, etc.
- Thermo-acoustic instability
- Advanced turbulence modelling
This group contributes to the teaching of the MSc Course in Thermal Power and Fluids Engineering.